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Tables are not linked when you use the Reverse Engineer Wizard in Visio 2007

Article ID:925177
Last Review:October 15, 2007
Revision:1.4

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Reverse Engineer Wizard to add several tables from a database to a drawing in Microsoft Office Visio 2007, the links between tables are not automatically added.

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CAUSE

This behavior occurs if the following conditions are true:
You add linked tables in sequence to the drawing.
You added a table that has a foreign key to a different table before you added the linked table.

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WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, perform one of the following actions:
Add all tables to the drawing at the same time.
Add tables that have foreign keys only after their dependant tables have been added to the drawing.

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007
Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007

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