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Manage MDG Technologies
You use the MDG Technologies dialog to manage the MDG Technologies accessible to the project and available to project users. The dialog lists the technologies held in a number of locations accessed by the project, such as the APPDATA folder and the Enterprise Architect Install directory. You can set these technologies to being available for use or disabled, as you require. MDG Technologies are deployed as .XML files.
Access Extensions | MDG Technologies
Configure availability of Technologies
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Technology |
Lists all MDG Technologies currently accessible to the project, in alphabetical order. If you click on a Technology name, the upper right panel of the dialog displays the technology:
The lower right panel displays a description of the Technology, in many cases providing the manufacturer's web site address and a support contact.
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Enabled |
Select this checkbox against each Technology that you want to be available for use in the project. When an MDG Technology is enabled:
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Clear the checkbox against a Technology to make it unavailable to the project users. If you disable an MDG Technology that was in use, its Toolbox pages, diagram types and quick-links are omitted from the Diagram Toolbox, More tools option, Default Tools toolbar, diagrams and New Diagram dialog in the user interface.
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All |
Click on this button to select the Enabled checkbox of every Technology listed on the dialog.
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None |
Click on this button to clear the Enabled checkbox of every Technology listed on the dialog. If you click on this button, scroll to the top of the list and select the Basic UML 2 Technology and Core Extensions checkboxes to re-enable the UML and Extended Toolbox pages and diagram types.
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Set Active |
Click on this button when you have clicked on one preferred Technology, to make that Technology the default interface to Enterprise Architect. This displays an asterisk against the Technology name in the Technology panel, and selects the Technology in the Profile field of the Default Tools toolbar. If the MDG Technology has not yet been enabled, this button also enables it. Making a Technology the active Technology can change the way Enterprise Architect windows are displayed and override the Toolbox pages with pages specific to the Technology.
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Advanced |
Click on this button to add MDG Technologies in folders and websites remote from Enterprise Architect.
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Remove |
(Enabled only for Technologies imported directly into the model.) Click on this button to remove the selected Technology from the list, from the Resources window and from the model.
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OK |
Click on this button to close the dialog, save your changes and put them into effect.
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Cancel |
Click on this button to close the dialog and abort the changes you have made.
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Notes
· | If you change the Enabled setting of an MDG Technology, or if you change the list of external paths, click on the OK button to reload all enabled technologies; you do not need to restart Enterprise Architect for the changes to take effect |
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