Globally change color of diagram elements

[Rakesh Kumar]

I have been creating a EA file. I have lots of use case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams etc. While creating them I didn't chance their default background (or so to say, fill color) color. Now, I would like to change them all together. For all "Decision box" in Activity Diagram I need one color, for all use case in use case diagram I need different color. Is there any simple way to achieve this?

[Geert Bellekens]

This is only possible for new elements (using the template package), or for stereotyped elements (using "Override appearance" in the Stereotype definition)

If you want to change the appearance of all existing elements of a certain type you'll have to create a little script to do so.

Geert

[Rakesh Kumar]

Thank you Geert for your response. Could you please explain what is the script that I could write and how to use it to apply color to existing elements?

[Geert Bellekens]

Rakesh,

I can't really explain that just like that.
I suggest you start reading here: http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/8.0/automation_and_scripts/automation_interface.html, look at the examples, and come back with specific questions or issues you run into.

Geert

[Peter Doomen]

I had exactly the same need. I solved it with a Perl script provided by Thomas Kilian, the person who also wrote the EA Perl addin. Works perfectly, look it up in the community resources:

http://community.sparxsystems.com/resources/scripts/extending-ea-perl