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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: PeterHeintz on June 17, 2016, 03:01:26 am

Title: Drag and drop a file to a diagram is a cool feature with poor implementation.
Post by: PeterHeintz on June 17, 2016, 03:01:26 am

By dragging e.g. a word file to a diagram EA creates an artifact element to store the file in the data base. This is a real cool feature for files you cannot really link to.
However I was wondering why I cannot find some information about that file somewhere in the created artefact element.
Looking on that, I realized to get access to the file the name of the element is essential.
In other words when you drop the file the created element gets the name of the file as element name. That is fine but when you rename the element you cannot access the stored file any more. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
This behavior is just rubbish (I call it a bug).

Title: Re: Drag and drop a file to a diagram is a cool feature with poor implementation.
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on June 17, 2016, 08:21:15 am

Then you'd better report it...  ;)

Paolo

Title: Re: Drag and drop a file to a diagram is a cool feature with poor implementation.
Post by: PeterHeintz on June 17, 2016, 04:49:20 pm

I still have the hope that someone tells me something about a kind of workaround. If not I will report if.