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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: vincitygialam on January 13, 2019, 08:39:06 pm

Title: Anyone out there have done automatic RoadMap diagram based on TaggedValue data
Post by: vincitygialam on January 13, 2019, 08:39:06 pm

On RoadMap diagrams, Seams old-fashion to drag element & segment to right time-line, instead of have EA to automaticle draw the diagram based on elements own data, as Gant charts.
Anyone out there have some example scripts that maybe done that??

Title: Re: Anyone out there have done automatic RoadMap diagram based on TaggedValue data
Post by: adepreter on September 23, 2020, 06:48:30 pm

Agree. When will this feature be available?

Title: Re: Anyone out there have done automatic RoadMap diagram based on TaggedValue data
Post by: Sunshine on September 25, 2020, 09:53:15 am

Yes something like that is needed. I spend far too much time having to manually shuffle things around.
I have used kanban feature to sort into columns where the columns represent Financial year for the 5 year views. Similarly used kanban for priority view to help manage priorities but that's not quite the same as a proper roadmap auto layout.
I suppose it might be possible to write something in JavaScript or VBScript to layout elements but don't think there is an API to access the roadmap scale and settings to figure out where to put it. 

Title: Re: Anyone out there have done automatic RoadMap diagram based on TaggedValue data
Post by: Rich Anderson on May 31, 2021, 10:09:32 am

Yes, this would be very good.  I can think of a way you could layout the bars using an approximation algorithm and a few tricks, but it makes my head hurt to think about it.   For instance if you knew that the X coordinate for the start of the roadmap was 0 and you knew the X coordinate for the end of the roadmap was some other number (say 2000), then you could calculate the actualy X start and end coordinates of each bar based on a ratio of the number of days past the start of the roadmap.    That might work!

Title: Re: Anyone out there have done automatic RoadMap diagram based on TaggedValue data
Post by: Sunshine on June 01, 2021, 06:41:06 am

After a recent trial of Prolaborate I was delighted to discover Roadmaps can indeed be created automatically from start and end dates in the form of tagged values on elements.
https://prolaborate.sparxsystems.com/resources/documentation/enterprise-architecture-charts-and-visualizations/enterprise-roadmaps (https://prolaborate.sparxsystems.com/resources/documentation/enterprise-architecture-charts-and-visualizations/enterprise-roadmaps)
I was even more delighted to discover bubble charts for TIME (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate and Eliminate) graphs.
https://prolaborate.sparxsystems.com/resources/documentation/enterprise-architecture-charts-and-visualizations/bubble-chart (https://prolaborate.sparxsystems.com/resources/documentation/enterprise-architecture-charts-and-visualizations/bubble-chart)
Now going through the process of trying to get the boss to pay for it.

Title: Re: Anyone out there have done automatic RoadMap diagram based on TaggedValue data
Post by: steverumsby on June 29, 2022, 02:00:29 am

I know this is a little old now, but I too would love either a way for Sparx to autolayout a roadmap based on element properties or an API to access the roadmap properties so I could do it myself. I've written code to do this in another EA tool, and it is certainly fiddly but eminently doable. But not without access to the roadmap properties of the diagram.

I don't suppose anyone has heard anything about this being implemented anytime soon?

I've just submitted this as a feature request, so we'll see what happens!