Change propagation to linked elements

[mikewhit]

When making changes to a model, it's important to ensure that any linked elements are updated accordingly.

Can I suggest that there could be a command (button? menu?) causing a task to be generated against every element linked/dependent on the selected element.

This would allow each consequence to be checked, and the task for element in question cleared - or in turn passed on again - but then how to stop backtracking ?!

Oh well !

[Oscar]

Would checking and marking elements before you make a change to an element help you ?

See this thread how to mark an element:

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgiboard=general;action=display;num=1096930649

HTH,
Oscar

[mikewhit]

I think your link should have been http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1096930649 (missing '?' after YaBB.cgi)

I was just after something that could mark the all linked objects for me - I could probably go through and look up all the references to the element and then mark them all by hand, but how tedious and error-prone is that ?

The whole point of an IDE is to simplify useful but otherwise laborious tasks so that you hardly notice them !

Now I have seen that I can talk to EA using Perl and "use Win32::OLE" perhaps this is the kind of thing I could knock up - but I'm too busy on the Real work of the project !

(see http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Automation;action=display;num=1096035939)

[thomaskilian]

mikewhit,
this PERL thingy is working great. I just started working out some PERL classes to deal with EA repositories. The only thing I couldn't get hold of was the command line. I had to call a BAT-file to invoke my perl code. Thus I was able to get the $p parameter.