Create a link outside EA to a specific package inside EA?

[Gary Cleal]

I want to be able to email or IM a hyperlink to a specific package inside EA to a colleague.
Is there a simple protocol to do this?

Thanks

[Geert Bellekens]

You could email the full path or guid (right click in project browser submenu Copy/Paste)
If you have EA Navigator installed you can use either one to find the element you are looking for.

Or you can search google for the EA protocol handler project that once existed but now seems to have been abandoned.

Or you could use the in-model email with a link tot the package

Geert

[Gary Cleal]

Thank you for your reply.
It would seem there is no internal protocol for handling this.

[Glassboy]

Another option is to use the default diagram as a scratch pad.

[Gary Cleal]

I kind of found a reasonable solution to this.

I had never noticed it before, but there is a File\Save as Shortcut
This lets you select items from the currently open Tabs.
It then saves this selection as an .EAP file but, it is not a database structured  .EAP it's a shortcut with the project connection String and a couple of guids pointing to the items you want opened.

This .EAP file is only a few kilobytes and you can send it in Email or Chat.

The receiver can double-click it and it will then open the repository and the specific place in the repository (obviously this is best used with cloud based repositories).