Status colors with pattern filling support

[Marcelo Mrack]

Hi,

Currently, we are working in a open source plugin that connect Jira (by Atlassian) and EA in a full roundtrip environment.

A very interesting feature in EA is a coloured statuses in UML elements, enabling a quickly visual feedback for the analyst.

In our plugin, the status of an element in EA is automatically connected and synchronized with a status of an issue in Jira environment.

Since they are connected and the issue extrapolate the due date, the respectively element in UML diagram receive a new color.

The problem in this approach is that differnt colors are assigned to the same status just because the due date has arrived.

Supporting pattern filling, the delayed elements (or issues) can be visualized easy, like this:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_gXrjXAx9S0g/R-8AbGzJ2QI/AAAAAAAAAgU/EAHaYRObQvo/s1600-h/patternStatus.PNG

In this image, we created some patterns over the status color. Note that the same color status are used for the elements, but the presence of a pattern distinguish the delayed items.

What is a possibility to add this feature (coloured filling with pattern support) in next releases of EA ?

[Biges]

So, how's the work going on?