About the Entity Relationship Designer

The Entity Relationship Designer is a visual design tool that you can use to create an entity relationship diagram (ERD). You then map the entities and relationships in the diagram to objects in the Siebel repository, such as business components, links, joins, and so on. The Entity Relationship Designer includes the following capabilities:

• An environment to create an ERD to relocate objects.

• Various edit and layout options, such as aligning shapes, moving shapes, and modifying text.

The Entity Relationship Designer provides the following benefits:

• Filters the list of objects that you choose when you bind entities and relations to Siebel objects. The list includes only the objects that support the context that the ERD represents. If no business components are suitable for binding, then you can open a wizard in the Entity Relationship Designer to assist you with creating a new business component.

• Allows you to use the crows feet diagraming format to define relationships between entities.

• Requires less work to define requirements for the data objects layer.

• Improves your ability to trace configuration modifications back to data object layer requirements.

• Creates a permanent record of entity relationship design in the Siebel repository.