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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: R Glenn Walker on February 26, 2025, 08:34:10 am

Title: Save Package as MDG Technology .... Question as to how to create a custom id
Post by: R Glenn Walker on February 26, 2025, 08:34:10 am

I am trying out building my own MDG Technology in EA 17 and I love the Save Package as MDG Technology, in concept. I started with one of the TEA accelerators and did a few tweaks. I can load it fine using the "Import Package as MDG Technology" option from the Publish Technology action on Specialize ribbon. It works fine. Now I exported the technology using the "Save Package as MDG Technology" option and got an XML file.

When I go to import the technology, I get a message saying that this version of EA only supports an ID of 12 characters or less. When I look at the technology file, it uses the package name as the ID and the name for the technology. My question would be is there a way for me to provide a shorter ID as meta data that will be used when saving the package as a technology file? I checked the documentation, but this seems not to be covered at all. Lots of info on the manual way of exporting profiles and creating an MDG.

I know I can cheat and shorten the package name but would be nice to keep the descriptive name for the technology and have a shorter id value.

Any solutions would be appreciated.

Title: Re: Save Package as MDG Technology .... Question as to how to create a custom id
Post by: R Glenn Walker on February 26, 2025, 08:42:08 am

I cheated and edited the XML file and it loaded fine. I just shortened the ID to make it acceptable. But, would be nice not to have to make that change manually each time.