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In our experience, business people understand this quite intuitively. You can find more detailed explanation of subtypes in Ellie from our Modeler’s Corner blog post : https://ellie.ai/blogs/modelers-corner-4 - subtypes - in - data - modeling/.
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Picture 14. Subtypes in Ellie
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You can find more information on Ellie’s Entity types from our Modeler’s Corner blog post on this 2 entity types.
Setting an Entity Type
Right-click on an Entity. Choose the Entity type from the context menu. In this example, the Entity “Customer-account role” is assigned to be a Contract.
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Picture 16. Selecting Entity types
In the picture above you can see that a Transaction type Bank transaction (Type: Transaction) has to be related to one specific Account (Type: Contract). An Account might belong to only one branch (these are traditional branches, but in the internet banking world, there are no branches).
The Customer-account role resolves the many-to-many relationship between the Account and Customer. The Roles are typically Contracts. The Branch and Customer are typical Master data Entities, and the text box gives some examples of the Customer-account role, in order to make this model more understandable.
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4. Create as many users as you like - all you need to do is have their first name and last name, valid e-mail address.
5. Define the role of each user, a role can be either Admin, Write or Read. Admins can create new content (Models, Business Glossary, Collections, Reports) and add more users - they can also add users . Writes as editors to restricted Collections. Write users can also create new Models, Collections, Reports and Business Glossary Items items, but cannot add more users. Readers are only allowed to view the Models, Glossary Items, and Reports.
Logical Models
Logical Modeling introduction
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After clicking on the New Logical Model button, you will be navigated to a form where you can set the name of the LM, and the description of the LM.
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Here is what the newly created LM Entity will look like on the LM Canvas. It will be placed in the center of the Canvas, so if you create multiple Entities, they will be appear on top of eachother - move their location so that you can start creating hierarchies.
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Importing content to Ellie
We have a separate documentation on page documenting how to import entities and attributes to into Ellie - please follow this link: How to import attributes to Ellie from Excel
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In case you have more questions, we’ll we’d be happy to help you!
You can contact us by e-mailing support@ellie.ai.