Use Case Numbering (Unique ID's)

[pitr]

Hi,

During our review sessions, we have a lot of confusion about the usecases we are talking about. We are used to having numbered Use Cases (manually numbered within Openoffice documents), and while we're trying out EA as an alternative, this came up as something that needs to be implemented.

Did I overlook something? Numbering them dynamically through the RTF export is not an option, since the numbers should not change and should be available in the EA interface as well.

I did try to dive into the RTF templating system, to create our own styled layout.. I won't elaborate on what I encountered ;-) Is there a way to manually edit the templates with a plain text editor of my choice?

Kind regards,

Pitr

[peter.zrnko]

You can use Settings - Auto Name Counters. Every new UC will then has a unique number (as part of it's name or alias).

For old UCs you can change names (aliases) manually or try to change them directly in project repository (eap file, DB).

[pitr]

Thanks for the help.

This is not really a very clean solution, though. I would like to have access to the number as a seperate field within the Use Case, and optionally restart the numbering within packages (or number packages as well).

I will resort to naming them manually, aided with the counters.

[thomaskilian]

We had a thread dealing with auto-numbering, but Sparx did not put this on the shortlist (unfortunately).