Referencing EA Artifacts from Confluence

[SwissSteve]

we make heavy use of the Confluence tool as I guess others are also doing so I was wondering what is the best way of bring EA artifacts ( e.g. Class Diagrams, Component diagrams etc ) into third party tools like Confluence.

[Dermot]

Hi,
XMI is the primary import/Export protocol used by EA for swapping data with other applications.  Does it support this?
If not, you can look at simple CSV export of data or if you are serious, look at usinging EA's Automation Interface (API).
If you are referring to the Wicki application then EA's HTML generation might be more appropriate.

[SwissSteve]

Yes, it is basically Wiki.
Will have a look at the HTML generation.
thx

[SwissSteve]

What governs the filenames used by the HTML generator?
For example.  I have a filename EARoot/EA3/EA1/EA50.htm for one diagram.   Deleting the html output and regenerating and the filename for the same diagram is consistant.

Can I rely on this?   for example could I autogenerate the html output each evening to a know location and then link to specific views etc in my wiki page?

[Eve]

What governs the filenames used by the HTML generator?

The order of elements in the project browser.

Can I rely on this?

Only if you never change the order of elements, or add something before and element that has already been generated.

If you want to be able to create static links have a look at http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1206418390

I can't guarantee that it's what you want, or that it works.  But it might help.