BUG: Release notes don't agree with Release

[Paolo F Cantoni]

There's no mention in the (EA 6.5(801.))Release Notes of the changes to the Set Feature Visibility...  The new Notes compartment (at last!) and the Resizing/wrapping features (cool)...

Looks Good!  

Paolo
[Edit: If you find any other goodies Sparx have hidden away - post them here...]

[potterm]

Hi Paolo - what do you mean by the new notes compartment?  Do you mean the long awaited formatted notes capability?

P.S. my Sparx support period just expired so I don't have the new build - I tend to wait until there's a new build that I think is worth upgrading to before renewing, but this just might swing it...

Cheers,
Martin.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Paolo - what do you mean by the new notes compartment?  Do you mean the long awaited formatted notes capability?

P.S. my Sparx support period just expired so I don't have the new build - I tend to wait until there's a new build that I think is worth upgrading to before renewing, but this just might swing it...

Cheers,
Martin.

No Martin, this is just the first step...

You can now have a Notes compartment on an EAElement, just like the Responsibilities or Constraints compartments.  EA will now display the Element's notes (up to a per element defined maximum number of characters) as (I think) the last compartment of the element.

For us, this is a vast improvement over having to manually muck about with Feature linked Notes (attached to the Element's Notes property).

The next step is to allow formatted EAElement Notes.

HTH,
Paolo
[PS: Pity your support expired, there are a lot of goodies in this release...]

[potterm]

Thanks Paolo (should have read your msg properly ).  This is indeed v. useful.  I'll probably renew my support and get this build, but not till next year now (only 4 working days left for me , so will probably not bother until 2007).

Cheers,
Martin.

[bioform]

Good catch, but I seem not to see any affect?

Tried setting "Notes" & "Responsibilities" on a Use Case on a Use Case diagram with no affect?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Good catch, but I seem not to see any affect?

Tried setting "Notes" & "Responsibilities" on a Use Case on a Use Case diagram with no affect?

Only works with Rectangle notation <Context menu>|Advanced>Use Rectangle Notation.  One could argue that it should also be available for non-rectangular notation but there would have to be consensus on how to represent it...

HTH,
Paolo

[bioform]

Yes, I see what you mean!

Really pretty cool... and with the "Tags" turned on it gets even better!

This actually is a nice way to represent a use case with it's realizations...

e.g.,  In a seperate diagram drop the realted elements (UC Trace to Logical UI, Business Object, etc. ), change to rectangle notation, set "responsibilities and tags" and I can visually see the "internal requirements" that represent the "business context" view of this use case...

Good alternate view to reviewing and getting customer sign-off...

Thanks again Paolo!

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Only works with Rectangle notation <Context menu>|Advanced>Use Rectangle Notation.  One could argue that it should also be available for non-rectangular notation but there would have to be consensus on how to represent it...

At the time I wrote this I somewhat mistakenly thought that you could Use Rectangle Notation with any shape.  But this is NOT the case...  (see, for example,: [size=13]BUG: Action doesn't have rectangle notation[/size])

Having now got used to the Notes compartment - which is a wonder to behold!; when you no longer have it it hurts!

As I said in the original quote, getting consensus could be difficult.  However, having NOTHING is worse...

Two points come to mind:

1) If you really can't have a Notes compartment for some vertexes, then a <Context Menu>|Attach Notes Feature Linked Note menu item needs to be provided, to create the Notes control connected Feature Linked Note in one go instead of the 10 or so clicks and drags required at present.

2) I really don't see a reason why a Notes compartment couldn't be added underneath any shape.  You could still control it by the existing means.

The key issue is that the user has determined that the want to make the notes visible on the diagram.  EA needs to make it as easy as possible to to do so...

Thoughts? Votes?
Paolo

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