Good point Carey - thanks.
Carey Matthew Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > yea.. but.... > > ARS does not use many (any?) RDBMS level relationships between the tables. > Visio would only be able to produce a list of tables with the columns > based on the ARS ODBC driver (which would be field DB names, not > labels). > Visio would not show you what data is pushed/pulled from table to > table because all of that logic is in ARS workflow objects (AL, FL, > ES, MN, etc) that are completely transparent to the ARS ODBC driver. > > Sure you could start with a Viso diagram with 100's of tables with > 1000's of fields, but then you have to link/collect/collate the > relationships from there. I guess it would save you some time, but it > hardly meets the description of "to draw a diagram/flow chart from > integrating with ARS" IMHO. > > > Tools like Master Documentor, Remedy Developer Plus, Panacea, etc... > are more what I think everyone/anyone really need. "Anything else > would be uncivilized." :) (Again quoting a TV commercial tag line. > There appears to be a large number of those stuck in my head. Hum.... > ) > > -- > Carey Matthew Black > Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) > ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) > > Solution = People + Process + Tools > Fast, Accurate, Cheap.... Pick two. > Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. > > > > On 7/16/06, Roger Medsker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Visio will allow you to reverse engineer a database. It seems to me you > > could do this with Visio 2002 but I no longer have that version so can't > > verify. Visio 2003 will do it. As Herb said create a new drawing using the > > Database Model Diagram template. That adds a "Database" menu. Choose > > Database -> Reverse Engineer. This starts a wizard that will allow you to > > connect to any ODBC compliant database and Visio will create database > > entities for each table you choose. > > > > Roger Medsker > > Bluestem Consulting Group LLC > > Office: 319-354-0413 Mobile: 319-400-2828 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _____________________________________________________________________________ __ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org > -- _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org
