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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: Paolo F Cantoni on November 03, 2015, 11:29:18 am

Title: QuickLinker "<none>" new link type
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on November 03, 2015, 11:29:18 am
The ArchiMate QuickLinker specifications includes the value "<none>" for the New Link Type column.  Anyone know what it means?  Are there any other Extrinsic Values that could be useful?

Paolo
Title: Re: QuickLinker "<none>" new link type
Post by: KP on November 04, 2015, 09:26:49 am
It's how you tell the quicklinker not to inherit the default menu when there isn't an overriding menu. (You would normally put TRUE in the "Exclusive to stereotype" column, but if there are no possible connections between stereotypes then you don't have that option.)
Title: Re: QuickLinker "<none>" new link
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on November 04, 2015, 11:06:15 am
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It's how you tell the quicklinker not to inherit the default menu when there isn't an overriding menu. (You would normally put TRUE in the "Exclusive to stereotype" column, but if there are no possible connections between stereotypes then you don't have that option.)
Thanks KP,

Are there any other "specials".  For example, I think it would be good to be able to specify that :
 Class , stereotype: <any>, Class, Stereotype: <Same>, Aggregation, , Aggregates

To imply you can aggregate  stereotype tot he same stereotype.

Paolo
Title: Re: QuickLinker "<none>" new link type
Post by: qwerty on November 04, 2015, 11:31:12 am
Oh please no. I'm already struggling with describing the current capabilities. It would be so much easier if that were programmable conditions in a common language rather than this crude table format.

q.
Title: Re: QuickLinker "<none>" new link
Post by: KP on November 04, 2015, 11:33:03 am
We don't have that specific example, but we have introduced a few new ones with EA 12.1 Beta, e.g. specify the name or classifier of the (unstereotyped) source and/or target element. They use the previously unused "Complexity" field and are documented in the help.
Title: Re: QuickLinker "<none>" new link
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on November 04, 2015, 03:10:41 pm
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We don't have that specific example, but we have introduced a few new ones with EA 12.1 Beta, e.g. specify the name or classifier of the (unstereotyped) source and/or target element. They use the previously unused "Complexity" field and are documented in the help.
Thanks,

I'll check out the help.
Title: Re: QuickLinker "<none>" new link type
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on November 04, 2015, 03:11:51 pm
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Oh please no. I'm already struggling with describing the current capabilities. It would be so much easier if that were programmable conditions in a common language rather than this crude table format.

q.
Indeed, but any improvement is better than no improvement...

Paolo
Title: Re: QuickLinker "<none>" new link
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on November 04, 2015, 04:17:51 pm
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We don't have that specific example, but we have introduced a few new ones with EA 12.1 Beta, e.g. specify the name or classifier of the (unstereotyped) source and/or target element. They use the previously unused "Complexity" field and are documented in the help.
Thanks,

I'll check out the help.
Will the examples be extended to show the use of the new complexity column?  I see what the definition says, but I'm not sure I can visualise the outcomes.

Paolo