Analysis Elements not available

[AK3108]

I am using the Evaluation Version of EA and when creating a Business Workflow Model only the following Analysis Elements under the Extended->Analysis tools are available:

Actor, Decision, Merge, Boundary, Control, Entity

What needs to be done to get access to the rest of the elements:
Object, Process, Collaboration, Send, Receive, Information, Information Item

[«Midnight»]

Two possibilities come to mind:

Since you've already got the diagram in place, just open up more toolbox items. With version 7.0 there is a trick, but you can do it easily.

Control-right click on your diagram surface (i.e. outside of an element). This will invoke a small context menu. You can add individual elements, or activate one of the other toolbox sections. Play with this a bit and you'll see how.

If you start another business process diagram, perhaps BPMN will appeal to you. If so, note that as of version 7.0 EA has BPMN built in. There will still be a BPMN add-in, but it will not be necessary unless you need to take things a bit beyond the core EA features. Search the forum for more information about this, and also watch the Latest News section for when the updated add-in is released.

HTH, David

[AK3108]

Thanks for the feedback, but I did not word my requirement correctly.  What I need to know is what needs to be done to get the elements to appear in the Analysis Elements toolbox

[«Midnight»]

I Don't think you can.

That said, try the first option I mentioned. You can do this from the very top bar of the toolbox (the one that actually says Toolbox on it).

This will allow you to add some additional tool sets, which you can pin to the toolbox. The elements these produce are the same ones you want. Not perfect I know, but it will get you by.

Meanwhile, take a look at the help file, in the section titled Extending Enterprise Architect - Software Developers Kit. Make sure you have build 816 or later. You can download the help file separately if you don't want to upgrade for any reason.

The SDK was only recently included in the main EA help file. This is still a work in progress, but it does address the toolbox to some extent.

David

[Eve]

You had me a little confused for a while, I've got all the tools that you want.

However, the problem is that you've got the ICONIX technology active.  This overrides several toolboxes including the Analysis Toolbox.

So, to get the rest of the tools you need to set ICONIX as not active.  You can do this by selecting '<default>' from the technology list in the 'Default Tools' toolbar.  Alternatively you can disable the ICONIX technology from Settings | MDG Technologies.

Finally, you can create your own technology with custom toolboxes.  If you want to do so have a look at http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/custom_toolboxes.htm.  The links from that page should describe everything that you need.

[«Midnight»]

Oops...

Thanks Simon. I should have thought of that.

I automatically set the technology to <default> when I went through the stages I described, so that I would not 'pollute' the environment. Somehow it never dawned on my that this could have been the case.

Fortunately you saw this post and quickly set us straight.

David

[AK3108]

Thanks a lot for the help Simon and David