Getting rid of 'anonymous' text

[Gary W.]

Hi,

While creating class diagrams, I'll often write little textual notes to point out certain features or issues with the model.  

So I now have some empty textual notes.. which I cannot find on any diagram.  I know they're there however because the RTF reports shows them as:

<anonymous>
public Text: [/i][/u]

I don't see them in the HTML reports, but I'd sure like to know how to find these 'null' text notes in the Project Browser so I can delete them.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Gary

[sargasso]

ctrl-F  - set the Search dropdown in the TL corner to note and leave the Search For textbox blank.  Sort the results by package and start working through them

hth
Bruce

[Gary W.]

Thanks!  

That got rid of some of the entries, but it led me to the solution for finding the rest.  I had to search for 'Text' as well as 'Note', and then I had to do a third search with 'Find Orphans'.

However, this still didn't get rid of all of these.  Does anyone know how "Tools -> Data Management ->  Data Integrity" differs from "Tools -> Manage .eap file ->  Repair .eap file"?

I assume I do the former before resorting to the latter?

Thanks,
Gary Wong

[thomaskilian]

Gary,
I just use the data integrity check from time to time since it obviously checks data structures of EA. I never used (had to use) the repair option. But  I assume it is something deeper/nearer to Access, because it is in the same box as the compact option which is simple Access functionality. My guess: repair is completely useless If you ever are going to need this, your database is likely corrupted in a way that nothing else than backup will help.

[Tjerk]

As far as I remember, repair only resets a flag in an MS Access DB. This is usefull in the case the Access DB becomes inaccessable (says it's locked) after some sort of crash, nothing else.

Sorry, don't have a solution for hidden notes, maybe only by searching the EAP file (= MS Access DB) itself using MS Access.