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paddler

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Extracting entry points into reports
« on: March 15, 2012, 04:10:44 am »
Hi

This is my first time using the structured scenario functionality offered by EA ( I am used to simply managing the flows myself). So, I have used the structured scenarios and created a basic and several alternate paths. On the Structured Scenario tab of the use case the entry point for each alternate flow is shown. When you go into the alternate flows though, instead of numbering from the entry point (say 3a) it starts from 1

So, I run my report which pulls out the structured scenario as
"Use Case Scenarios
scenario >

{ElemScenario.Scenario}    {ElemScenario.Type}
{ElemScenario.Notes}
      structured scenarios >
>>>>>      {Scenario_Structured.Step} {Scenario_Structured.Action}  
      < structured scenarios

      < scenario"

And the output looks like

Basic Path    Basic Path
1   User navigates toProgram  home page
2   System displays relevant contextual data as well as two text search boxes (Organization/Facility Name and Postal Code) with search buttons. A "More Search Options" link is also shown  
3   The user enters data into one or the other text box and selects search  
4   The system displays the Facility Result Listing Page with facilities matching the query attributes  
      
      

No search criteria specified    Alternate
      
1   User enters no search criteria and selects "Search"  
2   The system displays a warning that search criteria must be specified (?? Is this what the client wants?? Today the system simply returns no results..)  

Note that there is no entry point noted in the output and I cannot find the database field which corresponds to "Entry Point Step" on the Structured Scenario tab of the Use Case???

In this example, I would want the entry point "3a" displayed just before the "Alternate Path" text

How can I display the entry points in a report without resorting to manually drafting the scenarios myself??

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« Last Edit: March 15, 2012, 04:27:02 am by 123pault456 »
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Re: Extracting entry points into reports
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2012, 04:51:44 am »
After an hour of looking through the manual (useless) and trying on my own I am simply NAMING an alternate or Exception branches with the number of the Main Scenario step from which they branched...

Ex

Basic Path   Accomplish something
1.
2.
3.

Alternate  2a. Accomplish something else

etc etc
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Re: Extracting entry points into reports
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2012, 10:17:27 am »
Yup. We did it the same way.

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Re: Extracting entry points into reports
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2012, 07:18:24 pm »
The way that I did this was to create an addin that wrote the required documentation into the notes field of the use case