Modeling Entity Relationships › Generating and Building the Employee Entity

Generating and Building the Employee Entity

Since you last built the project management application, you have created the Task entity and specified relationships between it and the other two entities. None of the changes you have made affect the Project entity directly, so you do not need to regenerate and rebuild that entity. You have not yet generated and built the Employee entity, so that is the next step. For more information on the process of generating and building, see Generating and Building in the chapter "Your First CA Plex Application in 20 Minutes."

The Employee entity also inherits its user interface from FOUNDATION/EditDetail, and its database access functions from STORAGE/RelationalTable. It has five fields: Employee ID, Employee Name, Employee Hire Status, and Employee Email Address. Employee Hire Status is a status field, which displays as a drop-down list on the Employee panel.

To generate and build Employee:

1. Open the Generate and Build window, and select Employee. (If Employee is not in the window, click the Refresh button.)
2. Generate and build the entity and its scoped objects.

   You do not build the Task entity until the following chapter, "Creating a Wizard."