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The Toolbox Toolbar

The toolbox contains different tools you can use to perform routine tasks such as creating an entity, a table, or a relationship. By default, the toolbox is docked below the menu structure.

Different tools display in the toolbox depending on the model type, notation, and in some cases, the server that you specify.

• Select
• Entity/Attribute
• Complete Sub-Category (relationship)
• Identifying relationship
• View/Materialized relationship
• Non-Identifying (relationship)
• Many-to-Many (relationship)
• Annotation
• Line

Note: The Materialized Query Table tool appears in the toolbox in physical models based on DB2. The same icon is used for the Materialized View tool, available for physical models based on Oracle.

If you work with multiple models at the same time, you can select a tool in one model then go to another model and select another tool. The last tool that you select for each window remains selected for that window so you can return to a window and resume work with the correct tool selected.

• You can add consecutive multiple objects by pressing the CTRL key before you click the item in the toolbox. When you click again in the diagram window, another object of that type is created.
• You can view a description of each toolbox button by placing the mouse cursor on each button in the workspace.
• You can move the toolbar to a floating or docked position or you can display or hide the toolbar in the workspace.
• To display or hide the toolbar, click Toolbars, Toolbox from the View menu.