Hey guys,
Well maybe I'm a complete idiot, but:
In medium-to-large EA deployments I usually recommend my clients to set up links between related projects, and typically to establish one central project whose sole purpose is to link to all the others (kind of like a home page).
The way we do this is by creating Hyperlinks to files which are .EAP shortcuts (which in turn are simply text files containing an EAConnectString).
The problem with these is that they only work if you have access to the file (server) where they are located, which in larger installations is not always the case even if you have access to the database holding the project. Think WANs, think intranets, think external consultants, you know the tune.
Now you can also create an EA Command Hyperlink which holds a FileOpen command - but that only pops up the Open dialog, it doesn't allow you to specify an EAConnectString.
That, simply put, is what I would like: the ability to create EAConnectString hyperlinks.
They should ideally be proper model elements rather than just diagram objects, like linked documents, but I'll take them as Hyperlinks if that's all I can get.
Or am I in fact an idiot and is there already a
simple, one-click procedure to achieve this without going through an external file?
Cheers,
/Uffe
