Custom Databases

[Luminaire]

Hi there

I've been evaluating EA for my company (and have been very impressed), but I have some questions.

I have been setting up custom database datatypes, and I cannot find where these are stored.  In order to deploy EA across the company, it will be necessary to also deploy these custom datatypes.  I thought that they would be stored in the %EA Base%\ddl_datatypes.xml file, but a text search for the database name does not find any results.

I do not wish to manually enter each datatype for every new client installation!

Could you tell me how to distribute these settings to other clients.

Many Thanks
Alan

[thomaskilian]

Alan,
I haven't done this but look what Tools/Export Reference Data/Model Data Types can do for you. The produced XML-file can edited, changed and re-imported.

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hi Alan,

the datatypes (as well as all the other configuration data) are stored within the EA project, i.e. either an EAP file or a DBMS repository if you use one. If all of your users work on the same EA project, they will share the datatypes automatically.
If the users within your company do not share the same EA file/repository, you could setup a template EAP file that contains all your datatypes and have the users use it as a template when creating a new project.

Hope this helps!

Bruno

[mchiuminatto]

Execute the folowing command in a SQL clieent connected to your EAP (MS Access) or your DBMS repository:

select * from t_datatypes