Asking for your opinion about managing a UMLmodel

[manfredw]

Thank you Robert!

I think I will in fact reconsider the tags etc in our model.
I never paid attention to the bulk status update dialog! Thank you for thr hint.
Funny, I have written a similar one in an add-in for our tags  

I'll explore the SQL searches a bit, together with RTF fragments they seem indeed very interesting!

[OpenIT Solutions]

When you generate your RTF the diagram placed into the document will have the current selected/active diagram filters applied.

You can also / as well - use Model Search results in virtual/model documents as disucssed on this thread to limit the data in your report. So you could wirte a search that returns all elements that have R1 in their phase column, then use the search in model document.

A simpler approach given your requirment would be to use the Doccumentation->Generate Documentation->Element Filters tab to add an appropriate filter to your diagram, ie Phase contains R1.

Regards,

Jon.

[manfredw]

Hi Jon,

thank you four your information!
Your first statement cannot be used here because the documentation will be run by different people in different situations where the diagram filter is not sure to be set.

However the rest is very instructive!

After considering all the hints and comments from everybody, it seems to me as if the key to a solution is:
 - using properties or tags to store the release(s) of which an element is part of
 - use searches and/or filters to extract these elements for a given rtf template.

Many thanks to everybody involved!  

best regards
Manfred