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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: fred on September 20, 2004, 04:00:33 pm

Title: documentation
Post by: fred on September 20, 2004, 04:00:33 pm

Is there such a thing as a user manual for EA? I already know about UML. What I need is a quick & dirty (or comprehensive) manual about each of the windows on the screen, how to show relationships among tables (e.g. primary key<->foreign key) and so on.

It should have useful info, such as

* how do I delete a 'Recent Model' from the opening screen?
* how do I get the data dictionary details into EA?
* should I import an existing oracle schema into a logical model or a data model?

and so on....

Does such a thing exist? I can't find it on the website.

thanks

Title: Re: documentation
Post by: fred on September 20, 2004, 04:07:28 pm

I guess I should qualify my request...I know about the online version, but I really like to read books. How do I go about getting a hardcopy? Having to print each screen in the browser is not a good idea. Is there a PDF version around?

Title: Re: documentation
Post by: KP on September 20, 2004, 04:15:45 pm

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Is there a PDF version around?

Yes, but it's not small, over 1000 pages. There's a link on the front page of this website near the bottom, or just click here: http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/bin/EAUserGuide.pdf

Title: Re: documentation
Post by: fred on September 21, 2004, 09:21:04 am

Did SparxSystems inhibit the SAVE option or is it on my side?

I'm not always near an online connection, that's why a local copy and/or printed copy is so useful.

Title: Re: documentation
Post by: CJ on September 21, 2004, 10:00:12 am

G'day Fred,

I just saved it to my local drive, no problems.

Title: Re: documentation
Post by: johnr on September 21, 2004, 03:15:07 pm

To save the .pdf file right click on the link and then choose the "Save As" option. In addition the help file included with EA contains the same information as the .pdf help file.