CA ERwin Data Modeler r8 New Feature Guided Tours › Diagrams, Subject Areas, Layout, and Customization › Creating and Working with Themes

Creating and Working with Themes

Use the following steps to become familiar with creating and working with themes.

  1. Open an existing model (or create a new one) and click Themes on the View menu to launch the Theme Editor.
  2. Click New Click the New Button to create a new theme on the Theme Editor toolbar to create a new theme. Notice that a new theme is created with a default name and property values.
  3. Click the Name field of the newly-created theme and provide a meaningful name such as MyTheme. Customize your new theme by specifying non-default values for the Default Font, Diagram Fill, Entity Font, Entity Fill, Attribute Font, and FK Attribute Font options in the grid. Click the tabs for other modeling objects like Key, View, Relationship, and so on, and customize their font and fill options if required. Close the Theme Editor to save your changes.
  4. Open the Diagram Editor, click the General tab, and select your new theme from the Optional Theme drop-down to apply the theme to the visible diagram. Close the Diagram Editor to see the effect of your selection.
  5. Right-click an entity on the diagram, and select Entity Properties to launch the Entity Editor. On the Style tab, change the Theme selection from the currently selected one to the Default Theme, and close the editor. Note the effect of this action on the selected entity only.
  6. Reopen the Theme Editor (see Step 1). Select the theme you created in Step 3, and click the Where Used tab to see the subject areas, diagrams, modeling objects, and drawing objects that use this particular theme. Verify the places where this theme is being used, and close the editor.