Name and Code format properties

Chapter 6 Managing Models

Name and Code format properties

The following options are available for formatting names and codes:

Option	Description
Display Name	Displays the names of objects in the interface
Display Code	Displays the codes of objects in the interface
Enable name/code conversions	Enables the use of conversion scripts and conversion tables to generate a code from a name or a name from a code. See section Name and code conversion scripts
Naming Template	Specifies a template for name and code format
Maximum Length	Maximum number of characters. In a PDM, this maximum number of characters can come from the Registry (if you defined a Maximum length and clicked the Set As Default button) or from the DBMS definition file. If a maximum length is declared in both the Registry and the DBMS, PowerDesigner uses the length with higher constraint. For example, in the case where the Registry = 128 and the DBMS = 30, PowerDesigner uses 30 characters for maximum length
Character Case	Indicates authorized character cases: Uppercase, Lowercase, and Mixed Case
Valid Characters	List of authorized characters. You can specify a single character or character string in quotation marks. For example: "a", "xyz" You can specify an interval of characters between single quotation marks separated by a dash. For example: 'a'-'z' 'a'-'z', 'A'-'Z', '0'-'9' By default, PowerDesigner allows the following valid characters for codes: 'a'-'z','A'-'Z','0'-'9',"_"
All Valid	Accepts all characters.
Invalid Characters	List of unauthorized characters. By default, PowerDesigner defines the following invalid characters for names: "+-*/\.,!:;"
No Accents	Removes accents from accented characters.
Default Character	Character used to replace any invalid characters entered.