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 I've tried to generate test data and I really don't understand it.  I there a way to test data on the model one click at a time.  Is there a good article on this? Makes me want to add little arrows between entities that tell the model how many times to loop and which entities go first and which ones go next ...

I deleted the key and did not notice anything unusual.  The toolbox still works.  Looks like its fixed to me.  Verbalizer is the most useful feature for me and that seems to work as well. I was also able to create notes and link to entities, value types, and fact types.

Looks like I reset the toolbox too soon b/c I can't re-create the problem now. The ORMSolutions key ORMSolutions.ORMArchitect.Core.ShapeModel.ORMShapeDomainModel has REG_DWORD = 0x00001b00 (6912)  Its working great now.  The only hint I can give you as to maybe why it did this is b/c when I initially tried to install it on the ...

 On a clients machine they have my login setup up as a regular non-admin user and I asked the local admin to install the Norma tool from his acct.  I installed update 2 in vs2012 from the admin acct as well and everything works great except the toolbox for an orm model. I have the same configuration on my home computer except ...

I'm looking for best practice in orm by asking Is there a good way in orm to check that all the required fields for the approval process (final stage for approval) is completed and ready to go? I have credit card account authorization tables and one of the last tables that gets populated is an approval table which has the date the ...

I have an adhoc technique that may work for this case.  Try to push your model to the SQL database and generate your SQL scripts.  Make all the changes to names as you see fit and then create those objects in SQL, then re-import (db import) it in after changing all the names.   Some of ...

The reason for having multiple files in the first place is to clearly define separate business processes and tiers of functionality.  I would definitely be interested in using tools that can not only organize separate business processes but also explain how they might connect up.  I know I can make a high level tab in the Norma tool ...

 I do the same thing using a c# console app b/c it has a very small signature and I can focus on just the data model.  Only thing I wish was that I could combine my orm models and maybe distinguish the different fact types and object type into their own sections by schema name.  And maybe where two or more different ...

Thanks Ken, I re-looked over your message and I realize that you are indeed correct.   This state code is being used more like an attribute and should not be used at the conceptual level.  In fact when you combine several attributes like this and then condense them down like I described ...

This all guesswork on my part, but, It should be easy to add in new data types in the style sheets.  I don't think anything is hard coded.  But mapping the data types from orm to sql is the trickey part.  There has to be a type in orm that corresponds to the new data types in the database model you want to generate.  So you ...