Label Hiding, En Masse

[Nicole Tedesco]

When I model some particular information stratum, I may want to present that model to various consumers.  For an executive I want to hide and show different things than I would for a developer.  Part of an easy customization strategy is to provide a way of hiding/showing all label across many connectors at once.  At the very least, I would like a ways to pick and choose which connector labels I want to see across the entire diagram, for a specific connector (I already have that), and perhaps even across a selection of connectors.  Doing this connector-by-connector at a time is a colossal waste of my time!  (Besides, every time I change a diagram property or its note all the connector labels are visible again.)

[«Midnight»]

Desperately needed, and often mentioned in this forum.

That said, I don't know if this has actually been requested as a feature. Since you own this thread, why don't you submit the request to Sparx. From the EA menu use Help | On-line Resources | Request-a-Feature.

When you've done so, please edit your first message in this thread to let us know that Sparx is aware of the request.

Voting starts now: I'll ante the first one up.

David

[Paolo F Cantoni]

This is actually a subset of being able to anything to more than one edge at a time...

Go for me!

Paolo

[Dave_Bullet]

The only way I know to do this is, is via SQL.  This SQL hides all labels, but you could taylor it to your needs:

1. Save your diagram

2. Run the following SQL - replacing the <diagram_name> - with the name of your diagram (Note: - this assumes your diagram is uniquely named across your entire project)

update t_diagramlinks
set style = left(style, 7) + 'HideLabels=1' + substring(style, 7, 255)
where diagramid = (select diagram_id from t_diagram where name = '<diagram_name>')
and charindex('HideLabels=1', style) = 0

3. In EA - reload your diagram

Cheers,
David.

[Dave_Bullet]

This posting in the general forum using shape script might be your answer...

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1165490013

[jaguilar]

I'd love to have this functionality too and the SQL solution is not good for me since we don't have the Corporate Edition.

Does anyone have any info on it?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

I'd love to have this functionality too and the SQL solution is not good for me since we don't have the Corporate Edition.

Does anyone have any info on it?

NOTE:  You can't create update SQLs within the SQL query builder within EA.

Dave_Bullet's solution requires you to have direct SQL access to your repository (by means other than EA).  So it has nothing to do with the edition of EA.

We use MS Access to give us SQL access to our repositories.

HTH,
Paolo

[skiwi]

When I model some particular information stratum, I may want to present that model to various consumers.  For an executive I want to hide and show different things than I would for a developer.  Part of an easy customization strategy is to provide a way of hiding/showing all label across many connectors at once.  At the very least, I would like a ways to pick and choose which connector labels I want to see across the entire diagram, for a specific connector (I already have that), and perhaps even across a selection of connectors.  Doing this connector-by-connector at a time is a colossal waste of my time!  (Besides, every time I change a diagram property or its note all the connector labels are visible again.)

I wish