Database Diagram - Modeling Assistants

Modeling assistants are some floating tools for creating on diagram . These tools show up when mouse move over the diagram or tables. You can use them to create easily relationships, tables and columns.

There is two kind of modeling assistants:
  1. Popup toolbar
  2. Connection handlers

1. Popup toolbar

This popup toolbar will appear near the cursor and contains tools to create elements. For example on the diagram background, this toolbar contains tools to create new tables, notes, links and labels.



Over a table, the toolbar allow you to create new columns, new indexes, new primary keys, foreign keys and connection with another table .



2. Connection handlers

Connection handlers appear on the table bounds under the cursor:



The connection handler for creating an association between tables: