Bug #40027 Forward Engineer to SQL Script disabled in OSS version

• Submitted: 14 Oct 2008 16:27
• Modified: 14 Oct 2008 18:45
• Reporter: Sheeri Cabral (Candidate Quality Contributor)
• Status: Not a Bug
• Category: MySQL Workbench
• Severity: S1 (Critical)
• Version: 5.0.26
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any
• Tags: forward engineer

[14 Oct 2008 16:27] Sheeri Cabral

Description:
According to:

http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/?page_id=11

and the manual page at

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-export-script-alter-schema.html

MySQL Workbench OSS edition is supposed to be able to forward engineer to an SQL script, and the only forward engineering that's in the SE edition only is forward engineering to a live db.

Yet, when I 

How to repeat:
Install MySQL Workbench OSS.  Try to click Database -> forward engineer.

Suggested fix:
Please enable the promised features!!!

[14 Oct 2008 16:28] Sheeri Cabral

screen capture of how forward engineering is greyed out.

Attachment: workbenchfail.jpg (image/jpeg, text), 47.89 KiB.

[14 Oct 2008 16:32] Johannes Taxacher

Hello Sheeri,

the feature you're looking for is not in the database menu. you can find it in the main menu under:
File->Export->Forware Engineer SQL CREATE/ALTER script ...

[14 Oct 2008 18:45] Sheeri Cabral

Then the docs need to be fixed, as they don't specify a menu to look at, and having 2 menu items called "forward engineering" is confusing.