3 days ago I wanted to generate some hibernate entities from an H2 database but couldn't work out how to do it so I ended up searching online and I found the answer here.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/generate-persistence-mapping-import-dialogs.html

Generate Persistence Mapping - Import dialogs

From the Persistence tool window: Right-click a module, persistence unit or session factory, point to Generate Persistence Mapping and select the necessary option.

Today I expanded my database schema and wanted to generate more entities but I couldn't remember what I read exactly earlier in the week and I couldn't work it out from the GUI.

I expected to right-click on a table in the Database tool window and generate from there but that didn't work.

I remembered something about the persistence tool window and right clicked on entityManagerFactory and on open space but there was nothing in the menu so I looked elsewhere.

I tried right-clicking on a source package under the New menu option.

I looked in the Code, Edit and Tools menu.

I tried Alt-Enter.

Nothing.

Then I had to search again to find the help and realised that the only way to generate the entities is to click on a specific node in the persistence tool window.

If you miss that then it is completely hidden from you.

Thats a pretty bad user experience.