Re: Annoying issue with ERWIN

Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the response. I checked my 3.5.2 version and the parameter is set to "allow", but still the problem is there.

also I cannot seem to find where to check for it in version 4.0

Has somebody used 4.0 and tell me where it is.

Thanks
Ronnie Yours

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3D9C63C1.2B056E9B_at_exesolutions.com...
> 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 - 15:31:59 CDT