Problem with "Alternate Image" export on check in

[hso]

In Tools->Options->XML Specifications it is possible to check the option "Export alternate images" which is usefull if you include screen shots in the User Interface model. Unfortunately this option is not checked when checking in a project. Thus the screen shot is not exported. Who can help?

[qwerty]

I wonder why nobody else ran into this problem so far. Some of our modelers make use of Alternate Images. As long as we had a central repository all was nice. But now we deploy the model on distributed local repositories. I tried to additional Export/Import Reference Data. This works and is important for Glossary and some other non-VC tables. (It would be nice if EA could VC those tables automatically.) But it fails for Alternate Images. So if our modelers work on local (EAB-created) repositories they have to restore the Alternate Images manually. Should I regard this as a bug and send a report?

N.B. There is an issue with exporting Alt. Images as Reference Data. While EA internally accepts multiple images with the same name (why in heaven?) it exports correctly, but it imports only one instance for each name. I'll report that as bug.

q.

[edit:] Some further investigation shows that on import the image_id is set to a random value. The diagram object contains the reference to the original image id (e.g. ObjectStyle = "ImageID=17;"). So if the image import would restore data correctly everything would be fine.