Triggering export of images

[mn84]

Hello Everyone,

for a large project with many teams involved we decided, that writing our software-architecture-documentation in Markdown and maintaining it within the repository would be the best way to maintain and version this document.

We also do this because it allows us to trace our requirements into the documentation and the code.
When we build our project, PDFs and HTML pages are generated fom the Markdown files using Pandoc. This is triggered by our Jenkins.

For all Diagrams, we chose to use Enterprise Architect for various reasons.

In order to bring our graphics into our repository, we have to manually export them however (Ctrl-B -> Paste) which is a lot of work.
Exporting the graphics via script is something we have not explored but know is possible.

What we are missing, is a way to generate graphics via a remote trigger or an API that we can start from Jenkins.

Does anyone have tips for us?

Cheers,
mn

[Geert Bellekens]

If you search for "Jenkins" in the forum you'll find a bunch of topic.

The key is that EA only wants to work with an interactive user that has a license configured.

Other then that you can use almost any programming language to connect to EA and have it do stuff.

For something like this I would probably use VBScript.

Geert