MDG on V12+++

[DavidM]

Hi Everyone,
I have tried to stay away from V12 Sparx for as long as I can. I have had v9 installed up until last week where we had to do  an upgrade.

I find it so much more difficult to use than the older versions, as do some of my younger colleagues who have also tried to stay on 9.
Anyway, in the old one, to view the currently installed MDGs and version was a very simple exercise. How on earth do you do it with the new versions? 3 of us have spent all afternoon trying to figure this out - combing the web etc.

Also - there used to be a search type feature I could type in something like "import mdg"and it would take me to the menu whet it was located, so I wouldn't have to remember the complex taxonomy only that is used for functionality.

Can anyone remind me how to get this back please as it has disappeared off my ribbon.

Thank you,
David
 
 

[Nizam]

V12 - Newer Version!!

in 12, the following are the menus
1. Generate MDG ; Tools | Generate MDG Technology File
2. Import MDG ; Project | MDG Technology Import or View | Resources | Right-click MDG Technologies folder | Import Technology
3. Configure MDG Technologies ; Extensions | MDG Technologies

if you are not seeing any of these menus, you probably have them disabled , in 12.X it was called as perspectives in Workspaces.

View | Perspectives > Workspaces or
View | Toolbars | Workspace Layouts:  (Manage Workspaces) > Workspaces

[DavidM]

YAHOO

We found it at last - 3 hours 40 mins totaled time (obviously x 3)
Under Configure-Manage - No instructions found anywhere, came across it by having to go through every single menu option

[Geert Bellekens]

I don't want to sound condescending, but have you tried searching the help?

I just did a search for "mdg" and the first hit was a page "Manage MDG technologies".

It might be a huge timesaver in the future as EA tends to move menu options around quite a bit with new updates.

Geert

PS. Why version 12 now The current version is 14.
That's like upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 

[qwerty]

That's like upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 

I'm still on XP and don't miss anything. It's just a carriage to run EA.

q.

[Uffe]

PS. Why version 12 now The current version is 14.

Weeeellll -- more like the current version is 13.5 and the upcoming one is 14.

Since the official release of 14 (build 1418) they've been rushing out bugfixes at the rate of one a week, so I'd let things quiet down a bit before I'd call it stable.

/Uffe

[Geert Bellekens]

PS. Why version 12 now The current version is 14.

Weeeellll -- more like the current version is 13.5 and the upcoming one is 14.

Since the official release of 14 (build 1418) they've been rushing out bugfixes at the rate of one a week, so I'd let things quiet down a bit before I'd call it stable.

/Uffe

Can't argue with that, I've been telling my customers to wait another month or two before upgrading as well. 

Geert

[Sunshine]

Yep same here. Told all my colleages to  stick to v13.5  for now until the teething problems are sorted.

[Eve]

Since the official release of 14 (build 1418) they've been rushing out bugfixes at the rate of one a week, so I'd let things quiet down a bit before I'd call it stable.

It's actually more like we've been actively trying to release a new build with any minor fixes that are available at a rate of one a week. The question isn't when it will stabilize, but how long we can keep it up.

[Glassboy]

It's actually more like we've been actively trying to release a new build with any minor fixes that are available at a rate of one a week. The question isn't when it will stabilize, but how long we can keep it up.

Some of us have to make long phone calls to a chap in India to get software updated.  Once we get a fairly newish copy installed we stick on it for a while.