Generate Referenced Digrams

[gluzm]

Hi all,

I am struggling to put together a template design for Requirements Specification. So far I am able to display all the requirements, which is not big improvement to the original template 

However my goal is to attach on the end of the Specification some diagrams as well.
These diagrams are not in the Requirements package but are there as referenced diagrams. “Pick up a diagram and move it over another diagram in the small pop up select Diagram Reference”.

These diagrams are then nicely displayed as any other element in the package, with yellow fragment icon, however if I try to generate the documentation they do not end up on the report.

Does anybody know? Or how are others maintaining the referenced items?

Thank you
Jan

[nara_c]

One way to do it is to establish a realisation link between your requirements and other elements so that related elements appear in your Requirements report.

Here is some text from the EA Help file related to Implementation".

"Requirements are implemented by model elements - such as Use Cases, Classes, Interfaces, Components, etc. You may specify this relationship in EA using the Realization link. A model element is marked as 'Realizing' a requirement. Once this link exists, EA will display the requirement in the element Responsibilities tab, in the requirement hierarchy tab and in the dependency and implementation reports, as well as the standard RTF output.

A quick method of generating a Realization link is to drag a Requirement element from the Project Browser over an element in a diagram which is to be the implementing element. EA will interpret this as a request to create the realization link and do so automatically. To confirm this, perform the action, and then go to the Responsibilities tab page of the target element - there should now be an external relationship to the requirement that was dragged over the target."

Once you have establised realisation links this way, you will be able to generate them in your documents by ensuring that "Connector" is ticked in the RTF generator sections and adding the required sub-sections.  I think they will appear in the default template already if the realizations are created.

For an example of how this is implemented you can refer to the EAEample model if you have version 5.5+

HTH