Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: wikitect on July 01, 2009, 10:10:24 pm
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Search provides a tabular set of results and yet is not able to export to CSV (from which to build a table) - unlike the Relationship Matrix.
The documentation options are very limited and there's little control over the presentation so it would make a lot of sense to be able to export and re-import the CSV into something with more control over presentation.
This ought to be an option for any tabular view or set of results produced within EA.
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You can create a RTF report with the results of a search.
Well, create a simple RTF Style Template with only [name] and comma, and you obtain your CSV file (you will need to rename the .rtf extension by .csv...)
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Hmm.
The only options from the search results are:
Documentation > RTF report for Each Selected Item
Documentation > RTF Report on Selected Items
In both cases I then get the error that the selection does not contain any element for which RTF documentation can be generated.
Not sure how then to create a report.
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Try Ctrl-A to select all, then in the context menu select: Copy to Clipboard.
Open say Excel and Ctrl-v to get the full format - save to CVS.
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Hmm. I'm using EA on a Mac via Crossover. When I select all the search rows and paste into Notepad I precisely nothing. If this were going to work I'd have hoped to get text and some form of column separator. At the moment therefore I can't see how this might work.
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Even if it works, some "exprt results to CSV" would be nice (and it is not that mush work...)
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Indeed.
As I've just found out (this time using EA in a VMWare Fusion Virtual Machine) ... where the copied search text includes a carriage return the paste into Excel fails as it then places the subsequent paragraph into the wrong column so the tabular report gets jumbled. :'(
Not a viable solution. More a temporary and partial workaround.