Announcing Early Preview of Data Model Diagram for Windows

Anonymous
2016-11-15T09:22:11+00:00

Greetings from the Visio Team,

We are pleased to announce an earlypreview of the Database Model Diagram (also known as Database Reverse Engineering) as an add-in for Visio, brought to you exclusively by the Office Insider Program.

We are looking for a limited number of participants to give us early feedback on this add-in experience. Listening and learning from our customers is a critical part of our product development. If you have great suggestions, already use Visio or just want to learn more, we encourage you to read on, sign up, and talk to us by posting below.

What will this add-in do?

The Database Model Diagram add-in lets you design a new database model from an existing one, and helps you understand the structure of existing databases, too. 

Database models graphically capture and display key database elements - such as tables and views that are related to each other - making it easy to create, consume and share new and existing databases.

How does the preview work?

The preview is open to all levels of Office Insiders, including Insider Slow and Insider Fast. If you are not a part of the Office Insider Program, you can still get access to the preview by signing up.

Is the preview available in many languages?

Currently it is available only in English (EN-*).

How do I send feedback?

You can send in your feedback in the following ways -

  • email VizDBRE@microsoft.com
  • post your questions under this announcement, where the Visio team will respond to your inquiries.
  • Visit Visio UserVoice forum to give suggestions, share your ideas or vote on submitted requests.

I'm new to Visio. Where can I learn more?

We welcome anyone who wants to give our early feature preview a try. Not familiar with Visio? No problem. Take a test drive with A beginner's guide to Visio and Tutorial for Visio 2016 to learn the basics.

I don't have a Visio Pro license; can I still try out the feature preview?

You'll need a Visio Pro for Office 365 subscription to try out the feature preview. Learn more and try Visio Pro for Office 365 from here.

Sincerely,

Visio Product Team

November 2016

Microsoft 365 Insider | Visio | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-03-17T20:43:52+00:00

    Hi Emmanuel,

    Please check if you are on a build that is better than 16.0.7571.1000 and above. If not please try to update your build. If it tells you that you are on a latest build and the build no. is less than 7571, please change your channel to current channel and the process is described in one of the posts.

    Also, restart Visio after installing the add-in.

    Thanks,

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-03-17T16:38:26+00:00

    Hello,

    I have Visio Pro 365 (version 60.0.7329 )

    I installed the add in from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Reverse-engineer-an-existing-database-into-a-database-model-fb034862-acfc-45bc-88b2-f33d1e1f8614?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

    After installing the adding, the template "Database Model Diagram" became available and the add in DbEnginer is loaded.

    Now, the tab "Database" does not show up, so I can't start the "Reverse Engineer Wizard".

    Any idea? Thanks

    Emmanuel

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-03-02T19:31:06+00:00

    happy to say that the add in is now working.  I dont know why and how, because I havent done anything since sending my screen shots to the tech team (see earlier) 

    all Ive done to date is generate a schema off of an Access database using the Generic ODBC driver.

    BTW there are only 3 options for drivers in the wizard that the add in invokes:

    SQL server

    Generic

    Oracle.

    not sure what the down sides of this are and wondering if additional "specific" drivers are planned 

    for later versions.

    but for now...looks good and good to have this back.  thanks so much for the team responsible (S S V N Raju etc)

    Moshe Arzt

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