add Initial in Activity diagram with script

[Cisore]

Hello,

I don't arrive to add Initial action in Activity diagram with VBscript

Code: [Select]

     dim actInitial as EA.Element
      set actInitial = diagActivite.Elements.AddNew("Initial","EntryPoint")
      actInitial.Update()

      dim diagObb as EA.DiagramObject      
      set diagObb = testDiagram.DiagramObjects.AddNew( "l=600", "" )
      diagObb.ElementID( actInitial.ElementID )
      diagObb.Update()      
But when I do that, on element are adding to the diagram but it don't have picture.

[qwerty]

You need to refresh the diagram view. There's a method in Repository for that (don't recall the name at the moment). Search for refresh and/or diagram in the repository help page.

q.

[Cisore]

They don't work.

I think it's not the good type (entryPoint).
For example, how can I add an Action with sub-type callOperation in one activity diagram ?  

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Late reply, but I hope this answer will close the topic. I was trying to automate the Activity diagram template creation and came to the same issue, adding ActivityInitial did not work:
   set e = d.elements.AddNew("ActivityInitial", "ActivityInitial")
   e.Update()
or as in the original post
   set e= d.Elements.AddNew("Initial","EntryPoint")
   e.Update()

What I did is a dump of manually created diagram with Initial and Final elements to find out that they have type "StateNode" and modified code as follows.

   set e = d.Elements.AddNew("END", "StateNode")
   e.Update()

But this code creates a node from a state diagram. After further search, I found in the EA-object-model.pdf in the description of the Element Class (on Page 114 of 280 in version from Date: 30/06/2017):
"For StateNode: 100 = ActivityIntitial, 101 = ActivityFinal" which leads to code which works


   set e = d.Elements.AddNew("END", "StateNode")
   e.Subtype=101
   e.Update()