MDG creation process

[qwerty]

The current MDG creation process is quite error prone. It refers to a couple of profile XMI files located on the disk. All these files usually come from the model itself. What you do when changing the model is locating the source package or diagram and save it to disk. The position of the file is not retained (instead it refers to a last-recent-location). So it often happens you save the profile to a wrong location. Then you create the MDG anew, restart EA and find your MDG not working. An often tedious process. (I'm just looking for the profile XMI which has been clobbered by one of the last saves.)

Instead why not saving references to the source packages/diagrams inside EA and invoke the generation which uses temp saved files to create MDG?

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[Paolo F Cantoni]

Shoot that man!

He's making sense!

Paolo

[Uffe]

I'll second, third and fourth this.

MDG creation is, frankly, pretty hacky and while it keeps guys like me in Rolls-Royces and Rolex watches I would love to see the whole process simplified. (Hint: it gets even harder when you get into searches, and deity of your choice help you if you want to supply model templates.)

In fact, all that's been stopping me releasing an Add-In to make the struggling MDG engineer's life just that little bit easier is the nagging suspicion that Sparx will get to this one of these days.

/Uffe

[qwerty]

At least two supporters. I'll submit an official request.

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