Just had to debug a fairly large model that I am not intimately familiar
with, that used inheritance (entity inheritance as well as multiple
custom superclasses) and it was rather hard to understand the overall
structure.
This is the case for most users: they have to use, understand and extend
the model
from other designer/architect/senior developer (at least in commercial
projects).
Wonder if we should create an alternative tree view
+1 for a treeview, but IMHO there's no need to be "alternative", but
to be displayed in the same structure, and also have the attributes too,
like in this screenshot (the tree only):
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12403124/CM+-+Data+Browse+1.png
A simple setting (and shortcut) could toggle this "detailed" tree to
show all attributes (and super classes) instead of just the entity names
as tree nodes.
IMHO this also overlaps with the:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-217
and
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-155
since there this detailed tree would be also required.
Adrian.
