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Template Editor for Forward Engineering Template Files

The Forward Engineer wizard now includes a link to a Template Editor, which you can use to view, modify, and create new template files for use with schema generation. The Template Editor features give you a wide range of options for controlling schema generation for your models. You can review and print database-specific features of the default template files, create a custom template file based on a default template file, or create a completely new template file. The Template Editor also includes new macros and extensive customization options.

You can access the new Template Editor from within the Forward Engineer wizard, or from an option on the Tools menu.

This feature replaces the r7.2.x Database Template option,where you could edit the *.erwin_fe_template files outside the program to modify the schema generation options. The new feature uses *.FET files which you work with using the template editor interface.

A technical document, Editing Forward Engineering Templates, is installed with the product in the \Doc folder beneath the folder where you installed CA ERwin Data Modeler. This guide provides an introduction to working with the new template editor. You can also open this PDF from a shortcut on the Start menu.