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Each Hornbill application is delivered with access to its database schema and entity relationships. This is useful when trying to understand where to identify tables, table columns, primary keys, and suitable fields for making your table joins. This functionality is intended to make your quest for information that little bit easier when constructing those all important analytics and management reports.
 
Each Hornbill application is delivered with access to its database schema and entity relationships. This is useful when trying to understand where to identify tables, table columns, primary keys, and suitable fields for making your table joins. This functionality is intended to make your quest for information that little bit easier when constructing those all important analytics and management reports.
  
Accessing the Entity Viewer in the Administration Tool requires the role '''Advanced Reporting Admin'''. For the Service Manager application, you will only be able to access entities as a user who's assigned the role "Super User Role".
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Accessing the Entity Viewer in the Administration Tool is only open to an admin who's assigned the role '''Super User Role'''.
 
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Revision as of 13:55, 19 May 2020

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Introduction

Each Hornbill application is delivered with access to its database schema and entity relationships. This is useful when trying to understand where to identify tables, table columns, primary keys, and suitable fields for making your table joins. This functionality is intended to make your quest for information that little bit easier when constructing those all important analytics and management reports.

Accessing the Entity Viewer in the Administration Tool is only open to an admin who's assigned the role Super User Role.

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Features

  • Entity Information - Provides a visual interface to explore the application tables and how they relate to each other. A quick way to identify extended tables and the columns that create table links. Click on a table and use the "Description" and "Information" buttons to the top right of the graphical user interface to explore each table in more detail.
  • Database Schema Information - a simple description of each application table. Understand more about the columns contained in the tables including a supporting description, type, and information on which columns are indexed.