PowerDesigner is a graphical enterprise modeling solution supporting standard methodologies and notations and providing automated code reverse engineering and generation through customizable templates. It provides a scalable enterprise repository solution with strong security and versioning capabilities to aid multi-user development, powerful reporting capabilities, and is highly extensible.
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The Browser - displays your models and the objects belonging to them (see The Browser). The Browser also allows you to view a PowerDesigner repository (see The Repository) and may display an enterprise library of shared models (see The Library) and an enterprise glossary (see The Glossary).
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The Canvas - is a tabbed view that displays your open diagrams (see Diagrams) and report outlines (see Reports).
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The Toolbox - displays graphical tools to help you quickly build model diagrams. The available tools depend on the type of the currently selected diagram (see Creating Objects from the Toolbox).
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The Result List - displays the results of a search or a model check.
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The Output view - (grouped, above, with the Result List) displays the progress of any PowerDesigner process, such as checking a model or generating or reverse engineering a database.
For information about moving, docking, grouping, splitting, and hiding these views, see Organizing Views.
- Object property sheets - which permit you to view and edit the object's properties. You can access an object's property sheet by double-clicking its symbol or browser entry, or right-clicking it and selecting Properties (see Object Properties).
- Object lists - provide a spreadsheet-like presentation of, and allow for the easy creation and modification of objects in your model. Lists are available under the Model menu and on the property sheets of composite objects such as entities, tables, and classes, which contain sub-objects (see Object Lists).