Set Active (in MDG dialog)

[qwerty]

(As always: the help did not help in that respect which is why I ask here)

What does that mean? I see that I can turn one MDG to be active so it shows an asterisk in the list. But what does that mean? And can it be turned off again (did not see any way)?

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[Geert Bellekens]

The Active MDG is the one that is used in case of redefines.
AFAIK that is the only use for that setting.

Not sure if there's an easy way to set the Active to none

Geert

[qwerty]

It's always a bit of relief if even you struggle in answering my questions ;-) Any Sparxian that has some pointer to the docs?

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[Eve]

Sure, I'll give you the link to the page you get by pressing F1 when in that dialog.

https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/manage_mdg_technologies.html

Set Active

Setting a Technology to Active makes that Technology your default interface to Enterprise Architect, and can:

• Override various Toolbox pages (including those from other Technologies) with pages specific to the active Technology
• Redefine a stereotype in another profile, adding new tags and removing or modifying existing tags, while the stereotype behaves in all other ways as if it is the original stereotype

If your preferred Technology does not use overrides and redefinitions, it is not necessary to set it to Active.

Select and highlight your preferred Technology, then click on the Set Active button. This displays an asterisk against the Technology name in the 'Technology' panel, and selects the Technology in the 'Profile' field of the Default Tools toolbar. If the MDG Technology has not yet been enabled, this button also enables it.

[qwerty]

Thanks! I just was not aware that F1 would bring me there, so that's my fault. It also clarifies (as far as it concers me now) most of my question. Disabling does not seem to be an option. But since, as I understood, it would anyway be a no-op that would be meaningless too. (Still it's EAUI to not have an undo for activation.)

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P.S. To take a bit away the blame from me: on my VM the F1 is used from the system and does anything but open the help.