RTF documetnation keyword filter

[bcrier]

A filter by keyword option on elements would be very helpful under RTF documentation for selecting only a subset of elements.  This has already been requested under suggestions under "keyboard filter for reporting" Nove 16, 2005 under suggestions.

The fact that this feature is still not in EA may indicate there is an alternative.  Does anyone know of an alternative?

Thank you.
Bobby

[Weedman]

Do not know of an alternative. I too have requested filtering and/or conditional selections for RTF output as have many others in the forum.

I hope that SPARX will undertake this endeavor as more and more companies start to use EA for all aspects of the SDLC. The reporting of the requirements and functional design needs to be output in RTF format (prose of some sort) for end user acceptance/sign off. Its not enough now to just concentrate on the ability to output code and the class structures that developers and architects are concentrationg on.

Our use of activity diagrams to model use cases in EA rather than writing textual use cases still requires a textual output for use case sign off by the business/end users. The current RTF generator is very limited in its output and abilities to include elements and details not in the package being reported on (ie elements linked into diagrams of package being documented).

Regards,
Jeff Weedman