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Creating Entity Relationship Diagrams


You can create entity relationship diagrams that represent your business. ERDs include business entities, entity attributes, and the type of relationship (1:1, 1:M, M:M) that exists between entities. Examples of common business entities include accounts, contacts, and addresses.

This task is a step in Process of Creating and Binding Entity Relationship Diagrams.

To create entity relationship diagrams

  1. In the Object Explorer, select the Entity Relationship Diagram object type.
  2. In the Entity Relationship Diagrams list, right-click, and then choose New Record.
  3. Enter a Name and associate a Project to the new record.

    A project must be locked to be able to enter it in the Project field.

    For more information about projects, see Using Siebel Tools.

  4. Right-click and choose Edit Entity Relationship Diagram.

    The Entity Relationship canvas and shape palette appears.

  5. Drag and drop Entity shapes from the palette to the canvas.
  6. Drag and drop the desired Relationships (1:1, 1:M, M:M) from the pallet to the canvas, positioning the ends of the relationship lines on entity shape connector points.

    NOTE:  When a relationship line is selected in the ERD canvas, the Entity Physical Relations list appears. This list is populated after binding relationships to Links and Joins. See Binding Relationships to Links or Joins.

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