Enchanging data from PowerDesigner

Classic Servoy
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Reverse engineering of Power Designer is great but…

Is it possible to make a model of PowerDesigner readable by other applications?
I can’t even make it readable to previous versions of PD…

Is there a way to exchange those model? Or to open them with a sort of reader?

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Ric,

What sort of applications would you like to move it to?

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Michael Mooney:
Ric,

What sort of applications would you like to move it to?

Anything can read it and interact with the model. The only way to make it available to a colleague was printing a pdf, which of course is not a very versatile solution.
No way to use it with Toad, Omnigraffle or whatever?

And: is it my impression or the current version of PD is not able to export in a format readable by PowerDesigner 11?

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Ric,

http://www.informatica.com/products/pow … efault.htm or metaintegration.net are two options but they can be very pricey and not suitable for smaller projects (due to the cost).

Maybe check out:

  1. looking through some of the tools at http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/um … mpany.html

  2. flipping ddl’s out to a target intermediary db and then pull out another visual model via reverse engineering (intermediate → target model tool). While I use (and don’t mind) PD I have never been a great fan of how they handle the GUI or visual model import/export or even their reporting tools. Sometimes it simply is easier to blow out the create scripts from PD to sql create scripts and pull into target, tweak the GUI and away you go. Again, this is target tool dependent. I agree - PDF is only good for a visual representation and that’s about it. Also CA’s ERWIN and PD have some back and forth.

  3. rolling out via UML: consider utilizing XML schema integration methods. PD is UML friendly. Visio (psst - don’t tell the Linux admin’s around here) also has some tools to work with.

  4. finally, with Eclipse and Servoy 4.0, consider utilizing some of the Eclipse/UML things out there

Michael

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Michael Mooney:
Ric,

http://www.informatica.com/products/pow … efault.htm or metaintegration.net are two options but they can be very pricey and not suitable for smaller projects (due to the cost).

Maybe check out:

  1. looking through some of the tools at http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/um … mpany.html

  2. flipping ddl’s out to a target intermediary db and then pull out another visual model via reverse engineering (intermediate → target model tool). While I use (and don’t mind) PD I have never been a great fan of how they handle the GUI or visual model import/export or even their reporting tools. Sometimes it simply is easier to blow out the create scripts from PD to sql create scripts and pull into target, tweak the GUI and away you go. Again, this is target tool dependent. I agree - PDF is only good for a visual representation and that’s about it. Also CA’s ERWIN and PD have some back and forth.

  3. rolling out via UML: consider utilizing XML schema integration methods. PD is UML friendly. Visio (psst - don’t tell the Linux admin’s around here) also has some tools to work with.

Thanks a lot, Michael

One of these options will certainly do the job :-)

Michael Mooney:
4) finally, with Eclipse and Servoy 4.0, consider utilizing some of the Eclipse/UML things out there

Michael

Well, at the moment the flux capacitor of my De Lorean is out of order, so I’m afraid I will have to wait until dev team makes Servoy 4 available for testing ;-)

Again, thanks for all those precious inputs.

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Michael Mooney wrote:

  1. finally, with Eclipse and Servoy 4.0, consider utilizing some of the Eclipse/UML things out there

Michael

Well, at the moment the flux capacitor of my De Lorean is out of order, so I’m afraid I will have to wait until dev team makes Servoy 4 available for testing

I don’t think you have to wait. The only thing, I think, Michael referred to that with Servoy working on the Eclipse platform would make it easier to grab some of the available uml tools. So, imho, there is no need to wait :)

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IT2Be:
I don’t think you have to wait. The only thing, I think, Michael referred to that with Servoy working on the Eclipse platform would make it easier to grab some of the available uml tools. So, imho, there is no need to wait :slight_smile:

Got it. Good suggestion: thanks to both :slight_smile:

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Yup, Marcel caught my drift with Eclipse … best with your project, Ric!