Documentation templates

[cfillingham]

Hi,

I'm just in the process of evaluating Enterprise Architect and am wondering if it comes with a set of word templates for producing documents (eg Functional Specification) or do I have to set up templates myself.

Cheers Chris.  

[Sean Kearon]

Right click a package in the Project View, select Documentation | Rich Text Documentation.  In the dialog click Load at the bottom right to access the built-in 'templates'.  These are not quite Word templates, but should do what you want.  You can add you own too.

Cheers

Sean

[Chris Brandt]

I believe the default template is setup on the assumption that the documentation will be linked to a master document. The master document being a Word document with a company specific format.

However, I have had a really hard time trying to figure out how to modify the EA RTF template. I see the RTF templates but there is no documentation what can and cannot be changed. Or on the EA specific tags. And the RTF tags are a challenge to understand as well.

Are there plans to clean this interface up? Does anyone have a list of the EA tags so that I know what can be changed?

any help would be appreciated.

[sargasso]

Anything between # marks are EA inserted material.  The best way that I have found to cope with the rtf markup is to save bits of the formatted word document as rtf and then use a text editor to hack in around into components suitable for insertyion in to the EA templates.  Its a long and involved process no matter what anb you have to be aware of and cope with the many different versions of rtf markup and how they are interpreted in your users current MS word version.