Using categories to organize your models in Toad Data Modeler

Hello, my name is Robert Pound, and I am a product technologist for Quest. In this video, we will talk about using categories to organize your models into a data modeler. When working with large models, it may be helpful to quickly identify certain types of entities. You can accomplish this into a data modeler with categories. So on screen I have a simple project that I want to add categories to. So right now we can see we have a few interrelated tables. But if I right-click on the categories in the explorer and choose Add Category, and then double-click on the category, I can rename the category whatever I like. I'll just put Sens for sensitive. And we're going to go ahead and label this red for attention, and click OK. And then we'll go ahead and do this one more time, another category, double-click on it, and we'll do class for classified, and we'll label this yellow. Now, as I'm creating these categories, I can add a description obviously. But one thing I can do is once I've created the category, I can immediately identify which objects from the list available I want to add this category to. So in this case, let's just do parts, and we'll make this a classified. Go ahead click Apply. And you can see that it's been updated. Let me go ahead and click OK. So now we can see that this is part of the class or classified or whatever. It's an arbitrary category, but the point is, you can easily identify it in the canvas now. And if I wanted to, for instance, change the line order, I could come to Edit. And under the General tab, there's the category with a dropdown list. Currently it's set to None, but if I wanted to choose Sens for sensitive for instance, I could do that. Or if I wanted to select a different item and I look at the list and there isn't one that's applicable, I can choose the ellipses here, and it will bring up a category list. So from here, I can see the categories that I currently have. And if I wanted to add another one, I can, and I'll go ahead and rename this Toad. And I don't like the olive color. So let's do just plain green. And Apply. So now I have Toad to choose from as well. And I will click Apply, and now it's green. So that's how you work with categories, and to get an idea, if I switch over to this other project, we can see it's a fairly large project and it's kind of sprawled all out. But you can see, for instance, everything in bright yellow is an event. And if I double-click on the categories, it'll bring up that same categories list and we can see which category is what color So again, if we wanted to look for Events, we find everything in yellow, et cetera. And that's everything I had to share today for categories and the Toad Data Modeler. Hopefully this helped you organize your models and helped categorize certain entities in your model. To get more information on this or other topics, you can go to the Help file. It has a wide range of topics and tutorials to help get you started. You can also check out the community-driven innovation going on at www.toadworld.com. For more information on this product, you can go to www.quest.com/products/toad-data-modeler. Sports Thank you and have a tremendous day.