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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Asperamanca on April 21, 2011, 10:26:29 pm

Title: How to specify defaults for new elements?
Post by: Asperamanca on April 21, 2011, 10:26:29 pm

When I place e.g. a new class from the toolbox, I want the language to be always "C++" not "Java". The diagram and package where I place the new class both have "C++" as language, still a new class will have "Java".

Same goes for other properties - I would like to define something like a "default template" for new classes.

How do I do that?

Title: Re: How to specify defaults for new elements?
Post by: Geert Bellekens on April 21, 2011, 11:30:29 pm

If you can't find it in the option lookup "template package" in the help file.

Geert

Title: Re: How to specify defaults for new elements?
Post by: Asperamanca on April 21, 2011, 11:54:35 pm

Thanks!
It took me quite a while to understand it in the help documentation, but once you know how it works, it's easy!

This seems to be a recurring theme in EA - at least for me: It uses various concepts that are very hard to learn, either because the help contains only very concise information on them, or because the information is strewn over a wide range of help topics.
But once you learn them, they are very powerful and work very well.

Title: Re: How to specify defaults for new elements?
Post by: Eve on April 27, 2011, 09:15:45 am

The Code Generation toolbar also provides an option for the default language of an element.