Discussing EA model on the Web

[Krzysztof Swiatkowski]

Are you aware of any tools that would allow publishing part of the EA model and support discussion over diagrams and elements?
I designed such solution by modifying HTML templates but I would like to know if there are other ways or tools to do it.

regards
Kris

[thomaskilian]

You could make use of EA's free reader version

[Paolo F Cantoni]

You could make use of EA's free reader version

Thomas,

EA lite seems to be locked down really tight.  It truly is immutable.  From memory, you can't even layout a diagram for a different printer...

Paolo

[Krzysztof Swiatkowski]

Thomas, I don't see how I could use free reader to support discussion over the Web.

Maybe I need to restate my problem: I need something that would allow me to do the following:
1. Publish parts of existing model to the intranet web server
2. Discuss published parts with dislocated team members both business and technical
3. internally modify the model and publish it again to the intranet web server, preserving the discussion

I can publish the model with HTML reporting but it is static. Current solution is to modify HTML templates.

Regards
Kris

[thomaskilian]

Kris,
if you need a basis for discussion the free reader would be fine. You could make the model available to members and they can directly look into the model. Then they post their observations to the central location where someone will make the changes with real EA. These changes will then directly be visible to others. Navigating in the model can be made as easy as in the HTML documentation.

[bmioch]

Just to add a note: From EA 7.0, the discussion forum should be fully working in EA Lite.

This may assist with your issue.

[Krzysztof Swiatkowski]

EA Lite is not a solution because it is not web based. The whole idea was to publish relevant information on the web so business users could discuss it without getting into too much details.
Modeling team already uses EA discussions to discuss model, but they needed to make it public.
I solved the problem by modifying HTML templates, and embedding simple discussions in PHP. I was just asking if someone had better solution.
My discussions are not integrated with EA database now, although it maybe the next feature to add

Regards
Kris

[bioform]

Just to add a note: From EA 7.0, the discussion forum should be fully working in EA Lite.

This may assist with your issue.

SWEET, very nice idea... Makes the use of EA Lite very nice indeed for getting customer feedback, etc.