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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: seang on June 10, 2009, 07:27:33 am

Title: Linked document from Model Document in HTML Report
Post by: seang on June 10, 2009, 07:27:33 am

I'm new to EA, and just getting my feet wet understanding all the capabilities of the report generation.
Here's what I'd LIKE to do:

• In diagrams in various packages, add a Document element with a linked document describing the vision driving what is being described in the diagram
• In a parent package, combine all the documents into one.  I've got a Model Document setup to query on all Document artifacts which works well and produces an .RTF with all documents concatenated

Linked documents work very well in an HTML Report - a simple click gets you to your formatted document.  And it's easy - there's no worry or management about URL versus file path, and how those must change when authored on a local computer and then deployed to a server.

So I want the final result to be a linked document as well.  But I can only figure out how to produce an .rtf file.  I was hoping the Model Document would behave like a linked document, or if a linked document was setup its content would be automatically updated when the Model Document was.

Is this possible?  Or a different strategy?  If the .rtf file is the only way, I can't figure out how to reference it so that the reference survives both locally and when the HTML report is deployed, so advice on that would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Title: Re: Linked document from Model Document in HTML Re
Post by: Dermot on June 10, 2009, 04:41:34 pm

I am not sure I fully understand what you asking here, but the RTF generations from Model Documnets are for generating reports to be used external to EA.  If you want to import the results back into a Linked Document you could use the Scripter to write simple code to generate the report then import the result back into a Linked Document.