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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: bockfu on June 22, 2016, 02:04:13 pm

Title: shared search definitions (2016)
Post by: bockfu on June 22, 2016, 02:04:13 pm

bumping a question from 2010 to see if anything has changed.

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I have made a search definition, and I want to share it amongst my collegues. What is the way to do this?

Original post (http://Original post http://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,29221.msg216524.html)

The option shared from the original post included:

• Manually via import/export
• Define in MDG Technology

Hoping these is a better way when using a DBMS.

Title: Re: shared search definitions (2016)
Post by: Helmut Ortmann on June 22, 2016, 02:32:32 pm

Hi,

you may have a look on the free and open source EA Addin hoTools.

You find it in the EA Community http://community.sparxsystems.com/community-resources/977-hotools-sql-with-tabbed-editing-macros-templates (http://community.sparxsystems.com/community-resources/977-hotools-sql-with-tabbed-editing-macros-templates) and on GitHub.

The main features related to SQL are:

• SQL in file system
• A lot of Macros to access EA elements
• A lot of Templates to make an easy start
• Results in EA Model Search
• Tabbed Editing

Helmut

Title: Re: shared search definitions (2016)
Post by: Geert Bellekens on June 22, 2016, 02:36:40 pm

You can now import MDG's into a EA Model, which for me is now the way to share SQL Searches.

We've even made some MDG's containing only a searches because they get their own category on the model search.
And createing MDG's is now a simple point and click wizard (as opposed to manually editing xml files)

Geert

Title: Re: shared search definitions (2016)
Post by: bockfu on June 22, 2016, 03:24:46 pm

Thank you both for the response. 

I'll look at the MDG based solution. 

Thank you
Steven