Chapter 12 Migrating from Previous Versions

Extracting Multiple Models in MetaWorks 6.1.5

MetaWorks version 6.1.5 offers special extraction features to let you:

Extract all the projects of a dictionary
Extract a project with all the models it contains
Extract all the models of the same type in a selected project

You can use the multi-model extraction to recover a dictionary or part of it in order to migrate it to the PowerDesigner repository.

Extraction parameters

You can define the following parameters in the Multi-Model Extraction dialog box:

Parameter	Description
Project Name	Name of the project to extract, you can select All to extract the entire dictionary
Model Type	Type of model existing in the selected project
Use File Name or Code	Uses the name or the code of the model to create a file with the corresponding extension
Directory	Destination directory

All models are extracted in a target directory. You can use the script FromDirectoryToRepository.vbs located in the \VB Scripts folder to consolidate in update mode the content of this directory in the repository.

For more information on VB scripts, see section Accessing objects using VBScript in chapter Managing Objects in the General Features Guide .