Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Creating Repository data for tables and fields

The next task you must perform as you prepare your environment is to create data in the Repository for all the entities (tables and fields) in your application database. This information is used to let tools such as the Object Generator use the structure of your data, your naming conventions, and other information that makes it more successful in creating objects automatically.

You can specify the key fields that form a unique key for a table, so that Comments and Auditing records can be created for any database record. You can also identify what fields should be made part of objects such as the dynamic browsers and viewers the Object Generator creates.

Entity Import is the process of reading through the database schema information for all the tables in your application database, or for selected tables, and generating the starting values for this kind of information in the Repository table gsc_entity_mnemonic. You can then go into the Entity Maintenance utility to modify values for specific tables and fields as needed.