Project Explorer

Using the Project Explorer feature in erwin Data Modeler, you can now bring multiple data models in your enterprise applications together and manage them as a single project. All models and objects in the project are stored at one location of your choice. You can also choose to save the entire project in erwin Mart, which enables online team collaboration, data governance, and consistency for the project.

Projects eliminate the need for loading and managing required models separately. Instead, it provides you with a single, unified project metadata file using which you can launch, organize, and manage project objects.

Project Explorer Pane

The Project Explorer can be located on the erwin DM user interface as a dedicated pane as well as a ribbon tab. The Project Explorer pane provides an organized view of your project and the objects in it. All physical and logical models in projects are arranged as Source (Parent) models and Target (Child) models. There are no constraints on the number of models in a project. You can have multiple source models in the project, and multiple target models under each source model. You can further organize your models using folders and subfolders.

By default, this pane opens on the left-side of the application. You can also access it via View > Panes > Project Explorer Pane on the ribbon.

The models that have connection parameters configured for reverse engineering are indicated using a green check mark. The below screenshot displays the a green check mark on the modes with configured connection parameters.