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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: skiwi on August 20, 2015, 02:19:40 pm

Title: The joy of connectors, and where they are used
Post by: skiwi on August 20, 2015, 02:19:40 pm

For an entity you can "Find in all diagrams", or "Element | Relationships".

What is the equivalent for a connector, I'd love the find a "Find (connector) in all diagrams)" or "Connector | Entities" equivalent?


All I know of is the unsatisfactory (because I can't click through) "visibility | Hide Connector in other diagrams"

Title: Re: The joy of connectors, and where they are used
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on August 20, 2015, 04:23:14 pm

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For an entity you can "Find in all diagrams", or "Element | Relationships".

What is the equivalent for a connector, I'd love the find a "Find (connector) in all diagrams)" or "Connector | Entities" equivalent?


All I know of is the unsatisfactory (because I can't click through) "visibility | Hide Connector in other diagrams"

Don't forget you'll need visible/invisible indicated...  

Effectively, though, if you could select multiple vertices - the ends of the arc and ask what diagrams are BOTH these located it, you'd get the list.

[edit]As an extension, I think being able to select n vertices on a diagram or the browser and being able to ask: "What other diagrams are ALL these vertices on the same diagram?" would be a cool piece of functionality![/edit]

Paolo

Title: Re: The joy of connectors, and where they are used
Post by: skiwi on August 20, 2015, 05:46:36 pm

Actually in this case the specific use case is to locate duplicate connectors between entities (of same or different types).

Title: Re: The joy of connectors, and where they are used
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on August 20, 2015, 07:04:36 pm

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Actually in this case the specific use case is to locate duplicate connectors between entities (of same or different types).

I've got some MS Access scripts to automagically do that - that's why I know about the visible/invisible...  :-[

In the past, I never had to worry about that - because the diagrams were my own and my automation created the duplicates.  So I could just keep one and "blow the others away" with my scripts. 

Now we are merging projects into one corporate repository so I need to extend the existing functionality to fix up the diagrams correctly.

Not rocket science, but not trivial...  (and no bandwidth) :(

Paolo

Title: Re: The joy of connectors, and where they are used
Post by: Geert Bellekens on August 21, 2015, 05:44:56 pm

Somewhere on my EA Navigator backlog I have an feature that will do a "find in all diagrams" for a selection of multiple elements.

Although that isn't exactly the same as a "find in all diagrams" for a connector, I feel that I need that more.

Very often I need to quickly get an idea how a certain element is modelled in relation to some other elements, but if I do "find in all diagrams" I get a massive list of ALL diagrams this one element is used on, without the possibility to filter that down to all diagrams that my two (or more) elements are used on.

So what I'll usually do is create a new diagram and drag the elements I need on it, thereby making the problem worse because next time there will be yet another diagram in the list.

But yes, bandwidth seems be be an issue here too. So much ideas, so little time :-[

Geert

Title: Re: The joy of connectors, and where they are used
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on August 21, 2015, 06:15:34 pm

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But yes, bandwidth seems be be an issue here too. So much ideas, so little time :-[
Geert

You said it!

Have a good weekend and don't have too many new ideas!

Paolo

Title: Re: The joy of connectors, and where they are used
Post by: Geert Bellekens on August 21, 2015, 06:23:19 pm

Thanks!

We are only at the beginning of the last workday yet in this part of the world, but I'm already looking forward to the weekend -> TFIG ;)

Geert