Updated Doctrine association property editor

ORM Designer 1.4.0 is almost here and we want to give you yet another peek of what is coming. ORM property editor is the core feature since the first release of ORM Designer but it can be sometimes hard to use and understand which values to fill. Especially association configuration (“alias” / “foreignAlias”, “type” / “foreignType”, “cascade” / foreignCascade”) was one of these cases. Some of these association properties were side-dependent and others were  same for both sides (in Doctirne ORM for example database attribute “onDelete”). From now on you’ll find side-dependent properties grouped by owning-side and inverse-side with destination table hint for better orientation.

ORM Designer screenshots

On the left side is old version, on the right side new one.

New property editor in ORM Designer 1.4.x

On the left side is old version, on the right side new one.

Detailed screenshots of side-dependent groups with selected direction assistant: