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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: Colin Richardson on May 13, 2010, 03:28:42 pm

Title: How to change feature visibility programatically?
Post by: Colin Richardson on May 13, 2010, 03:28:42 pm

Hi All,

I'm looking to hide certain attributes via an add-in.

Normally I try the automation interface, then profile the database to work out how to do it directly via SQL, but this time, no luck.

Any ideas?

Title: Re: How to change feature visibility programatical
Post by: Geert Bellekens on May 14, 2010, 12:46:00 am

create a new project with one class and two attributes.
Hide one attribute.
Then open the database and open each table that seems relevant to figure it out.

Geert

PS. sometimes in the database they use the first part of the ea_guid in style-like columns to indicate a certain feature.

Title: Re: How to change feature visibility programatical
Post by: Colin Richardson on May 14, 2010, 12:56:25 pm

Great ideas - still no luck though.  Even tried building dynamic SQL to look for matching IDs, GUIDs, parts of GUIDS.

Any other ideas?

Title: Re: How to change feature visibility programatical
Post by: KP on May 14, 2010, 01:42:46 pm

The fields that change are t_diagramobjects.ObjectStyle and t_diagram.StyleEx (look for a property named SPL), but I can't help you any further because I have no idea what it all means...

Title: Re: How to change feature visibility programatical
Post by: Colin Richardson on May 14, 2010, 01:58:10 pm

Legend!

Yes, SPL is the key - it's a list of the most 3 significant bytes of the GUID (6 characters) for each attribute.

Don't know how I missed the change  :P

Thanks again - thought I was going nuts :-)

TGIF

Title: Re: How to change feature visibility programatical
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on May 14, 2010, 05:38:49 pm

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Thanks again - thought I was going nuts :-)

Keep working with EA and you will...

After 6 years, I'm sure there's nothing wrong with me...  wrong with me...  wrong with me...

But since you're interested in rendering in EA, check out: Consistent Diagram Item rendering proposal (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1272886538) and lend your support...

Paolo