Data Modeler - displaying comments in diagrams

Hi
Is it possible to display the column comments (in RDBMS) in the model diagrams. - Using view details I can control Attributes/DataType/ Keys etc. but I couldn't find a way to display the comments for each column.
Luke

You can't do this in the current early adopter. I have logged an enhancement for this.
Sue

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