Chapter 10 Comparing and Merging Models

Selecting merge actions in the model to be merged

You can select or deselect merge actions in the pane of the model to be merged, using:

To do so, you right-click an object or a category in the pane of the model to be merged and select the Select or Deselect command to open the sub-menu of the merge actions.

By default, all creation, modification and move actions are selected in the model to be merged, deletion actions are not selected.

Note   Consolidated and generated models
For consolidated models, the merge actions selected by default depend on the latest modifications saved in the model. For generated models, if the Preserve modification generation option was selected, they depend on the modifications saved in the model to be merged.

The following selection tools from the merge toolbar:

Tool Description

Select all merge actions. Click the arrow to select all of one kind of merge action.

Clear all merge actions. Click the arrow to deselect all of one kind of merge action.

Merging object properties

PowerDesigner lets you select individual object properties to merge.

Note   Comparison of property values
You can double-click a property in the property comparison part to display differences between models. When a line is added the following symbol is displayed >>, when a line is deleted, the following symbol is displayed <<.

Steps To select properties to merge:

  1. Select objects with different definitions in the object comparison part of the Merge window.
  2. Select or clear the check boxes corresponding to the properties you want to merge in the properties comparison part of the Merge window.

    By default, the diverging properties are selected in the list:

 

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