Getting Started with Data Views
Learn what data views are, how to create one, and how to use the entity overlay to inspect your model's data structure visually.
Data views provide a visual representation of your model's entities and their relationships. They combine a graph-style canvas with an entity overlay that lets you inspect properties, types, and constraints in detail. Data views replace the older ERD and search view editors with a unified experience.
Why Use Data Views
Visual Exploration
See entities and relationships on a canvas, then click any entity to inspect its properties
Unified Experience
One view for both persistence and search concerns, selected by a simple mode toggle
On-Demand Detail
The entity overlay shows full property information without cluttering the canvas
Creating a Data View
The Canvas
The data view canvas is a graph diagram where each node represents an entity and edges represent relationships. Nodes display the entity name and a summary of key properties. The canvas supports: