Using Document Editor in EA 6.0

[danwong]

I downloaded 6.0 trial and try to using the build-in editor to modify the rtf doc generated. But non of the editing function is working. Am I missing something?

Regards,

Dan W

[thomaskilian]

It's not an editor, but a viewer. You should use an external editor (like Word) to make changes after creation. You can modify creation template, but that's something different.

[danwong]

Thanks for your response. However, the propaganda for EA6.0 is that you can edit and view the RTF doc inside EA 6.0. In EA 5.0, it was indeed a viewer. But in EA 6.0, if you right click on the doc, a pop-up menu listing a bunch of editing functions will show up but none of them really does anything.

Dan W

[thomaskilian]

You first have to understand how it works. You can change templates where you define the contents and layout of the output. Then you generate the RTF. At last you can view it (either with the internal or with an external viewer).
Edit: I was not aware of the following

[Eve]

Hi,

As advertised, there is actually an editor in there now.  You can attach a linked document to any object in EA.  To open the editor do one of the following things.

Right click on an object on a diagram and select "Linked Document".

OR

Drop a "Document Artifact" from the toolbar onto a diagram and double click on it.  (Document artifacts are found under the Component and Deployment toolbox sections)

[danwong]

Simmon,

Thanks for the tips. One thing that I really hoped EA will provide (since the earlier versions) is to allow some basic text editing (such as indentation, bulleting...) in the property dialog. So when I create a use case scenario, I have some way of formating the texts in a more presentable way. When will that feature arrive in EA?

I really don't like Rational, but one thing they did pretty well is to allow you enter your use case in a Word doc that can be import into their Use case model after tagging.