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Project Shortcuts

Enterprise Architect enables you to create a desktop shortcut (or proxy file) to a real Enterprise Architect project (DBMS or file-based). Each shortcut is a file containing the connection string for the model.

However, the shortcut also defines views that Enterprise Architect should open when it opens the model, as outlined below.

Topics:

View

Detail

See also

Diagrams

Define one or more specific diagram(s) to be loaded on Open

 

Model Search

Open the Model Search with a specific text string and search type

For searches operating on the current tree selection, a diagram in the target package must be opened first.

If you use a custom SQL search, the SQL must include ea_guid AS CLASSGUID and the object type

You cannot define more than one Model Search to open

Model Search

The Relationship Matrix with a saved profile

Open the Relationship Matrix with a saved profile

You cannot define more than one Relationship Matrix profile to open

Relationship Matrix

The default Team Review

Open the default Team Review document

You cannot define more than one Team Review to open

Team Review Tools

An example shortcut

You might create a shortcut to open, in sequence:

  • A Development module
  • The Model Search for a simple search on the term Issue
  • The module Issues diagram
  • The module Changes diagram

Enterprise Architect opens the appropriate windows in the sequence in which you list the options, displaying the last view in the list

In this example, the project opens with the Enterprise Architect work area showing the two diagram tabs and the Model Search tab, and with the Changes diagram displayed in the Diagram View

 

Notes:

  • If specified, the shortcut views override any default diagram defined for the model or current user
  • A shortcut does not affect the original Enterprise Architect .exe file or icon, or any other shortcut you might have defined; you can use all of these independently
  • When you use a shortcut to access a project that you have recently opened in Enterprise Architect, the Recent list on the Enterprise Architect Start Page has two entries for the project - one created when you opened the project in Enterprise Architect and one created when you used the desktop shortcut
  • If you are using a database repository other than MS Access 97, 2000 or 2003, you can configure the shortcut to encrypt the password used to set up the connection between Enterprise Architect and the repository; the Enterprise Architect user does not have the real password, thereby preventing them from accessing the repository using other tools such as Query Analyzer or SQLPlus

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