Skipper support site - Recent questions in General Questions

How to export with latestOfMany() relationships for hasOne?

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:31:23 +0000

I am exporting my project to a test environment and it is copying over all the models exported by Skipper as expected. I am using Laravel and so far everything is going well.

In order to not change the workflow I need to define latestOfMany() as the relationship default behaviour in the exported Abstract Model.

Is there something I'm missing, can you define such behaviour in Skipper?

Many thanks

Licence reset on each start

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:28:16 +0000

Hello,

Everytime I launch Skipper, I have to enter my Licence again and again.

I am using v3.3.5.

Thank you for your help.

Are skipper able to create has many through relations?

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:32:52 +0000

Is there a way to define hasmanythrough realtions in skipper?
https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/eloquent-relationships#has-many-through

/Frode

use skipper with eloquent and phinx

Fri, 13 May 2022 17:55:54 +0000

For a new project I need to use the SLIM4 framework instead of my trusted laravel. I have added Eloquent and will do migrations through phinx (from cakephp).
I want to use skipper for databases design, ORM class generation and migration. I almost got it working but two thing are still giving me trouble:

the generated filename for migrations are of a form that phinx does not understand, and I can't find a way to make it more succeptible. skipper generates yyyymmddtttttt{name}.php but phynx does not recognise this file, it needs yyyymmddtttttt_{name}.php. Is there any way to set the output filename format for migration files?
the migration class (use top of migration file) is fixed at Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration. In my case that needs to be \Migration\Migration which is the class that extends the phinx abstract mygration class. Is there any way to setup the template(?) skipper uses?

all the best!
Michael

Does Skipper run on MacOS Monterey?

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:31:02 +0000

Before I upgrade to Monterey, it would be helpful to know if I will lose my favorite data modeling tool for Symfony-Doctrine.

[Fixed] print error in Linux

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:42:08 +0000

I'm unable to print in Linux. It just crashes.

How could I align entities automatically in visual editor?

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:02:58 +0000

I aligned my entities manually as I think it logical, but after generating a new entity all of them lost their positions and mixed with others and the area of bundle changed bigger (in width) than before.

How can I save their positions if I set them manually or is it a possibility to do this automatically (eg. by their names or relations)?

[Answered] Can join tables be hidden after XML import?

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 05:55:14 +0000

When I import the following two files, the ManyToMany association between the two entities has a join-table between them. Can this be prevented or hidden, as they clutter the diagram?

https://gist.github.com/bitwombat/ce4ef51edb89a3cdf0f2cd37ba830712#file-model-entity-competency-dcm-xml

https://gist.github.com/bitwombat/7a759be2b5d4aff2ce863047c351fe58#file-model-entity-competencyset-dcm-xml

The xml files were generated with doctrine-module orm:convert-mapping xml

Primary key annotation not generated after changing db_naming_strategy to underscore_lower

Fri, 28 Jul 2017 11:07:49 +0000

Primary key annotation not generated after changing dbnamingstrategy to underscore_lower. (setting the value to 'default' causes a crash)
Model:

Parameter:

Before change from 'empty' to 'underscore_lower':

After the change:

Table name prefixes for each bundle

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:55:36 +0000

Is it possible to create a table prefix for each bundle?
So BundleName is "FooBundle" and Entity name is "Bar" and skipper will generate the table name like "foo_bar".

Is there a way? I can't find an option. I am using the Mac Version.

Floating license

Fri, 05 May 2017 15:45:24 +0000

Hi:
We have a single license that is currently deployed on a user's profile; are we able to share the license across multiple user profiles through a floating license approach?

Thank you in advance.

It is not possible to delete a region "without removing entities inside", do you have a solution?

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:38:32 +0000

Hello,

It is not possible to delete a region "without removing entities inside", do you have a solution?

Second question:
How is a region defined? In your source code, because I have entities that do not want to leave a region ... even if I change the area of the region ...

Thank you

Is it possible to "search" in an entity name or in a column name ?

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:45:26 +0000

Hello,

Is it possible to "search" in an entity name or in a column name
Because: when the model exceeds hundreds of entities, this complicates

Example: cmd + F

Thank you

@Gedmo\Locale anotation field

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:17:08 +0000

Making a @Gedmo\Locale field in translatable entity should by implemented in version 3.2.7.1319 (according your comment). So how to use it?

After export to ORM i get this:

<?php

namespace AlagenexBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
use Gedmo\Translatable\Translatable;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Table(name="category")
 */
class Category implements Translatable
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="SEQUENCE")
     * @ORM\SequenceGenerator(sequenceName="category_id_seq")
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=100, nullable=false)
     * @Gedmo\Translatable
     */
    private $label;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(nullable=true)
     */
    private $locale;
}

First problem is that locale field has no @Gedmo\Locale annotation. Second is that it has @ORM\Column annotation. What am i doing wrong?

Is it possible to use Skipper in headless mode?

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:52:15 +0000

Is it possible to use Skipper in headless mode from command line in order to export model to ORM schema definition files during the CI process?

How do I remove or disable the "maintenance" reminder?

Sat, 23 Apr 2016 23:40:21 +0000

Is there a way to remove the rather annoying "maintenance" reminder nagger from skipper? I use this ongoing and each time I open it I have to close the thing.

A time will certainly come when I will want to update again, but I don't want to be nagged each time I use the programme.

Such a good product, it does not need nagware.

thanks!

Gedmo extensions beta support

Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:45:14 +0000

Hi,

after a lot of work we're ready to introduce the first public beta version with Gedmo extensions support. Gedmo extensions is shipped directly with Skipper application files so there are no additional steps to use it.

Before first testing, please make a backup of your project. This is very early beta and can contain bugs which could damage your schema files.

Bellow you can find a list of implemented and not-implemented features and a list of already reported bugs.

What is currently implemented:

Gedmo extensions for Doctrine2
Following extensions are supported:
- Tree
- Translatable use.
- Sluggable
- Timestampable
- Blameable user).
- Loggable
- Sortable
- SoftDeleteable
- Uploadable
- References (only direction from Doctrine2 to MongoDB ODM)
- IpTraceable

What is not implemented:

Support for MongoDB ODM - we want to test all extensions for Doctrine2 before extending support with MongoDB ODM
ReferencesInterity extension - because it's MongoDB ODM extension only

What we need to test

ability to import existing Gedmo extensions from existing Doctrine2 project
to check whether all definitions are correctly imported and exported
to check if we haven't miss any extension parameter

Bugs we're aware of

Currently none. We're awaiting your bugreports ! ;-)

Downloads

Latest ORM Designer 2 beta version is 3.2.5.1264

Windows

Linux

MacOS

Skipper is changing how an entity works from original import

Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:23:46 +0000

I am attempting to drive my apps db structure from skipper. To do this I need to get the app and skipper in sync.

My steps:

Import app to skipper
Export app from skipper to project
View changes, if any, to files

A number of entities were changed during this process and all of them except one I am able to resolve.

On import the entitiy in question looks as such:

 /**
     * @var HierarchicalRoleInterface[]|\Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection
     * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="RoleBasedUser\Entity\HierarchicalRole")
     * @ORM\JoinTable(name="rbu_roles_hierarchy")
     */
    protected $children = [];

    /**
     * @var PermissionInterface[]|\Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection
     * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="RoleBasedUser\Entity\Permission", indexBy="name", fetch="EAGER")
     * @ORM\JoinTable(name="rbu_roles_permissions")
     */
    protected $permissions;

On export back to the app, immediately after import. It is changed to the following which does not work:

/**
 * @var HierarchicalRoleInterface[]|\Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection
 * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="RoleBasedUser\Entity\HierarchicalRole")
 * @ORM\JoinTable(
 *     name="rbu_roles_hierarchy",
 *     joinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="HierarchicalRole_id", referencedColumnName="id")},
 *     inverseJoinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="HierarchicalRole_id", referencedColumnName="id")}
 * )
 */
protected $children = [];

/**
 * @var PermissionInterface[]|\Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection
 * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="RoleBasedUser\Entity\Permission", indexBy="name", fetch="EAGER")
 * @ORM\JoinTable(
 *     name="rbu_roles_permissions",
 *     joinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="HierarchicalRole_id", referencedColumnName="id")},
 *     inverseJoinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="Permission_id", referencedColumnName="id")}
 * )
 */
protected $permissions;

Essentially I want it to be left alone, is there a way to prevent it form being changed on export?

[Feature request] Export project as pdf with entityName + tableName?

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:30:35 +0000

I would like to export project diagrams with :
- entityName and attributes
- tableName and columnNames

In my case, they are almost always different. And a pdf export can be mailed to someone, archived, etc.

Example with parenthesis (could be on 2 lines maybe)

Entity (TABLE_NAME)
  id (id_col) : integer
  name (name_col) : string(255)
  enabled (is_a_bool_col) : boolean

Is there a way to print a pdf file with more data?
Or could it be considered as a feature request?

Thanks

How are people using Skipper within a branched Git environment

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:48:39 +0000

Hi all. We love Skipper and use it on an hourly basis.

Our most recent project contains a Git branch where we're developing a new feature which requires new entities and database tables. That means I need to update my Skipper model...

... But part of the way through development of this new feature I may need to make a change to the ORM model in the Git trunk. So we'll have two different versions of the Skipper model - one to support the trunk and one to support the branch.

Can Skipper cope with this? Is anyone else using Skipper within a SVN/Git environment with branching? Any tips?

Thanks
Dave Small

Is there anyway to export the table to a mysql structure?

Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:44:53 +0000

Using ZF2 / Doctrine Orm 2

My biggest time waster is generating Mysql tables for my ORM design. You would think all you would need to do is use Doctrine tools to export to your Mysql table however when a project has a handful of vendor modules and ACL programmes etc, this becomes an onerous task to the point where it is faster to build the tables by hand using WorkBench.

What I would love to see in Skipper is a simple way to export a mysql query that I can chuck into something like PHPMyAdmin and run a query to generate the tables.

Currently, I have to create these manually which is a pain :)

[Answered] delete associations without deleting field

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:23:37 +0000

Is it possible to delete associations without deleting field. I remember ORM designer used to ask.

[Answered] Convert .skipper to Mysql Workbench

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:16:18 +0000

I have been trialing your software for the last 2 weeks, however my trial has come to an end.
I hope to soon have the money available to purchase your software on a permanent basis but for the time being the bank balance doesn't allow. Having spent the past 2 weeks working on a model I was slightly dismayed to find the .yml exports I had done only contained the mappings between each entity. Like the following:

Products:
  type: entity
  fields:
    id:
      id: true
      type: integer
      generator:
        strategy: AUTO
  oneToMany:
    productsRecipes:
      targetEntity: Products2Recipes
      mappedBy: products
    suppliersProducts:
      targetEntity: Suppliers2Products
      mappedBy: products
    productsDishes:
      targetEntity: Products2Dishes
      mappedBy: products

My design had 20 seperate columns in that entity..

I was hoping there would be a way of importing .skipper files to Mysql Workbench but all I can find is ways of doing it the other way round.

[answered] How can I open an existing Shopware 4.x model in Skipper?

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:15:12 +0000

[answered] Ability to shrink entities

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:37:22 +0000

I currently have a entity with 30 columns. As I'm sure you can imagine having such a large table take a lot of space up on the screen. In Workbench there is the ability to change the size of each entity hiding or displaying as many columns as you wish. Unfortunately as far as I can tell, there is no way of changing the sizing of entities, which results in a rather messy looking ER Diagram.

Is this something you have planned on incorporating?

Edit:
Something like this is my current issue:

[Answered] Is it possible to export a project both for Doctrine as well as for Doctrine 2?

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:28:18 +0000

[Solved] What is the optimal bandwidth per user for Skipper?

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:57:32 +0000

Hi,

I am trying to establish what would be bandwidth consumption of Skipper tool.

Does Skipper support physical ER diagrams / models?

Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:08:08 +0000

Hello all,

Does Skipper currently have the ability to generate physical models, or only conceptual ones? I think the answer is negative, since I didn't found any reference to this on the program itself, or here in the support forum, so I guess I just need to be sure of the answer. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Thanks.

Can't create Foreign Keys

Tue, 02 Dec 2014 18:20:36 +0000

Hello all,

I've started using Skipper yesterday. Everything was going OK, until the program stopped allowing me to add more foreign keys to an entity. I can add the new field, but the "FK" column is now disabled (please see picture). This is even more strange, since yesterday I was able to set 2 foreign keys, on another table. I'm new to this, so does anyone know what's happening?

I don't have an ORM / MVC associated.

Thanks.

How do we add the Description to the phpdocs blocks?

Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:59:03 +0000

Is it possible to export the description of a Entity Field to the phpdoc block?

For example, lets say I have an entity called "Items" with a field called "UOM" and the description I put for the UOM field is "Unit of measurement". I would like to export as follows:

    class AbstractItem
   {

         /**
        *
        * Unit of measurement
        *
        * @ORM\Column(type="smallint", nullable=false)
        */
        private $uom;
   }

Even if this exect way of doing it can't be done, how would we go about putting the description in some sort of way in the attribute?

Error with a generated XML, Invalid mapping file, when adding a namespace

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:58:15 +0000

Hello, I'm trying to build php classes with orm:generate-entities, it all works well without a namespace
But when I add the 'entidades' namespace, I have the following problem

This is my xml generated with Skipper, "Cartilla,dcm.xml"

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<doctrine-mapping xmlns="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" schemaLocation="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping.xsd">
  <entity name="entidades\Cartilla" inheritance-type="SINGLE_TABLE">
    <id name="id" type="integer">
      <generator strategy="AUTO"/>
    </id>
    <many-to-one field="sucursal" target-entity="entidades\Sucursal" inversed-by="cartilla">
      <join-columns/>
    </many-to-one>
    <many-to-one field="nomenclador" target-entity="entidades\Nomenclador" inversed-by="cartilla">
      <join-columns>
        <join-column name="nomenclador_id" referenced-column-name="id"/>
      </join-columns>
    </many-to-one>
    <many-to-one field="coseguro" target-entity="entidades\Coseguro" inversed-by="cartilla">
      <join-columns>
        <join-column name="coseguro_id" referenced-column-name="id"/>
      </join-columns>
    </many-to-one>
    <many-to-one field="plan" target-entity="entidades\Plan" inversed-by="cartilla">
      <join-columns>
        <join-column name="plan_id" referenced-column-name="id"/>
      </join-columns>
    </many-to-one>
    <discriminator-column name="discrimina" length="30" type="string"/>
    <discriminator-map>
      <discriminator-mapping class="entidades\Comedica" value="comedica"/>
      <discriminator-mapping class="entidades\Osadef" value="osadef"/>
    </discriminator-map>
  </entity>
</doctrine-mapping>

This is my bootstrap.php file

<?php

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Setup;

require_once "vendor/autoload.php";

$isDevMode = true;

$config = Setup::createXMLMetadataConfiguration(array(__DIR__."/xml"), $isDevMode);

// 
$conn = array(
        'driver' => 'pdo_mysql', //driver de mysql 
        'user' => '', // usuario
        'password' => '', // pass
        'dbname' => 'cartilla', //nombre de la base de datos
        'host' => 'localhost'
);


//gerenciador de entidades
$entityManager = \Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager::create($conn, $config);

I get the following error when I run vendor\bin\doctrine.php.bat orm:generate-entities src

[Doctrine\Common\Persistence\Mapping\MappingException]
Invalid mapping file 'Cartilla.dcm.xml' for class 'Cartilla'.

Im on Windows 7 / Xampp / Doctrine 2 / Skipper

Thank you in advance.

[Solved] How to create an association with a non-pk field?

Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:49:03 +0000

Hello,
So far each time I create an association, one of the field is "locked" to the target entity PK.
I want to create associations with another field, which is likely unique, but which isn't the primary key of the entity.

Can entities be auto-arranged on import?

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:27:17 +0000

[Answered] How can I set attributes of the generated php classes as protected.

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:33:14 +0000

Hello, We are learning to use Orm Designer 2 and we have come accross a difficulty.

I was wondering how can I set the visibility of the attibutes as protected instead of private so I can inherit between objets in my models. Can this be done?

Thank you in advance.

[Answered]"Region" -- is there a link to documentation for what a region is and how / when I would use it?

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:51:34 +0000

I'd like to make best use of ORM Designer now that I have a license, but I haven't been able to find any "help" files in ORM Designer that explains what a regions is nor used for. I also didn't find any info on a "region" in the support forum.

Is it possible to migrate license from one computer to an other one?

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:13:34 +0000

I would like to have some more information about licenses.

I want to install ORM Designer on my two computers so I will use the 2 available license activation.
But I will soon change one computer and I want to be able to deactivate the license on the previous computer to activate it again on the new one.

Is it possible to do this?

[Answered] Why are all primary keys in derived entities missing after export?

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:28:34 +0000

Hi.
I have got two entities. Person and Employee.
Employee is derived from Person but contains its own primary key.
If I export all entities the primary key in Employee is not exported.

In all derived entities are the primary keys missing...
Is this a bug or an error on my part?

I am using version: 2.2.5.754

(Sorry for my bad English)

[Poll] Which ORM Framework will be supported next?

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:17:52 +0000

We're still working on ORM Designer and its new features. Besides the new features we also have plans to add a support for new ORM frameworks.

Tell us which ORM Framework you would like to see in ORM Designer.

If you have useful links, documentation, examples or ideas about a new ORM framework, please post it here.

[Closed] Good job on ORMD2 default foreign key name

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:10:41 +0000

This is just a comment that I appreciate the new behavior for naming foreign keys when you create a new association in ORMD2.

In ORMD1, it used to take the entity name and just append _id. Example

MyEntity_id

In ORMD2, you now convert that to underscore separated lower case. Example

my_entity_id

This is much better. I used to have to go in and change that every time by hand.

[Answered] Missing association option "show caption" in ORMD2

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:15:51 +0000

ORMD1 associations had an option "show caption" to show/hide the caption in the visual model. The only possibility to hide this in the current version is either
1. split the association
2. removing the caption value
Both options come with a loss of information. Would it be possible to have the "old" behaviour back in ORMD2?

[Answered] Type of data (datetime)

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:11:58 +0000

I have a simple question.
Most of time I'm using mySql for my purposes. And one day one of my colleague, who used "MySQL Workbench" tell me that it's possible to add (datetime) data type to fields in schema there, I searched for this information in ORM Designer (in version 1 and 2) but didn't find any information (except TimeStamp trigger).

My question or propose: Is it possible for now to add this type of fields, and if not it's good idea to add this type into ORM Designer.