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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: gregf on December 14, 2005, 01:27:06 pm
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I've created several activity diagrams using only Activity nodes. I'd like to redo these diagrams with activities as actions, so I can leverage Activties, Subactivities, and Actions.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
Greg
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leverage is a noun ... please ?!
;-)
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Yes, "leverage" is a noun, heavily used in Financial Services.
I too would be interested in doing this, but it seems the "Change type" option on the element advanced menu is only available when you have a single element selected. May be this is an enhancement request.
Following more general thread probably also applies
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1131225620
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Main Entry: leverage
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -aged; -ag·ing
: to provide (as a corporation) or supplement (as money) with leverage; also : to enhance as if by supplying with financial leverage
Ok, my usage is poor, but it is a verb...
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Mike 's not that bad. But probably he has a 2nd job as English teacher ;D
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It's both a verb and noun. As a noun in Financial Services it is equivalent to "gearing".
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No, I just hate its usage as a verb.
It presumably comes from 'leveraged buyout' where the value of shares in the purchased company is used to increase the value of the bid - or something like that.
The share values gives additional 'leverage' to themselves. That's fine.
But I increasingly notice it lazily used as a verb to just to mean "apply" or "use", without any concept of obtaining additional 'leverage' (improving a performance ratio by its own effort), and hence dislike it being used this way, since it properly refers to the property possessed by a lever.
Also on my hit list: "prepend" - what's wrong with the real word "prefix" ?
Have a good weekend, modellers !
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I leveraged my database skills to find a solution to this problem.
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1. Rename yourprojectname.EAP to yourprojectname.MDB
2. Open access database file with MS access
3. Open the t_object table
4. Update t_object set object_type = 'Action' where object_type = 'Activity'
While I DO NOT guarantee it's safety, this hack worked perfectly for me with no side effects, changing everything from an activity to an action. I presume you could hack this table to mass-change any object type.
I'm such a 733t h4xOrZ.
Yours in leverage,
-Greg
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Hi,
just a note: you do not even need to rename the .EAP file to .MDB, .EAP files open in MS Access perfectly fine.
What, pray tell, is "733t h4xOrZ"? :-)
Bruno
I leveraged my database skills to find a solution to this problem.
=)
1. Rename yourprojectname.EAP to yourprojectname.MDB
2. Open access database file with MS access
3. Open the t_object table
4. Update t_object set object_type = 'Action' where object_type = 'Activity'
While I DO NOT guarantee it's safety, this hack worked perfectly for me with no side effects, changing everything from an activity to an action. I presume you could hack this table to mass-change any object type.
I'm such a 733t h4xOrZ.
Yours in leverage,
-Greg
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What, pray tell, is "733t h4xOrZ"? :-)
I've never been able to read or write Leet, but I think a rough translation would be 'elite hacker'. Mind you do correct me if I'm wrong.
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No, a h4x0r is a small fine-bladed tool for cutting metal, wood or plastic items.
733t just means it isn't heavy.
;)
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Google shows this (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=h4x0r) ;D and many more results. What a small world!
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The item referenced by Thomas refers to people who are "lame".
No doubt this result from overuse of the "pedofile" tool referenced in the item, which must presumably be a rough-surfaced implement for abrading parts of the foot.
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I just encountered this, wanting to change a number of artifacts to classes.
On my diagram I can select multiple artefacts (yay).
The Element > Advanced > Change Type lets me select "Class" and then OK,
but .... (hush of anticipation)
only one of the selected objects actually changes
(sighs of disappointment)
not in EA 11
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I better not update my time to fix statistics since this would add 9 years for a (still not) fixed bug.
q.
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Perhaps this wasn't leveraged by a formal feature request? Or bug report?
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or perhaps it was, but no training organisations have requested it.
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;D
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Whilst greatly enjoying the level of pedantry here, you might also open the items in eaDocX/Excel, change the ElementType to what you want, then save them back. Has the same effect as changing the element type using SQL, but a little less scary.