I have a moderately complex class model (loosely based on
Electric CIM, so that you can get an idea), and I need to generate RTF documentation from it and send it to the customer, so that they can prepare the data to be eventually entered. So, basically, they don't care about the whole class hierarchy: they just need the leaf classes to get an idea which elements they need, and which attributes they have.
By default, however, every class is a separate heading in the generated RTF. It is very inconvenient that, while looking at e.g. the
CircuitBreaker model, one needs to search the entire document to find that its grand-grand-parent class
ConductingEquipment has attribute
phases, which is also required for
CircuitBreaker.
Now, if there were "Show inherited attributes" (well, "inherited connections" too) option for elements somewhere in "Generate RTF report" dialog, that would be perfect for me: I would simply export only the leaf classes and the tables would have all the required data. Without it, I would have to subject the exported RTF to massive manual tweaking, which is, needless to say, cumbersome, error-prone and unmaintainable.
Is there something similar that I missed?
By the way, it's an annoyance that the "Generate RTF dialog" does not remember last used settings, so I have to re-adjust them every time I re-generate the documentation (and boy, I had a plenty trials-and-errors).
Jugoslav
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