Help with copying/pasting a view from one Sparx EAP to another

[Space_Fan]

I've got a question that hopefully has a pretty easy and straightforward answer.

So I've inherited an EAP file from another organization, and I need to take one of the System views from that EAP and incorporate it into the architecture that I'm currently working on.

However, I can't seem to successfully copy/paste or export/import this view into my current working file. Regardless of the method used, when I get the data into my current working file, I lose all of the linked objects, the only ones that are kept are the ones that are in that specific package. Is there a way to select ALL of the objects and references and migrate them out of one file and into a new one, or do I have to rebuild this thing from scratch?

Thank you for your help!

[qwerty]

Without being able to look into your and the ingherited project it's almost impossible to answer. Depends on HOW these are related. That is: were they created completely independent and how are those references (linked objects) defined?

q.

[Space_Fan]

Thanks. So the diagram that I'm looking at is a Class diagram that rolls up a lot of other classes from various subsystems. Those class objects reside in the packages for their various subsystems.

Hope that helps!

[shimon]

Hi,
A quick an dirty way to do this is by creating a new Folder, copying the diagram you want into that folder and choosing Deep ( or Smart).
I do this every once in a while to Archive a specific version. There are more elegant ( and proper) ways of versioning, but thisi suits my purpose.

Shimon

[Space_Fan]

Thanks for this tip, and I was able to replicate the diagram, but I'm still unable to move the copy from this EAP to the new one that I'm working in.