Display options that make more sense to apply uniformly to all Tables within a Diagram are provided as Diagram Display options.  Display options that are allowed to vary on a per-Table basis are surfaced as Table Graphic options (a Table Graphic is an object that is used to represent a Table within a Diagram).  For example, the Shadow option is a Diagram Display option, since you would most likely want to have all Tables (and Views) either display a shadow or not.  Whereas the Background Color option is a Table Graphic option, since you may want to give different Tables different background colors.  

You can view the Diagram Display options by selecting a Diagram in the Model Explorer and then selecting the tab in the Property Browser.  Or you can right click on the background of a Diagram and select Display Table->Properties from the context menu.  Since a Diagram can inherit its properties from a Diagram Domain, you can use the <default> Diagram Domain to change display options for all Diagrams (that inherit from the <default> Domain and haven't overridden the property - see Domains).

You can view the Table Graphics options by selecting a Table in the Diagram and then selecting the tab in the Property Browser.  Since a Table Graphics object inherits from a Table Graphics Domain (by default, the Default Table Graphics Domain), you can edit the Default Table Graphics Domain to affect the display of all Tables in all Diagrams.

 

 

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