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Adding ORM Facts to the Data Model

Now that you have a Visio ORM template and the Business Rules Editor open, you can start adding the facts that make up the model. To add facts, you can click the Edit button in the Facts list of the Business Rules window, you can just start typing on an empty row, or you can double-click on an empty row and the Fact Editor will pop up.

The facts you're going to add are for a customer and products. To start, click the Edit button on an empty row in the Facts list to bring up the Fact Editor, which is shown in Figure 21.3.

Figure 21.3. The Fact Editor.

The Fact Editor is broken into five tabs. In each tab, you ...