PowerDesigner provides default model checks to verify the validity of inheritances.
Check |
Description and Correction |
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Name/Code contains terms not in glossary |
[if glossary enabled] Names and codes must contain only approved terms drawn from the glossary.
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Name/Code contains synonyms of glossary terms |
[if glossary enabled] Names and codes must not contain synonyms of glossary terms.
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Name/Code uniqueness |
Object names must be unique in the namespace.
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Existence of inheritance link |
An inheritance must have at least one inheritance link, from the inheritance to the parent entity.
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Incomplete inheritance with ungenerated ancestor |
[LDM only] If an inheritance is incomplete, the parent should be generated because you can lose information.
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