Project Explorer

The Project Explorer provides an organized, ordered view of your projects and the objects within them. You can use the Project Explorer to create new projects or edit existing projects by adding new models and modifying current models in the project.

In the Project Explorer pane, data models can be organized within or outside folders and subfolders. You can have as many folders and subfolders as you require, but you can have only one level of subfolder inside a folder. Depending on your requirement, projects are saved to your mart or local machine in the same structure as specified in the Project Explorer pane.

Models in Project Explorer are arranged as Source (parent) models and Target (child) models, indicated by unique icons. You can create multiple target models under a source model. Source models can be physical models or logical models. However, the target models must either be a Logical-Physical or Physical model.

When you make changes to a model in the Project Explorer, the changes are immediately updated in the diagram window. For example, if you rename a model in the Project Explorer, the new name replaces the existing model name in the diagram window.

The models that have connection parameters configured for reverse engineering are indicated using a green check mark.

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.

Using the Project Explorer, you can perform the following actions:

Create folders

Import models

Import models from Mart

Reverse engineer models

Create source models

Create target models

Derive target models

Additionally, the Project Explorer provides you with options to work on projects, such as:

New Project