EA inter-project referencing

[bsidhu]

Hello everyone,

1.  Is it possible to reference elements in one project from another project?  This is only to establish relationships between elements across projects.

2.  If there is a very large project, and it is stored in the database, when I load the project into EA will it load the entire project into my computer memory or will it keep it in the database until it is requested?

Any help or information you can provide will be extremely helpful.

Regards,
Bobby

[Eve]

1. Only by importing parts of the supplying model into the referring model.  See http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?controlledpackages2.htm.

2. It will get enough information to construct the tree, but most things are loaded on request.

[bsidhu]

Thank you for your reply.  Could I request you to look at my second post under the following heading “EA use for a large Corporate Archietcture project”.  That should have been spelt Architecture.

Any thoughts you can share on this related post are appreciated.

Bobby

[Dave_Bullet]

It would be good if Sparx allows external project references as a "hyperlink" of sorts - UNC, URI or URL based.

This would allow element and diagram navigation and sharing between EAPs or RDBMS models.

David.