How to add IDENTITY to generated ER Report?

Toad Data Modeler
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When generating the HTML PER Report, I see nothing in the generated HTML for Attributes that show any IDENTITY property for a SQL Server database.

Is there some way this can be added to the report? If so, can it show the seed and increment values?

Thanks.

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Hello stephen,
Identity information is on tab Attributes in each attribute see screenshot

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Daril

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Entirely not what I was seeking, but thanks for taking the time to look…

I have but 22,796 Attributes in this one DB. It would be an excessive waste of effort to have to drill into every attribute that may have an ID last 2 characters just to determine the presence of an IDENTITY (as if that was an across the board standard, which is isn’t…)

What I NEED is to extend the Attribute grid on the ENTITY page to include this important property. Even if it’s a yes/no it will be immensely helpful - I can drill for the start and increment but as I’ve extremely rarely seen anything other than (1,1) and a few function-specific (a.k.a. schema namespace) tables use (-int-max/-bigint-max,1), I don’t need the detail as it can take up too much page-space - thus, just the Y/N would be good enough.

How can THAT be achieved, please?

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This can be customized. We’ll help you with that. Which version of SQL Server you are using, please?

Mario

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Currently TDM is set to read from 2014, but we develop and QA against 2014, 2016 and 2017, so “All Mainstream Supported Versions” is the best answer, for full coverage.

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Hi,

We prepared a user package, which report Identity property in Entities page of HTML report. Download file HTMLReportsMS_user.txg. It is user package, which will modify HTML report for SQL Serve 2012 and above.

How to install user package:

  • Run TDM and switch on expert mode (Main Menu > Settings > Options > General > Expert Mode checkbox)
  • In Main Menu should be appeared new menu item “Expert Mode”.
  • Go to “Main Menu > Expert Mode > Customization > Import Custom Package” and find and import user package “HTMLReportsMS_user.txg”.
  • After this restart TDM.

In fact this process only copy package to location defined in TDM. By Default it is “C:\Users\USERNAMEXY\Documents\Toad Data Modeler\Standard Installation\Packages\{DCB5CB9B-CF65-4350-86B5-285D246FC5AC}”.

Now you can try generate HTML report.

For uninstall simply delete this user package in Documents path.

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You can edit scripts in linked user package.

In Script Explorer (Main Menu > Expert Mode > Customization > Script Explorer) you can now find two new user scripts (in path “Reports > HTML > Model Reports > Basic Reports”):

  • BasicHTMLPERReportMS12_user … It containt one changed function used in report for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014.
  • BasicHTMLPERReportMS16_user … It containt one changed function used in report for SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017.

For example, if you want see only YES/NO values in Identity column of report, you can replace rows 129-136 for (uncommented) row 137:
Table.CreateCell( a+1,8,Instance.LogicToString(AttrInf.Identity) ); // other possible report item

Regards,

Mario

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Thanks, Mario. I’ll give that a try after I extinguish the current blazes!