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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: tstuefe on January 29, 2004, 10:59:44 pm

Title: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: tstuefe on January 29, 2004, 10:59:44 pm

This often happens to me:
I want to enter a bunch of attributes or operations. Often they are similar, so it would be cool if I could:
- enter one attribute/operation
- change it a bit
- save it again as new, not overwriting the first one
- and so on...

...thomas

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: thomaskilian on February 17, 2004, 10:03:48 am

Just working like described by Thomas above. I also would like to have it this way! Furtheron: Save should always work this way. Anytime I add multiple attributes I happen to hit SAVE, enter the next attribute and press SAVE - oops. My previous attribute is overwritten! :-/ I missed to press NEW.

Wouldn't it be fine to have it work like described above. I remeber some previous complaints about this behaviour.

Thomas K.

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: thomaskilian on March 18, 2004, 03:26:07 am

Probably Thomas S. and me are the only ones that enter new data as described above  ??? I just missed this "Save as new" button again while entering new attributes for an enumeration (to name an example).  Would be really conventient to have it!

Cheers, Thomas K.

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: sargasso on March 18, 2004, 09:37:04 pm

Add my vote!

Also, needed is

• the ability to copy elements and features in the project browser using ctl-drag (say)
  
• the ability to have more than one copy of an element in a diagram (already mentioned elsewhere in this list and now specifically allowed in UML 2)
  
• the ability to drag features (including ctl-drag) from within diagram elements
  
• all of the above but with mulitple select
  
• did I mention multiple select
  

Bruce

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: Stephen on March 19, 2004, 06:07:26 am

Add my vote for all of Sargasso's items
esp. more than one copy of an element.
I've come unstuck on a recent deployment modelling scenario - many of our servers are the same!

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: jrico on March 22, 2004, 06:35:43 am

Add my vote for this suggestion

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: Sean Kearon on March 23, 2004, 03:17:29 am

My vote too for Thomas' suggestion and a REALLY BIG VOTE for Sargasso's!!!!!!!

Why not just have 'normal' cut and paste (like Rose has, if I can remember back that far!)

Sean

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: ufechner on May 26, 2004, 10:53:03 am

Yes, this feature would really help a lot.

Uwe Fechner

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: AdamHearn on May 27, 2004, 04:00:37 am

Initial request and sargasso's update would be a great usability improvement.

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: ufechner on November 26, 2004, 08:23:06 am

It's a pity, but this feature is still missing in EA 4.5.

I hope that it will be implemented soon.

Regards:

ufechner

Title: Re: Suggestion: "Save As New" button
Post by: mchiuminatto on November 26, 2004, 01:14:47 pm

Don't even think that I had the overwriting problem (ironic), but, please!!, add my vote