Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Guillaume on May 06, 2020, 12:40:29 am
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Hi,
I have a connector between 2 elements that has a RefGuidList tagged value. This tag can have several elements e.g. 20 or more referenced so the properties view is not suitable to review the list.
I was hoping to have the connector supported in the traceability to get a tree structure list of associated elements via the tagged value, or alternatively have a Connector Browser in the latest EA15.1 Browser.
Is there any option out there such as EA Navigator? (I need to reinstall it)
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The built-in traceability window doesn't show connectors as something that can have other links.
Even if it did, or if you use something else to view them, you're going to run into two of the reasons why I repeatedly recommend using multiple tags instead of RefGUID.
- A RefGUIDList can only hold 6 values. (Database field with 255 characters, guids with 38 separated by commas)
- Two way lookup is impractical. If you're looking for a tag that references an element you need to look through the whole field or at least the 6 possible positions. It may be possible to write your own indexes and queries using them to do it in a fast way. All that would be doing is simulating multiple RefGUID tags.
I'll say it again. I strongly recommend using multiple RefGUID tagged values. If there are usability issues with that approach I would be happy to push for improvements in that area.
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Hi Eve,
Thank you that's very useful. I didn't know that the RefGuidList had such limitation so I will try to use multiple RefGuid tagged values as suggested.