Replication Farce

[vickyp]

Can someone please explain to me how one can use a product that randomly deletes packages without warning (and without giving the option to save the new horribly mangled version as a different name)?!

If it weren't for the fact that I take backups, I would have lost all my work.

This doesn't inspire confidence in the product....

...and don't even get me started on the documentation tool.

I'll be interested if I actually get a reply to this from anyone other than other disgruntled users - looking through the forum history, replication issues seem to be ignored.

[thomaskilian]

Not really,
the missing Undo has been and is discussed in this forum. Probably you are right that deletion of packages should ask back. On the other hand it is not so easy to select deletion (right click and navigate to the delete option). Having done so - I guess - you must have been dreaming on doing it accidentially - and guess too - you would have answer YES to the "do you really really want to delete?".

[Bruno.Cossi]

Vicky,

I am not sure what problems with deletion of packages are you referring to and therefore can't comment beyond stating that neither me nor any of dozens of the users I work with on a daily basis ever had a problem alongside those lines.
As far as the documentation features go, they are far the best that I have seen in a modeling tool (maybe just slightly ahead of PowerDesigner) and I have never had any complaint about it.
Perhaps studying the documentation and help file would be useful.

Bruno

[angel-o-sphere]

I used replication a lot with EA 3.5x .... I never had a problem.

You should elaborate what your problem is: do you have stored your model in an Access or JET database or in an Oracle/Postgress etc. DB?

What do you mean with "randomle deleted packages"? You imply they just disappear?

Did you write to tech support of Sparx or just here in the forum? If so: where you similar polite like here?

Your problme sounds serious and Sparks surely had moved hell to help you .... and as far as I know no one here ever had a similar problem, probably just your disk is corrupted or the DB fiel and you could fix it with export to XMI and reimporting it into a new file .... or you can try the "repair" menu of EA.

Anyway .... hope that helps.

angel'o'sphere

[Tjerk]

Hi,

In the beginning of my use of EA (more than two years ago), I also experienced disappearing data. With that, I also encountered corrupted Access databases.

In that time, I used Jet3.5 with an Access database on a remote server. The problem seemed to be related to slow or corrupt networks. From what I've read, the Jet engine cannot guarantee lossless communication.

Is your situation like the one above? Then try a different database (corporate EA version) or a more stable network.

Greetz,
Tjerk