Defining Captions and Descriptions

Many database designers employ naming conventions for database objects that are programmer friendly, but are not helpful for the users of your application.  Using the Design Assistant you can provide user-friendly names for all of your database objects including table, fields, views, queries, relationships, parameters and stored procedures. 

Further, you can specify descriptions for many of your database objects.  For browsers that support it, descriptions will appear in the form of tool tips when the user hovers the mouse over the object name in Gatsby Database Explorer.

You can specify a caption for your database object in one of two ways:  Open your data sources file using the Gatsby Design Assistant.  Select your database and click the "Properties..." button.  Click on the Views tab.  You can change the captions for your tables, views, stored procedures and their attributes directly from the Views tab by clicking on the label making your changes.  Alternatively you can select the item that you want to change and click "Properties..." and make your changes on the General tab of the object's property page.

Defining Keys