Text in created Document

[kwasposer]

Hello, i ve tried to find some documentation. How can you add text to the created Document in Enterprise Architect. I would like to comment / describe some diagrams.

Best, Kwas

[Geert Bellekens]

You are going to need to be more specific if you want any useful response.

Geert

[steen.jensen]

Each element & Diagram has a Notes field, Use that to describe your elements & diagrams.
Then those text are included i the standard Model Report & Diagram report.

[kwasposer]

I imagined to create a pdf document with enterprise architect v15. This document will have all my diagrams with additional description, like a real Specification Book ..

like this

[qwerty]

Paul McCartney? Ehrm. John Lennon?

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[kwasposer]

?
what do you mean? Is this to much to ask?

Paul McCartney?

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[qwerty]

Imagine ...

It's probably a bit too broad for a question here.

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[Geert Bellekens]

Look into document generation with the RTF templates:
https://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/model_publishing/rtfdocuments.html
What you showed is definitely possible, but making good professional templates takes some time and experience.

Geert

[Uffe]

Hello Kwas,


The built-in RTF document generator works with RTF internally, but can also output DOCX and PDF directly.

EA comes with a set of templates you can try, but they're really only demonstrations. In order to generate good documents, you need to take the structure and content of your models into account.

The RTF generator is the core. On top of it you can use either virtual documents, where you essentially create a model of the intended document, or the DocumentGenerator API, which means writing a script that pulls the data from the model and assembles the document. Both these approaches allow you to create document structures that are more free from the model structures than the core RTF generator allows.

But at the bottom of it all is always the humble RTF template. You will always need to design some of those. So I'd start by looking at some of the built-in templates and go from there.

HTH,


/Uffe