Association between a model and a connector binding for use by the Preview functionality should be stored within the model -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: TEIIDDES-394 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-394 Project: Teiid Designer Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Import/Export Environment: Designer 5.5.3 Reporter: Greg Haber Assignee: Barry LaFond Priority: Minor Fix For: 7.1 The proposal here is that a weak association between a model and the connector binding it is associated with for design time preview functionality should be stored in the model file itself, and used to re-establish the association for preview functionality when that model is brought into Designer (such as when an import of a Model Project Set is performed). The association would be stored in the model with a minimum of information (just the binding name), and the proposed logic is that if there is already an existing binding in Designer with name matching that in the model file, the association for Preview will be automatically established with that binding. I have attached an e-mail thread between me and rreddy on this topic. One wrinkle here (not explicitly discussed in the e-mail thread) is if the referenced binding in the model does not previously exist in the Designer workspace, but _is_ defined by a VDB contained in the same model project set, and feature JBEDSP-287 is implemented (so that such VDB binding definitions do get brought in during import). It would be good if the association for Preview functionality between model and binding could also be re-established in this case. This would presumably require that the import of a model project set first import any VDBs before it imported design time models.