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Wai1982

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Filtering by relationships and tagged values
« on: July 28, 2014, 11:43:29 am »
I have a model - in this model there are two types.

1 Validations
2 Files

A file has many validations and a validation can belong to one or many files.

In addition, each validation has a number of tagged values describing the validation (eg. ValidationLevel, EffectiveFromDate)

Now I can use the Traceability or Relationship window to see all the validations for a given file.

I can also use the Project Search to filter validations by its tagged value.

Is there a way for me to do both at the same time.

So for example, I would like to answer a question like "For File A, I want to find all the validations that have a ValidationLevel of 2"

If not, how can I modify my model to answer this question
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Re: Filtering by relationships and tagged values
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2014, 12:03:00 pm »
Have a read in the help file about "Matrix Overlays".

What you will be doing is creating a new overlay called ValidationLevel and giving it a list of valid values (e.g. "12345"), then you can apply the overlay on each cell and the value will be saved in a tagged value on the connector. (It's probably easier to do than to explain)
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Re: Filtering by relationships and tagged values
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2014, 04:44:57 pm »
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Have a read in the help file about "Matrix Overlays".

What you will be doing is creating a new overlay called ValidationLevel and giving it a list of valid values (e.g. "12345"), then you can apply the overlay on each cell and the value will be saved in a tagged value on the connector. (It's probably easier to do than to explain)

have you got more in depth documentation on what these matrix overlays are aside from here (http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/10/navigate_search_and_trace/matrix_overlays.html)

I'm not quite understanding the concept.

Also, once you create an overlay, how do you edit or delete it?