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Importing an Entity (LDM) from a Excel file

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Hi,

 

today I have a very simple question (I believe)

 

I'm trying to import an Entity (for test purposes only one, but I assume I can have more ...) from a Excel spreadsheet into PowerDesigner LDM Model.

 

If the powerDesigner help I can find a recomendation to put all the Table/Entity attributes as a colleciton separated by an "," ... or whatever.

 

SyBooks Online

 

What in case I have such structure:

excel.JPG

This is by far more user friendly, that putting everything as a list separated by "," ... And this is also how PD extracts the attributes into Excel.

 

Is there a way how this can be done? It took me already like an hour by try to set up the Excel import in a way this structure could be imported ... but without success.

 

Any ideas how to do that?

 

I'm using the standard File -> Import -> Excel File ... funcitonality.

 

Or maybe like this ... as described in the help.

 

I'm defining an Excel containint 2 sheets ... the firs one to represent the Entities and the second one to represent the Entity Attributes:

 

excel2.JPG

 

But when importing, it imports only the data frm the fistr sheet ... I know, the sheet name should refere to the class I"m trying to import to ...

 

I was already trying to change the name to Entity.Entity Attribute because this is what I can find in PD:

 

excel3.JPG

 

I have even tryed to define the import mapping by my own ...

 

excel4.JPG

But doing it like that it say's "The import of a sub-object requires a  column"

 

No matter what I do ... it's still not working ... so the question: what am I doing wrong?

 

We are running 16.5 SP02 PL04

 

Regards,

Rafal


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