New Core Features v16.5
PowerDesigner v16.5 includes new core features available for all models.
- The synchronized Design and Outline views allow you to work on the detailed content and formatting of report elements in the context of the overall structure.
- Extensions are handled seamlessly in the Toolbox and other views.
- Report item, content and format editing are simplified and easily accessible through the Design view command bar, and changes are instantly visible.
- Titles and free text paragraphs are editable directly in the Design view.
- HTML generation is rebuilt to provide a modern, easily-configurable output.
To allow you time to experiment with the new format and editor, and to migrate your existing reports at your chosen pace, this version of PowerDesigner will continue to support the legacy Report Editor, which is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. This release provides the option to create reports in the new or legacy format, and a simple one-click upgrade is provided to convert existing reports to the new format.
- Core Features Guide > Modeling with PowerDesigner > Reports
The new Submit permission provides administrators with finer control over changes to repository documents. Users with this permission, which can be set on a repository folder or model, are required to check their changes into a change list to be reviewed by one or more reviewers instead of writing directly to the location. Users with the Write permission can voluntarily check into a change list.
Users can add one or more models or other documents to a change list all at once, or over several check ins. Documents checked into a change list are stored in a special folder in the repository and their contents are not available to other users until they have been approved.
- Core Features Guide > Modeling with PowerDesigner > The Repository > Change Lists
You can now import objects from an XML file by defining mappings between the elements
in the XML schema and objects in the PowerDesigner metamodel (and extensions). The
import mappings are defined in an extension file, can be shared with all users
through the repository library, and are accessed by selecting 
File 
Import <Import Name> 
.
- Core Features Guide > Modeling with PowerDesigner > Objects > Importing Objects from XML Files
You can now define advanced object generations to generate one or more types of
object to any other types of object, with complete control over how all the
attributes, compositions (sub-objects), and aggregations (related objects) will be
mapped to the generated objects' properties. The generation mappings are defined in
an extension file, can be shared with all users through the repository library, and
are accessed by selecting Tools Generate Objects <Generation Name> .
- Core Features Guide > Linking and Synchronizing Models > Generating Models and Model Objects
- A branch filter in the Browser Repository tab:
- Model permissions per branch.
- Core Features Guide > Modeling with PowerDesigner > The Repository > Branching Version Trees
- Branch filtering in the Repository Explorer.
- Support for change lists.
- Core Features Guide > Modeling with PowerDesigner > The Repository > Repository Web Clients > The PowerDesigner Portal
A new local cache on your workstation is provided to speed up checking models into and out of the repository.
- Core Features Guide > Modeling with PowerDesigner > Customizing Your Modeling Environment > General Options > Repository Options
The models listed in the Target Models category of the Browser now display status icons to indicate whether a newer version is available in the Repository.
- Core Features Guide > Linking and Synchronizing Models > Shortcuts and Replicas > Working with Target Models