Create an ERD record

Applies to User Roles:

System Administrator

An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) is a graphic description of the logical structure of a database. Database administrators often rely on conceptual and physical data models to understand the relationships among tables, records, and data, and to produce reports.

To create an ERD record:

  1. Click Tailoring > Tailoring Tools > ERD Create Records.
  2. Type the Name (usually the application name) for the ERD Create record.
  3. Click More or the More Actions icon and then select Add Files for Module.

    Note: The Add Files process will fail if the name of the ERD record is not associated with one or more Data Policy records.

  4. Click More or the More Actions icon and then select Add Master Links.
  5. Click More or the More Actions icon and then select Add all Related Links.
  6. Click Add.
  7. Click OK.

Note: You can add relationships manually from the Manual Relationships tab. Use this tab to define relationships that do not occur in any of the automatically discovered categories. Each relationship that you create manually also appears in the ERD.

Related concepts

DDL mode
Entity Relationship Diagram creation utility
What are Master link records?
What are related link records?
What is the required input for ERD Create?

Related references

Checklist: Creating an ERD record for an application
Checklist: Generating a DDL file

Related tasks

Associate a data policy record with an application
Create manual relationships
Generate a DDL file
Import a DDL file into a database modeling tool
Modify an ERD record