The Relate Used-By Entity dialog box displays when the user chooses Relate Used-By Entity... from the Entity menu. The dialog box display is shown below:
Use the Relate Used-By and Relate Uses Entity dialog boxes to manually create relations between entities (this is done automatically, in many cases).
The entity upon which attention is currently focused is shown at the top of this dialog box, under Entity Name:
When you add a super relation property to an item in the Entity list box, that entity comes to "use" or to depend upon the entity named in Entity:, above. By adding a super relation to an entity, you ensure that the super-related entity will be flagged, if ever the now sub-related entity changes or is destroyed.
Press F1 at each control for help in understanding how to fill in the requested data, or select the control from the following list:
| Type/Class | Text after the Type/Class: prompt shows which type or type of class category of entities has been selected, not just highlighted. To select, place the highlight line on a type or class, and double-click. |
| Entity (list box) | The contents of this list box are entities within the type and class specified in the Type/Class list box. Each name here is the valid identifier by which this entity is known within the specified type and class. For example, when the entity is at the column level, it must be qualified by its table name, because column names can be shared among tables. That means that a valid column name could be shared by several tables. |
| Related Entities | The repository entities listed in this box are related to the one specified in the Entity prompt. If this is the Related Uses dialog box, then the listed entities use the single name entity. If this is the Relate Used-By dialog box, then the listed contents are used by the single named entity. |
