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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: mjohn on May 14, 2008, 01:15:09 pm

Title: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: mjohn on May 14, 2008, 01:15:09 pm

 :-[I can't divide  the lane into multiple lanes., and can't divide pool into multiple lanes.
can't set lane and pool'direction to vertical default.
The size and position can't auto fit to it's parent and so on....
Too bad for draw BPMN.

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: Eve on May 14, 2008, 01:47:37 pm

Is this thread (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1184119222) talking about what you want?

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: mjohn on May 14, 2008, 03:49:03 pm

 :-[But it did't give a good solution for the problem.

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: Eve on May 15, 2008, 08:18:48 am

Using a combination of modifying the z-order and making lanes non-selectable works fine for me.

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: mjohn on May 15, 2008, 05:01:20 pm

 :-[
And I can't select multiple elements in pool or in lane only use mouse . And I can't  combine multiple elements as word.
And I can't select multiple arrow elements.

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: «Midnight» on May 15, 2008, 07:43:57 pm

Control-click does not work for you?

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: Jan ´Bary´ Glas on May 15, 2008, 10:52:20 pm

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making lanes non-selectable

If you have dome this, you can use your mouse as you want to.

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: «Midnight» on May 16, 2008, 03:29:06 am

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Using a combination of modifying the z-order and making lanes non-selectable works fine for me.

Using the EA help Search tab, look up "Selectable" (without quotes). The result that cites the Element Context Menu - Multiple Selection is the page you want. Look near the bottom for the explanation of what you need to do.

If any Sparxians are reading this - perhaps Simon or Roy - please update the Help Index tab to point to this page. None of the appropriate entries for Element Context Menu do so, and there are no entries for selectable or non-selectable (regardless of the punctuation or absence thereof). The only index reference to this page is under Context Menu | Element, Multiple Selection. This seems somewhat counterintuitive. [That said, this is a relatively new feature and may have slipped through the cracks when it was added.]

David

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: RoyC on May 19, 2008, 12:00:24 pm

There are now Multiple references to selectable and non-selectable, which options are explained in the Appearance submenu topic. References also take you to the multiple selection menu. Changes apparent with the next release of EA.

Title: Re: EA is too bad for draw BPMN's lane and pool.
Post by: «Midnight» on May 20, 2008, 03:21:58 am

Thanks Roy,

That should go a long way to easing confusion.

David