Large notes

[jramosd]

Hello,

I would like to see if anyone can give suggestions on how to solve thee following:

I am documenting the data model of an application for a SQL optimization and general database performance assesment. I have created several class diagrams, one for each of the the main objects in the application, showing related database tables.

I have then created some sequence diagrams for the most important processes in the application. These diagrams are linked with the previous class models.

Now, for each of these processes I want to provide a link in my sequence diagram to a LARGE amount of text containing the all the SQL the application issues for the process.

I am trying to do it with notes, but they will not accept as much text as I need to paste inside ( about 2 - 3 MB sometimes ).

How would you do this in EA? Linking to an external file?
Is there any other way so that  I can distribute just one
large file with all the content?


Thanks for your help

Javier Ramos

[thomaskilian]

Javier,
I would stick to extenal files since Notes are just Notes (). There is no convenient way to navigate in the Notes. If it is more than 1K I'd suspect, something is wrong with the model. Working with external files is quite okay. I have a subdirectory "Supplementary Doc" near my model where I place such files with a relative path. When I distribute the model I can pass a zip with the model and the directory.

[jramosd]

Thanks for your reply, Thomas.
This is what I was actually trying to do.
However, I cannot manage to add in a diagram a hyperlink to a .txt file with a relative path.

If I use the full path, the link is followed when I double click it ( Notepad is alunched to open the text file ). If I set the path to be relative to the folder where the model is, then it will not work...

How do you do it?

Regards,

Javier

[thomaskilian]

I have no problem doing that. If the model is at C:\test.eap and your file is at C:\test.txt you have to change the path to ".\test.txt". You can go to any relative directory using . and .. as directories.