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Enterprise Architect => Bugs and Issues => Topic started by: Knaldgas on May 22, 2019, 05:01:17 pm
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For me drawing BPMN diagrams in EA is a pain!
When using EA for BPMN I use a lot of time rearranging arrows and labels over and over and over again. Just as you think everything is nice you save, and when you reopen the diagram, arrows and labels have moved around.
When I work with a customer I often use Camunda-modeler in order to avoid becoming side-tracked by these nuisances, and then I import the diagrams into EA, with whatever work that causes...
Am I the only one experiencing these issues?
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Things are supposed to move around on their own.
I haven't noticed that myself, but if you do, please document it and send in a bug report to Sparx.
Geert
PS. Are you sure the imports you are doing import the model correctly? There much more to a BPMN model than only the diagram. How you do deal with links to reused things (calls to other processes, Global tasks, links to PartnerRoles or PartnerEntities, etc...?
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Things are supposed to move around on their own.
I presume you mean "are not supposed"
By moving around, I do not mean semantically, "just" graphically - Like how they get routed from source to destination. I will try record a few sessions and post a report.
Well, camunda-modeler doesn't seem to be repository-based, and not supporting Global tasks the way I want it, to me it is just a quite nice BPMN drawing tool. Apart from having to rename the extension from .bpmn to .xmi in order for EA to be able to read them, the import is pretty straight forward. I could wish for EA to be as simple to use for Work shops and the like...
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Things are supposed to move around on their own.
I presume you mean "are not supposed"
By moving around, I do not mean semantically, "just" graphically - Like how they get routed from source to destination. I will try record a few sessions and post a report.
Well, camunda-modeler doesn't seem to be repository-based, and not supporting Global tasks the way I want it, to me it is just a quite nice BPMN drawing tool. Apart from having to rename the extension from .bpmn to .xmi in order for EA to be able to read them, the import is pretty straight forward. I could wish for EA to be as simple to use for Work shops and the like...
I did ;D
Geert