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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: bITs.EA on April 07, 2016, 08:32:09 pm

Title: Automatically save stereotype in specified package
Post by: bITs.EA on April 07, 2016, 08:32:09 pm

Simple question: is it possible to save certain stereotypes in a specified package?

Eg. I've created a new stereotype "pain point" and I want to store them automatically in the "pain point package". My problem is the pain points can be created on many different locations and some will be used on different locations too. So I want 1 repository (= package) of pain points.

Is this possible in EA?

Title: Re: Automatically save stereotype in specified package
Post by: Geert Bellekens on April 07, 2016, 09:00:11 pm

Not out of the box.

But you could write an add-in, or an EA-Matic (http://bellekens.com/ea-matic/) script to do that.
If you use the EA_OncontextItemModified (http://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.1/automation_and_scripting/ea_onnotifycontextitemmodified.html) you could move the element to the appropriate package if it has this specific stereotype.

Geert

Title: Re: Automatically save stereotype in specified package
Post by: Eve on April 08, 2016, 03:03:47 pm

Warning - I've seen problems by someone automatically moving the package of an element on those broadcasts.

In particular, it breaks things badly when modifying an element from the project browser.

Title: Re: Automatically save stereotype in specified package
Post by: Geert Bellekens on April 08, 2016, 03:42:58 pm

Quote from: Simon M on April 08, 2016, 03:03:47 pm

Warning - I've seen problems by someone automatically moving the package of an element on those broadcasts.

In particular, it breaks things badly when modifying an element from the project browser.

Is that somewhere on the backlog to be fixed?

Geert