Re: Annoying issue with ERWIN

Ronnie Yours wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wasnt sure whether this is the right place for this question but then
> thought that this a a DBA forum and using ERWIN/Data modelling is an
> integral part of DBA's activity. Hope my thread is read/responded to.
>
> Now the question ...
>
> I am having a very annoying issue with ERWIN.
>
> I am trying to copy and paste objects (tables) from a current diagram layout
> into a new blank diagram. And when I try to do that it pops up a dialog box
> saying
>
> "You are inserting a non-unique Non-key: <column_name>
>
> in Entity Name : <entity_name>"
>
> and it has a disabled OK button and a cancel button.
>
> All you can do is keep hitting cancel for each column in the table you are
> trying to paste.
>
> Even though it pastes the tables correctly with all the columns, its very
> annoying.
>
> I looked around in the documentation and some newsgroups but without any
> help.
>
> It seems to pop up this dialog box for every column in every table you are
> trying to paste other than the unique ones.
>
> Has anybody faced this before.
>
> Is there a box I need to check/uncheck to suppress this.
>
> Please suggest.
>
> Please Note: i tried it on both ERWIN 3.5.2 and ERWIN 4.0
>
> Thanks
> Ronnie Yours

In 3.5.2 go to the menu Options ... Unique Names ... and set it to ALLOW.

I don't have 4.0 on this machien so I'm not sure where you set it for that version off the top of my head.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Oct 03 2002 - 10:35:54 CDT