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MDG Integr. for Office: connectors
« on: September 01, 2015, 08:52:00 pm »
Hi,

I'm testing the Word importer from the MDG Integration for Office.
I managed to achieve most of the features shown in the Webinar, however I came across the issues below.

I defined a Word doc with tables where each class can be created with a name, alias, notes.
The last 2 columns are respectively used to associate each imported class with a class and a requirement.

Association with classes from the same doc work ok.
However information from the 2nd column aren't picked up by the Word importer.

I identified the following enhancements on creating connectors:
- provide the ability to define the connector type in Word (association, aggregation...) instead of having it fixed in the Profil
- multiplicity support (e.g. define, 0..1, 1, *... in the doc)

Finally, I tried the synchronisation with Word:
- all the information doesn't get updated (e.g. Name, Notes). I actually only found the Alias to update ok.
- when I activate the Word Design mode, I can see content control that have the GUID information. However not all imported element have a control (this may explain the previous issue). Furthermore when you run a new import with sync enabled, you start getting duplicated and embedded controls.
- it's not clear what happens when you remove a class from the Word doc.


« Last Edit: September 07, 2015, 10:21:08 pm by gfuk »
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