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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Uffe on May 24, 2013, 04:19:45 pm

Title: Traceability: hide backwards link
Post by: Uffe on May 24, 2013, 04:19:45 pm

Hi all,

When you're traversing a model structure using the Traceability window, you get something like this:

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A
    links to
        B
            links from
                AYou can't expand the inner "A" node, since that would lead to a loop in the tree.

I'd like an option to hide backwards links, so that the inner "A" node would not be shown. If that would turn the "links from" node into a leaf, that node should be hidden too.

Sound good?

Cheers,


/Uffe

Title: Re: Traceability: hide backwards link
Post by: Graham_Moir on July 03, 2013, 09:29:21 pm

Makes sense to me, provided it is indeed an "option"

Title: Re: Traceability: hide backwards link
Post by: Geert Bellekens on July 04, 2013, 03:41:52 pm

I don't see why you shouldn't be able to expand A.
What's wrong with a loop in a tree?
I do that all the time in my EA Navigator tree.

Geert

Title: Re: Traceability: hide backwards link
Post by: qwerty on July 04, 2013, 10:32:51 pm

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I don't see why you shouldn't be able to expand A.
What's wrong with a loop in a tree?
I do that all the time in my EA Navigator tree.

Geert

A tree has no loops. If so, it's a graph.

q.

Title: Re: Traceability: hide backwards link
Post by: g.makulik on July 05, 2013, 03:52:43 am

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A tree has no loops. If so, it's a graph.

A tree-view control loading sub-items on demand can handle graphs with loops correctly and consistently though.

Just my 0.02 EUR
Günther

Title: Re: Traceability: hide backwards link
Post by: Geert Bellekens on July 05, 2013, 03:22:50 pm

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I don't see why you shouldn't be able to expand A.
What's wrong with a loop in a tree?
I do that all the time in my EA Navigator tree.

Geert

A tree has no loops. If so, it's a graph.

q.

True, but it's still displayed using the TreeView control.
(and indeed using some kind of lazy loading principle. Otherwise loading the tree would never stop)

Geert