How to change the default naming style of component instances in PowerDesigner 15.x?

Question

By default, when dragging existing components into different PowerDesigner models (e.g. deployment), the component instance is named as ComponentInstance_X where X is an incremental counter. How can I change this naming style to something different such as ComponentType::X?

I use version 15.1 of PowerDesigner.

Answer 1

It's not a complete answer (and I've just verified part of it with 15.2 but...)

You could create/attach an extension to your model, with an event handler "Initialize" on the ComponentInstance metaclass.

This event handler would allow you to modify the name/code of the instance as it is created...