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Datamodel
Publisher
Your Smallworld ™Asset Management
system is probably embedded in a
larger data architecture.
Your Smallworld ™Asset Management
system is probably embedded in a
larger data architecture.
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Our Key

Story

Datamodel Publisher improves the awareness within your organisation of the valuable data maintained in your Smallworld system. It also supports Smallworld specialists in their tasks, particularly the Smart Compare.
When your data evolves in time, both the machine and human based communication of changes in the structure of the data in your system has become more and more important.
Give it a try, it will surprise you.
Datamodel Publisher improves the awareness within your organisation of the valuable data maintained in your Smallworld system. It also supports Smallworld specialists in their tasks, particularly the Smart Compare.

When your data evolves in time, both the machine and human based communication of changes in the structure of the data in your system has become more and more important.

Give it a try, it will surprise you.

Documentation and examples are available at boogert-lab.nl/dmpublisher/doc.
Fill in the form here or send an e-mail to dmpublisher@boogert-lab.nl to receive a username and password.

The Key Benefits

of our Datamodel Publisher

Share

Publish valuable meta data, descriptions and translations of your Smallworld ™system throughout your organisation.

Compare

Use the Smart Compare utility in your release process and let it document every change in your datamodel.

Grow

Profit from the Smallworld community intelligence to add valuable insights in your data using the publisher framework.

Datamodel Publisher

Key Functions

Provides detailed descriptions of tables, relationships, fields, enumerators, topology and Common Office features.

Interactive easy to navigate HTML pages with different levels of detail.

ER Diagrams based on your
CASE graphics.

Multiple language support for the
datamodel and HTML.

Compare and visualise differences
between datamodel versions of
your datasets.

Datamodel

Publisher Features

Descriptions

Add descriptions to the
XML and HTML by selecting
the option that suit
your situation.

Translations

View the translations of
your datamodel in one click.
Select untranslated objects
inXML or highlight them
in HTML.

AUX

Create reports using the
auxiliary data feature by
adding additional XML with
information on your data.
For example data statistics.

Datamodel

Publisher Technical

Export your Smallworld™ datamodel to XML and create HTML pages using XSLT. The XML created
by Datamodel Publisher contains all the information you need from the datamodel.

Descriptions can be added for tables, fields, mapped geometries and more. Datamodel Publisher contains XSL templates and functions for creation of HTML pages. The HTML is interactive and allows easy navigation through your model.
Changing appearance and customisation is made easy by using CSS styles only

Datamodel

Publisher Editions

All new, removed and changed objects are shown in their adequate context.

Information is shown in levels of detail. Old values are shown when hovering the text.

Navigate through the changes.

Datamodel

Comparison HTML

The example shows the table ‘Office’ using a new
enumerator for the field ‘Status’, a new geometry field (
‘Beschriftung’ in ‘de_de’) and a change in the field ‘Logo’.

This latter change is in the subtype of the derived
field ‘logo’. The old value was ‘ds_int’, the new
‘ds_uint’.
A minor detail is displayed only when the option
‘Technical details’ is on.
The example above shows the table ‘Office’ using a new enumerator for the field ‘Status’, a new geometry field ( ‘Beschriftung’ in ‘de_de’) and a change in field ‘Logo’.

This latter change is in the subtype of the derived field ‘logo’. The old value was ‘ds_int’, the new ‘ds_uint’.

A minor detail displayed only when the option ‘Technical details’ is on.

Datamodel

Comparison XSLT

The example shows how the Publishers
XML is transformed into HTML, expressing the
special properties of an enumerator but also
the
overall translation property.

The example shows how the Publishers XML is transformed into HTML, expressing the special properties of an enumerator but also the overall translation property.

Datamodel

Publisher Editions

Datamodel Publisher comes in two editions. With the standard edition you can
export and
publish your datamodels in HTML. The Smart Compare edition
contains the code for
comparison and transformation.

Standard edition

Basic Datamodel XML output

Basic XSL templates for HTML

Basic Magik API

Documentation

Source code

Saxon 10 HE

Installer

Smart compare

Basic Datamodel XML output

Basic XSL templates for HTML

Basic Magik API

Documentation

Source code

Saxon 10 HE

Installer

Smart Compare XSL templates

Smart Compare Magik API

Support

Contacts

Datamodel Publisher is a co production of
Realworld Software Products and boogert-lab.nl.