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Exports the design to the reporting repository in the reporting schema (explained in Data Modeler Reports). To perform the export, you must select a connection and click OK.
Connections: Displays the names of database connections, from which you much choose one to serve as the reporting repository. To create a new database connection, click the Add Connection (+) icon; to delete an existing connection, select it and click the Remove Connection (X) icon; to edit an existing connection, double-click its entry, or select it and click the Connection Properties icon.
Comments: Optional descriptive text or notes about the connections.
Options tab
Export Diagrams as PDF: If this option is enabled, diagrams in the design are exported in PDF format and stored as BLOBs; if this option is not enabled, diagrams are exported in XML format.
Maintenance tab
Drop Repository: Enables you to drop (delete) the reporting repository in the schema of the selected database connection. After the existing repository is dropped, a new empty repository is automatically created in this schema.
Delete Designs: Enables you to select a repository connection and then one or more designs within that repository, to have the information about those designs deleted from the repository.
Glossary tab
Export Glossary: Enables you to specify a Data Modeler glossary file, to have its information exported to the reporting repository.
Delete Glossary: Enables you to select a glossary in the reporting repository, to have its information deleted from the repository.