How to enable Enable Security

[Aleena]

I have EA ver 8 installed in my box and i want to view "Audit View" in the menu (View -->other project tools --> Audit View) but its disabled.
In order to enable it i went to security menu but all sub-menus under it are disabled. Even "Enable Security" sub-menu is disabled and so not sure how to change user permissions etc.  :-/

[Eve]

What edition do you have?  See http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/index.html#editions

[Aleena]

I had Professional edition 7 and i upgraded it to [highlight]corporate edition 8[/highlight]

[Stephen Kropp]

I would also like to enable my security and auditing options and am having the same problem. I am using EA Version 12.0.1212 Professional Edition.

I have tried running EA by right-clicking on the executable and selecting the "Run as administrator" option but this did not change any options for me.

[qwerty]

Maybe security is already enabled and you don't have privileges. What does

Code: [Select]

SELECT * FROM t_secpolicies return?

q.

[Stephen Kropp]

It doesn't return anything except for a blank "Property" and "Value" column. I should also mention that I am using a file-based repository but I couldn't find any restrictions on that setup with regard to security and auditing settings.

[PeterHeintz]

To enable security you need to download an enable string from Sparx (you need a login to do that).
I am not absolutely sure, but I belief to remember that the  Prof. edition does not include that feature at all.

[Stephen Kropp]

Thanks, I suspect you are right by looking at the description.

http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/purchase.html#Professional

And sadly this page also says that the Professional edition doesn't support auditing:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/13.0/model_repository/tracking_changes.html

[potterm]

Have you checked to make sure your model file (assuming you're using an EAP repository) isn't read-only?  We had a similar issue, wherein we wanted to test User Security on a copy of our model which is normally checked into SVN (the whole EAP file), so the working copy was read-only and this caused the enable security option (all options on that menu in fact) to be grayed out.

Just a thought....

Martin