Document Generation Options: document each contained image

[Glassboy]

So have you achieved the result you want?

[skiwi]

Yes, I can now place in a document the notes from elements that are from entities external to the package the generator is using, i.e. this helps move towards the TOGAF catalogue organisation approach for models, yet supports the ability to generate documents from scattered elements from the model.
Its clunky, i.e. having to use a diagram as a container for the elements required in the document, (since the document generator only recognises elements at the granularity of a package).

[Glassboy]

Could you please do a quick write up of the steps involved so the rest of us can do it as well.

[skiwi]

OK, First I have a document template with two fragments (reused elsewhere). I need two fragments as packages and elements are treated differently in the document generator. Actually you don't need fragments at all, we are using them to improve consistency and maintainability of our generated documents.

[skiwi]

Then I have a package and a diagram.
The package contains a diagram from elsewhere (i.e. a different package) in the model, some of the elements in the diagram I wish to document as well.
So the package contains a second diagram containing only the artefacts i want documented.



The diagram setting for this diagram are



Generating a document from the package, or from a separate document model, provides the desired result.

[Glassboy]

Thanks