[Implemented] Copy entity name to association alias in Association Wizard

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asked Jan 21, 2013 in Solved by jwagner (3,630 points)
edited Jul 25, 2014 by Martin Freki Stradej

Title says it all: It would be great to have a button to simply copy the name of the entity to the association alias.

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commented Jan 21, 2013 by ludek.vodicka Skipper developer (140,450 points)
edited Jan 21, 2013 by ludek.vodicka

It shouldn't be hard to create such logic. I'm thinking if owner alias should be pasted as singular form or try to add "s" / "es" to the end of alias.

commented Jan 21, 2013 by ludek.vodicka Skipper developer (140,450 points)

The best way will be add "s" based on association type. Only problem is that default value isn't specified. So another improvement will be choose default association type as one-to-many and parent required.

commented Jan 21, 2013 by ludek.vodicka Skipper developer (140,450 points)

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commented Jan 21, 2013 by jwagner (3,630 points)

This should be a configuration option imho. In some projects we use pluralization, in others we do not. Then sometimes we use German in the data model and that has totally different rules, an "s" as a suffix is usually not enough then.
But adding a plural S is not too much trouble when "CustomerSpecificContactWayForReport" is already auto-copied. ;)

commented Jan 21, 2013 by ludek.vodicka Skipper developer (140,450 points)

Ok, no problem with customization ;-)

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and Many to Many wizard dialog:

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Will be available in the next release.

commented Jan 21, 2013 by jwagner (3,630 points)

Wow, nice! That was fast.

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answered Jan 21, 2013 by ludek.vodicka Skipper developer (140,450 points)
selected Jan 22, 2013 by jwagner
 
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This feature is implemented in latest version 2.1.7.680. You can download this version here http://support.orm-designer.com/31/download-orm-designer2-here

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