Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: eAndy on May 10, 2004, 07:09:14 am
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Please understand that I love the product but have a suggestion.
It would be great to be able to quickly dump in a bunch of attributes/operations without having to use the mouse.
The interface is a bit clumsy and requires you to use the mouse and multiple operations to complete something as adding an attribute as a property.
I'd be SOOO much more productive if I could add a new attribute and expose it as a property with one single operation that didn't require me to click or answer popups.
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You mean this: http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1075445984?
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well, I was thinking something like this would allow you to just blast stuff in. they'd need to have configurable defaults.
Let me have drop downs and check boxes for the 80% of what I do/need. As I tab past the last column add new row (like tables in word). Don't make me click add when more than likely I'm going to.
(http://expressknowledge.net/prototype.jpg)
If I'm sitting with someone and using the tool to capture info I can't be doing 6 clicks per attribute. That'll drive me nuts. Let me brain dump. If I need to tweak something I'll come back to it. But more than likely it will be the exception.
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Looks pretty much like something for the automation interface. I also could think of entering these data into Excel and then throw it into the model.
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I find that forward engineering to a tmp file, then editing with gvim (wayyyy faster than emacs :o ) then reverse engineering is faster than using this interface.
Rob