Bug #35065 Relationship drawing tool should default "Pick Columns" to on
Submitted: 5 Mar 2008 3:01 Modified: 10 Apr 2008 0:40
Reporter: Tim Lokot Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.014 OS:Windows (XP (SP2))
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: default settings

[5 Mar 2008 3:01] Tim Lokot
Description:
It seems every time I want to draw a relationship between two tables on the canvas, I need to click the "Pick columns" checkbox the first time, rather than this being the default behaviour.  More often than not, I would assume people would be wanting to relate two columns rather than at a generic table level.  Would be great if you could just drag between columns in tables, or click one then the other without that extra click in the black box dialog as well.

How to repeat:
1. Click "Place a new 1:n non-identifying relationship"
2. Click "Pick columns" in the top toolbar
3. Select the column from the first table
4. Click the button in the black dialog box
5. Click the column in the table at the other end of the relationship

Suggested fix:
If "Pick columns" was enabled by default, the process would reduce to the following:

1. Click "Place a new 1:n non-identifying relationship"
2. Select the column from the first table
3. Click the button in the black dialog box
4. Click the column in the table at the other end of the relationship

If you could just drag between columns on two different tables without needing to click the black box, it would shrink down even further to:

1. Click "Place a new 1:n non-identifying relationship"
2. Select the column from the first table
3. Drag to column in the table at the other end of the relationship
[10 Apr 2008 0:40] Alfredo Kojima
A new relationship with "pick columns"  tool button was added, so this becomes
obsolete.