Column and Table comments

pcrissman · Post by **pcrissman** » Mon 19 Oct 2009 19:46

We have comments in Oracle at column and table level. When I bring the tables into Entity Developer I was expecting the Summary or Long Description to have been pre-populated with the comments defined in Oracle. What is the expected behavior here? We'd like to have this information available in Metadata, but really didn't want to have to type it in again if already available in the db.

We are running latest build - 2.20.38

Thanks,

Pam Crissman

AndreyR · Post by **AndreyR** » Wed 21 Oct 2009 08:19

We will investigate the possibility to implement this functionality.
I will let you know about the results of our investigation.

AndreyR · Post by **AndreyR** » Mon 16 Nov 2009 14:46

This functionality is implemented in the upcoming build.

skingaby · Post by **skingaby** » Tue 24 Nov 2009 14:10

This is working now. One caveat: carriage returns in the Oracle comment are imported into the EF Designer and DO get generated out to the .cs code file -- which is a problem, because the second line of the comment is not prefixed by /// in the .cs code and introduces a compile error. I had to remove the CR from the EF Designer version of the comment and then the generated .cs file was fine.

AndreyR · Post by **AndreyR** » Tue 24 Nov 2009 15:39

Thank you for the report, we are investigating the problem.

AndreyR · Post by **AndreyR** » Mon 07 Dec 2009 16:39

The problem is fixed in the latest build of dotConnect for Oracle.

skingaby · Post by **skingaby** » Wed 09 Dec 2009 03:49

I have got to say that you guys are the most responsive group when it comes to fixing bugs. Many of the problems I have posted about have specifically been addressed in a subsequent release of your dotConnect for Oracle or Entity Developer products. This one wasn't even a complaint and you fixed it anyway. Thank you! Please keep up the great customer service, you guys are awesome!

Shalex · Post by **Shalex** » Wed 09 Dec 2009 10:09

Thank you for your kind words. Your appreciation is the best approval of our work.

AndreyR · Post by **AndreyR** » Wed 09 Dec 2009 12:58

Thank you. Your kind words really mean a lot for us.

ponette75 · Post by **ponette75** » Mon 16 Aug 2010 09:37

is it possible to add an option in the naming rules screen when reversing a DB deciding where to generate the DB comment, either in the summary element, or in the longdescription element (or both...) ?

best regards
Francis de Fouchier

AndreyR · Post by **AndreyR** » Mon 16 Aug 2010 12:29

We are investigating the possibility to add the requested Naming Rules functionality.
I will let you know about the results.

AndreyR · Post by **AndreyR** » Fri 20 Aug 2010 11:33

This functionality will not be available in the near builds.
We don't have any timeframe for the implementation of this feature.