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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: Viking on March 17, 2025, 10:54:51 pm

Title: Time Aware Modeling - just copying?
Post by: Viking on March 17, 2025, 10:54:51 pm
Hi,

I tried Time Aware Modeling, but I am not sure if I understood TAM completely.

I reference the tutorial in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47uZYgSgDE. If I follow the tutorial and clone the package and the element, I get:
The cloned element is in fact just a new element with a new GUID. But there is nothing what a cannot achieve without “cloning” or following the wizard. I am afraid that I missed something. What is it?

Many thanks in advance, V.
Title: Re: Time Aware Modeling - just copying?
Post by: Takeshi K on March 18, 2025, 10:02:05 am
I do not know from when it was changed, but now EA does not create a Trace relationships between the TAM objects.

Maybe it is impossible to create these TAM virtual relationships without using the TAM related features.
Title: Re: Time Aware Modeling - just copying?
Post by: Viking on March 18, 2025, 07:24:36 pm
I do not know from when it was changed, but now EA does not create a Trace relationships between the TAM objects.
Maybe it is impossible to create these TAM virtual relationships without using the TAM related features.

Traceability shows "depends on / needed by" and now "replaces / replaced by". "Insert Related Element" showed "Trace" and now "Abstraction". In a own created Traceability-Diagram the relationship is shown as "«trace»". Hopefully I remember this correctly.

Why is this "trace" or "replaced by" a "Virtual Connection"? What is the behavior of a virtual connection? My understanding is, that EA does not support virtual connections.
Title: Re: Time Aware Modeling - just copying?
Post by: Modesto Vega on March 21, 2025, 02:03:09 am
The cloned element is in fact just a new element with a new GUID. But there is nothing what a cannot achieve without “cloning” or following the wizard. I am afraid that I missed something. What is it?
In V16.1 all TMA clone elements are a new elements with a new GUID. But when you clone a diagram no new elements are created, new elements are created only when they are cloned. There is no change here.

Traceability shows "depends on / needed by" and now "replaces / replaced by". "Insert Related Element" showed "Trace" and now "Abstraction". In a own created Traceability-Diagram the relationship is shown as "«trace»". Hopefully I remember this correctly.

Why is this "trace" or "replaced by" a "Virtual Connection"? What is the behavior of a virtual connection? My understanding is, that EA does not support virtual connections.
"replaces / is replaced by" is the visible wording V16.1.

The part that is more interesting is the replacement of a "trace" by a "Virtual Connection". This is what I was asking about in the other thread.