Customizing the User Interface

This section contains the following topics

Customize Toolbars

Customize Display Levels

Customize Toolbars

Configure your work environment to display or hide a toolbar or display or hide the options on a toolbar. You can create a toolbar and can add only the options that you use frequently. You can also modify an existing toolbar to display or hide a subset of icons. For example, if you rarely use the underline and strikeout text formatting options on the Formatting Toolbar, you can hide those options.

Similarly, you can dock a toolbar in a specific position or keep it floating and move it as you want.

Follow these steps:

  1. To modify an existing toolbar, follow these steps:
    1. Click the arrow-down icon on the icon toolbar that you want to customize.
    2. Select Add or Remove Buttons, <icon toolbar name> to display the currently selected icons.

      Your changes are reflected immediately in the erwin Data Modeler Workspace.
  2. To create a toolbar, follow these steps:
    1. Click Tools, Customize.
      The Customize dialog opens.
    2. Go to the Toolbars tab and click New.
    3. Enter the name for your new toolbar.
      This text displays in the title bar for the new toolbar, when you select to undock it.
    4. Click OK.
      Your new toolbar name appears in the list of toolbars in the Customize dialog.
    5. Select the toolbar name, then click the Commands tab.
    6. Select a category, and drag the command icon out of the dialog to your new toolbar.
      Your new toolbar is populated with the commands that you choose.

Customize Display Levels

The Display Toolbar includes the options to change the display levels in your model. The following display levels are available:

  • Entity or table
  • Primary key
  • Keys
  • Attribute or column
  • Comments

Display level is changed to suit the type of model being created or the audience for whom the model is being presented.

You can change the display level in two ways:

  • Select an object or a group of objects, then click the desired icon to apply the display setting to those objects.
  • Do not select any objects, then click the icon to apply the display setting to the entire diagram. If you have already set display options for individual objects, you can override those settings for the entire diagram with this option.