How to change the displayed caption of for FK relationships in the Physical Model layout?

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I reversed engineered a database and it is displaying the caption “FK_[parent table name]to[child_table_name]”. I would like the caption to display "[parent table name]:[column name]-[child table name]:[column name].

Is there any way I can do this without manually editing all the captions?

Thank you

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Hello there,

The fastest way is to use a macro, please try executing the one I enclosed in Expert Mode Menu | Scripting Window (you need to enable Expert Mode in Settings Menu | Options | General). It should rename all of your FKs in the model according to the pattern you mentioned.

Regards,

Lukas
RenameForeignKeys.txt (1.26 KB)

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Thank you for the script. It was very valuable.

The script changed the caption but inside the entity. I used it as a reference to change the relation caption. I’m including the modified script that worked for me but my database foreign keys only have one column for each table. I don’t think my script would work otherwise.

function main() {
var x, y, iterRel, childEntityName, parentEntityName, newCaption;

for (x = 0; x < Model.Relations.Count; x++) {
    iterRel = Model.Relations.GetObject(x);

    childEntityName = iterRel.ChildEntity.name;
    parentEntityName = iterRel.ParentEntity.name;

    for (y = 0; y < iterRel.ForeignKeys.Count; y++) {
        foreignKey = iterRel.ForeignKeys.GetObject(y);

        newCaption = "[" + parentEntityName + "-" + foreignKey.AttrParent.name + "]" + ":" + "[" + childEntityName + "-" + foreignKey.AttrChild.name + "]";

        //Log.Information(newCaption);
    }

    iterRel.caption = newCaption;
}

Model.RefreshModel();

}