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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: thomaskilian on September 18, 2007, 09:47:37 am

Title: Invisible elements
Post by: thomaskilian on September 18, 2007, 09:47:37 am: Hi all,
by coincidence I found out that my model contains hundreds of unused boundaries in a packages. What's making the situation bad is that you can not see them in the browser (I stumbled over a slow collection iteration that made me print the elements via automation -> see here (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Automation;action=display;num=1190140823)).

I will report that as bug to Sparx as there should not be any unvisible element be left over. And yes: the integrity check did not find these zombies.
Title: Re: Invisible elements
Post by: Eve on September 18, 2007, 12:59:22 pm: Did the 'Find Orphans' search find them?

The integrity checker isn't expected to find orphaned elements.
Title: Re: Invisible elements
Post by: thomaskilian on September 18, 2007, 10:45:21 pm: I used automation to delete them, so I currently can't verify (except with restoring a previous version, but no time for that). However, there are also zombie notes which the Orphan find does not reveal. I suspect it would be the same with the boundaries.
Title: Re: Invisible elements
Post by: Eve on September 19, 2007, 01:02:26 pm: I think I remember that one of the early 7.0 builds was leaving behind elements that belong only to the diagram. (eg. boundaries and notes)

If I'm right then you shouldn't see any new ones coming up.
Title: Re: Invisible elements
Post by: thomaskilian on September 20, 2007, 02:27:45 am: That might be an explanation. I will watch out for that and eventually come back with additional info.