How to insert a often used Text in different Docs

[Eric_S.]

Hi my name is Eric.
I'm a student from Berlin (Germany)

I have to create a lot of RTF documents in EA.
A Part of the text is used by much of these documents.
Because of these texts become changed very often, I don’t want to write these information as a text into all the Documents. May be it is possible with an "Element Tag".

I would like to handle it like all the other Informations in EA (like the Requirements,...)
So if I will change something in the text, It should change the texts in all my Documents automatically.

I hope you understand my problem.  :-/
And I hope that I did not made too much orthographically and grammatically mistakes  

THX to all
Eric

[Jan ´Bary´ Glas]

Hi Eric from Berlin,

if I understand you well you have one part of your EA model that you need in more Word documents. My best practice is to report such a part of model as a separate RTF document and insert that file as a link to your main Word documents.

There is no automation in EA to update these links. But it is quite OK to update the output after any change and update the links (you may also create a macro for automatic update of all links "on open" of your Word files.

HTH,
  Bary from Prague, the Czech Republic

[Eric_S.]

Yes that is my Problem

Thank you for your Help - I'll try to do it like you described.

Eric

[Jan ´Bary´ Glas]

Try http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/downloads/whitepapers/Working_with_the_RTF_generator.pdf white paper. It may help.

[Eric_S.]

that's a great pdf... thanks

The chaper 7 "Documenting Linked Documents and Document Artifact Elements" desctibes a perfect solution for my problem.
First I have inserted a "Document Artifact" into one of my Packages.
Than I have created a new "Linked Document Template" with a short text (which is representing the text which is used my much Documents).
Than I have linked these Document to the Document Artifact.
Than I have inserted the Model document Tags into one of my Templates.
If I generate the document the text of the linked document templates will become insert between the model document Tags

Thanks for you help
Eric