Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Using the Designer for PDF layout
The Designer feature (available in the Database view) offers a more refined way
of moving the tables on screen as the column links follow the table movements.
Therefore, an interface exists between the tables' coordinates, as saved by the
Designer, and the coordinates for the PDF schema. Let's enter the Designer and
click the small PDF logo.
This brings us to a panel where we can choose the (existing) PDF schema name and
the action we want to perform—in our case, to export the Designer coordinates to
the PDF schema. We could also use the
Create a new page
dialog, entering a PDF
page name and clicking
Go
to create an empty page. From here, we can subsequently
export the coordinates saved from the Designer workspace.
There is a difference in the span of tables managed by the
Designer
and by
the
Edit PDF
feature. The
Designer
manipulates every table of a database,
whereas the
Edit PDF
panel offers us a choice of tables enabling us to
represent a subset of the relations in case there are many tables.
Summary
This chapter covers the documentation features offered by phpMyAdmin—the print
view for a database or a table and the data dictionary for a complete column list. The
chapter also covers PDF relational schemas. In particular, it focuses on how to create
and modify a PDF schema page, and how to use the visual editor (scratchboard). The
next chapter will explain how to apply transformations to data, in order to customize
its format at view time.
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