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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: marcelloh on January 18, 2010, 11:25:46 pm

Title: re-order selected objects
Post by: marcelloh on January 18, 2010, 11:25:46 pm

If I select multiple objects in the project browser, I can drag & drop them somewhere else. But I can't press the "move up" or "move down" arrows, to manually reorder them.

I know this it perhaps somehow confusing, if the objects are not next to each other.

Perhaps only enable it, when the objects are next to each other ::).

Title: Re: re-order selected objects
Post by: Geert Bellekens on January 19, 2010, 01:58:34 am

Vote!

Geert

Title: Re: re-order selected objects
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on January 19, 2010, 10:15:27 am

I'm afraid, I would much rather Sparx spent it's patently limited resources to fix some REALLY fundamental issues.

I don't disagree with the suggestion, but I see its applicability as rather limited.

I feel there are much more important problems with EA than this.

It could be remedied as part of a more general browser refactor.

My AU$0.05
Paolo

Title: Re: re-order selected objects
Post by: marcelloh on January 19, 2010, 08:24:46 pm

Useability is actually a fundamental issue ;-)
It brings user acceptance,
that would bring more users,
that will bring more money

Title: Re: re-order selected objects
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on January 19, 2010, 10:18:36 pm

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Usability is actually a fundamental issue ;-)
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NOT evidently for EA.   (Although  there have been some small improvements lately).

Besides, how usable can you make a fundamentally broken aspect?

You can make a thing which works, more or less usable.  You can't make something broken into something that works with usability.

Paolo

Title: Re: re-order selected objects
Post by: marcelloh on January 19, 2010, 11:35:17 pm

I agree  :)

You can fix things, by glueing stuff together, or by rethinking why it
was broken in the first place and then think about how to fix it,
so the most users have benefit
(& comfort ;-))

Title: Re: re-order selected objects
Post by: skiwi on May 24, 2013, 08:45:34 am

Bump

Title: Re: re-order selected objects
Post by: kristina on April 10, 2014, 12:59:17 am

I vote for any improvement of the way you can move/order objects in the project browser.
See also (I have no idea how to insert a link, so I improvise):

[Simple way to move elements in project browser][/http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1396941876]