MySearches

[Richard Phillips]

We are using an Oracle databse back-end for EA and I have a number of Custom SQL queries that are used by the document generator. I need these customer SQL queries to be available to all users. How do I promote or copy the search from the MySearches list to the common list of customer queries so all users can generate the documentation?

Thanks in advance
Richard.

[Aaron B]

The best way to share your custom search definitions is via an MDG Technology. This makes them easier to distribute and means that any later updates you make can easily filter down to the other users next time EA reloads the shared technology file.

At the moment, you need to manually edit the .MTS file to add exported searches to a technology.  See the information on Model Searches on the following user guide page.  (note: I believe this process may be planned for improvement in a future release)
http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/8.0/modeling_languages/working_with_mts_files.html

[Geert Bellekens]

Another (probably easier) way is to just export your searches and tell all users to import them.
Depends on your user base. If there aren't too many users this is feasable.

Geert

[Richard Phillips]

Thanks, it's a shame that there isn't a way to easily make public searches. Unfortunately, getting all users to import the search is not currently feasible so it looks like I have to 'learn' MDG technologies to do this.