New Core Features v16.0

The code underpinning the PowerDesigner interface has been rewritten to provide a contemporary look and feel.

In environments with a repository, administrators can deploy an enterprise glossary of terms approved for use in your environment to a special repository folder, which pushes the glossary to users to help ensure enterprise-wide consistency.

Users automatically receive updates to the glossary whenever they connect to the repository. The glossary is displayed in the Browser Glossary tab and, when enabled in a model, provides auto-completion for object names and codes, and model checks to measure and encourage glossary compliance.

In environments with a repository, administrators can deploy an enterprise library of reference models to a special repository folder, which pushes them to users to help ensure enterprise-wide consistency.

Users automatically receive updates to the library models whenever they connect to the repository. The library is displayed in a special folder in the Browser Local tab, and users can create shortcuts to and replications of these enterprise objects in their project models.

In environments with a repository, administrators can now use powerful profiles to customize and simplify the PowerDesigner interface for different kinds of users.

You can develop object permissions profiles to hide models, objects, and properties, or make models available in read-only form. In addition, you can develop UI and general preferences profiles to set defaults for menus, toolbars, and toolboxes, options and preferences.

These profiles are associated with users and groups in the repository and pushed to users to provide role-based customization of the PowerDesigner environment.

Enhancements to impact analysis now allow you to launch an analysis from a local model and continue finding connected objects in models stored in the repository. You can also lauch an analysis on any object in the repository or from the PowerDesigner Portal.

External shortcuts from one model to another now display all the properties of their source object, even when its model is closed or unavailable.

Extended dependencies are renamed as "traceability links". The new links allow you to create links between any kinds of object, to specify new types of links, and to group links by object type or by link type in the Traceability Links tab of each object property sheet.