A Child Graphic refers to the Graphic object that is used to hold display information for non-Column children of a Table that are displayed inside a Table in a Diagram.   See Diagram Display Options for more details.  For example, you could choose to display Key Constraints inside a Diagram Table.  If you do so, a Child Graphic object will be created for each displayed key.  Each of these Child Graphic Objects will inherit from a Child Graphics Domain.  Which Child Graphics Domain it will initially inherit from depends on the type of object it is.  You can specify that a Child Graphics Domain is the default for different object  types in the Child Graphics Domain property tab:

This screenshot shows that I have a Child Graphics Domain called "Child Graphics Domain for Keys" and made it the default for Key Constraints.  Now if I chose to display Key Constraints inside a Diagram Table, they will automatically be set to inherit from this Domain, and hence be displayed red and bold.

 

---

Page url: http://www.modelright.com