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darren.sampson

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How do you search for Component Diagrams?
« on: December 13, 2006, 10:51:42 pm »
Hi Everyone,

I have the need to find all the component diagrams in a model and move them to a different model within the same project.

I've tried the advanced search, but I can't see any way to find a particular type of diagram.

Can anyone have any suggestions, or should this be a feature request?

TIA!
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Re: How do you search for Component Diagrams?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2006, 02:10:41 am »
I can't test this now, but a SQL can likely do what you want. Check the t_diagram table.
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Re: How do you search for Component Diagrams?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2006, 02:18:43 am »
I'm sure that I can use SQL. It just seems a strange omission from the advanced search - you only seem to be able to search on UML elements!

In the end, I may end up using SQL to move the diagrams as well.  

I think it's probably worth a feature request!

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Re: How do you search for Component Diagrams?
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2006, 03:51:36 am »
darren,

As mentioned elsewhere, a diagram is not a UML "thingo" it's just a particular rendition of a set of UML elements and liinks.

From your POV its probably a "needed" thing, but from mine - where I might have 20 - 30 different aspect diagrams of the same structure exhibiting alterate architectures or different states of a particular architecture - its not really a simple thing.

As also mentioned elsewhere (maybe the same thread), the idea of stereotyping diagrams or some other tagging mechanism might go a fair way towards a good solution.

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Re: How do you search for Component Diagrams?
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2006, 04:50:01 am »
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darren,

As mentioned elsewhere, a diagram is not a UML "thingo" it's just a particular rendition of a set of UML elements and links.

Neither are half a dozen other EAElements that you CAN search for...

Darren's point is that Diagram is not one of the Kinds of things one can search for - neither are containers (Models, Views and Packages)1
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From your POV its probably a "needed" thing, but from mine - where I might have 20 - 30 different aspect diagrams of the same structure exhibiting alternate architectures or different states of a particular architecture - its not really a simple thing.

But if Diagrams and Containers were added, then their Properties would be accessible in the same way...
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As also mentioned elsewhere (maybe the same thread), the idea of stereotyping diagrams or some other tagging mechanism might go a fair way toward a good solution.

bruce
We do stereotype our diagrams, Darren's point is that you can't get at the Diagram stereotype using search.

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[Edit: 1Although Containers as Elements can be searched for, Containers as Containers ("Find all controlled packages in this tree") can't be searched...]
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Re: How do you search for Component Diagrams?
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2006, 05:41:00 am »
Sounds like a valid feature request (or several as the case might be). Who's the owner on this one?
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Re: How do you search for Component Diagrams?
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2006, 08:17:08 am »
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Sounds like a valid feature request (or several as the case might be). Who's the owner on this one?
Darren is...   ;D

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Re: How do you search for Component Diagrams?
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2006, 05:12:18 pm »
Yes - I know diagrams aren't UML "thingos".  But I would have thought an EA search tool should be able to search for EA custom "thingos"!

I'll put in the feature request.  Thanks for your feedback!

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