Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: jprince on February 28, 2012, 12:19:49 am
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It wouldbe a nice new feature to have the ability to change the direction of text in Sparx.
Here is the PowerPoint equivalent of what im trying to do:
(http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Microsoft-Office-PowerPoint-2007Images/Align_Text_Within_Cells_Rows_And_Columns___To_Change_Direction_Click_Text_Dire.PNG)
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Yes that would be very useful. I'd also like to change where a boundary displays it's name.
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Yes that would be very useful. I'd also like to change where a boundary displays it's name.
Agreed (with both).
Paolo
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Oddly, I just noticed some of this is available on DataFlows.
(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/copperkiwi/Sparx/2012-03-0713-34-58_.png) (http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/copperkiwi/Sparx/2012-03-0713-35-50_-1.png)
Lets have it everywhere else.
And for boundaries, swimlanes, and matrix.
See also
8.0 diagram enhancements: labels (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1277094607/62#62)
9.0 whiteboard diagrams (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1307921175/2#2)
not in EA 11
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Lets have it everywhere else.
And for boundaries, swimlanes, and matrix.
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It looks like it came in to support BPMN (Pools and Lanes) have vertical text.
So yes, let's have more: Concistency, konsistency, consistensy! TMUffe - after Paolo
Paolo
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And lets add a feature request for access to the Font dialogue for all labels
(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/copperkiwi/Sparx/2012-04-2011-48-23_Font.png)
not in EA 11
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I can't give the changes you want directly in EA, but eaDocX will give you much greater control of text styles etc when documents are generated.
We also managed to get Vertical text into our Relationship Matrix!
So, have a look at eadocx
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i can't see any improvements in V11
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Having seen all the investigations you made these days it makes me depressed. You must feel either miserable, desperate or angry, I guess. Why does Sparx development allow that?
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Yes, well.
I look at it like this.
This forum, plus bug/feature reports, are the only way we, mere paying users have, of addressing Sparx (I distinguish us from the trainers, etc mentioned elsewhere who are granted to power of knowing what we want better than we do). I live in hope that others will read posts from, dare I say it, we power users, and support the suggestions made, or even submit a supporting feature request.
EA is the tool I've got to work with, I much prefer it to word and visio for my professional practice, but when my outputs, generated from EA (documents) or sourced from EA (diagrams) are up against a word document, or Visio diagram, its clear that presentation counts.
Oh and speaking as a trainer (at least informally internally) most of my posts also reflect questions I have been asked about how to achieve something in a model or diagram (... I can do this in Visio, Powerpoint, Excel, how do I do it in EA ...)
We have had discussions elsewhere about the importance/relevance of diagrams in modelling and UML, but to me diagrams are highly important in communicating the views of the model I need to provide to advocate for a solution, and to guide and direct that solution.
Hence my focus on improving the usability and look and feel of diagrams. Heck, there is a lot of good stuff in diagrams, but a lot of basic stuff that is just plain missing, and would not be rocket science or break existing stuff to implement (I'd like to think).
It has been observed by others that some features are 'sales-ware', added to tick a box. For me org charts and flow charts come to mind. I'd like to use them and have tried, but in practice its had to believe that they even went through technical testing (let alone usability testing), and in use they are more like beta releases (whiteboard and hand drawn also spring to mind). Like most software these need versions two and three before they achieve maturity. I'm waiting.
The main positive I get from this is I know there are good people from Sparx reading these. The depressing aspect is that we have no idea of whether anyone further into the organisation, or at the top, is interested in engaging with customers using this forum, or leveraging it.
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I could reply in length. But simply, you were speaking right out of my heart.
q.
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Yes, it's definitely depressing, but we can live in hope.....
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Yes that would be very useful. I'd also like to change where a boundary displays it's name.
Agreed (with both).
Surely this is possible.
Please everyone put in a feature request.