Chapter 2 Getting Started with PowerDesigner

PowerDesigner Documentation

The following manuals are provided with your PowerDesigner installation:

• New Features Summary
• Installation Guide
• Core Features Guide
• Requirements Modeling
• Enterprise Architecture Modeling
• Business Process Modeling
• Data Modeling
• Information Liquidity Modeling
• Object-Oriented Modeling
• XML Modeling
• Working with the Repository
• Generating for Application Servers and Frameworks
• Customizing and Extending PowerDesigner

These manuals are provided in the following formats:

• Online help - Available from within PowerDesigner by selecting the Help menu, by typing F1, or by clicking HELP on selected screens.
• Online documentation - Available at: http://sybooks.sybase.com/pd.html
• PDF Manuals - can be installed with PowerDesigner and are also available for download at: http://sybooks.sybase.com/pd.html

Videos

Demonstration videos are also available. They can be installed with PowerDesigner (see Help menu) or viewed from the installation CD.

API Documentation

Click Help→Technical Documents→PowerDesigner Scripting Object Help to access the PowerDesigner API documentation.

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