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Getting Started
Ellie runs in the cloud; no installation is neededrequired. Use your username (email address) and password to sign log in.
You can also reset your password from the login page by clicking on the Reset password button:
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Picture 1. Reset your password
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Picture 2. You can switch between the Edit and View modes in Ellie, depending on the situation.
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4. Double-click on an Entity in the canvas to insert Metadata. There is also an ‘Edit’ Edit button in the Metadata form, for editing.
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Viewing Content
To browse content in Ellie, there is a view mode (any user that does not have unless the user has Admin or Write privileges is , they are automatically in the view mode).
Click on ‘View’ View
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Picture 5. You can switch between Editing and Viewing the content in Ellie, depending on the situation.
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2. Right-click on an entity to open a context menu, allowing . This allows you to, for example, view the Metadata of the Entity - such as seeing if there is a Description set for this specific Entity. You can also set the Entity type or Font size here. Or replace the Entity with another one, or delete it from the canvas.
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Picture 6. Right-clicking will preview the Metadata from of the selected Entity
Drawing Relations
When you are done placing Entities into your model by using drag’n’drop, you can start drawing lines that will indicate a Relationship between the Entities. Just click on the border of a source Entity, and, while holding the left mouse button down, drag your cursor until it hits you reach the border of another Entity. The Relationship type will be drawn with the default selected type (Draw as on the toolbar). You can also change the default Relationship type.
RightWhen you right-click on the pale grey circle at the border of an Entity, doing this will open a dropdown menu allowing you you will get to change the Relationship type.
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Picture 7. Select the preferred Relationship type
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You can also attach Relationship labels to Relationship lines: Click on a Relationship line, in the exact place you want to have a Relationship label. This creates an elbow. Now, Right-click on the newly created elbow, and select Edit from the context menu.
You can now add a description to this elbow and choose where the position it will be displayed in. The options are: above, below, left of and right of the elbow. In the following example below, a Relationship label “Additional information” “Relationship description” will be attached to the Relationship between the Company and the Person Invoice Entities. The orange circle denotes a node in the Relationship, also referred to as the an elbow.
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Picture 9. Editing relationships
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When you move your mouse cursor on top of an entityEntity, corners appear. Click and drag on a corner the corners in order to resize the Entity.
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Picture 14. Subtypes in Ellie
Entity Types
In Ellie, the idea is to make models more readable, faster to build and easier to add information about the nature of the data you are seeing. This is based on the notion that there are certain similarities between models, even across different industries.
The entities are divided into three basic six classes: Master data, Contract, Transaction, Reference, Transaction header and Transaction detail. In Ellie, we use the colors in the following way:
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