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Suggestions and Requests / Re: note editor

« on: August 05, 2008, 04:15:33 pm »

I don't know what you mean with "the issue of rendering"?

I read about MsWord-automation, and it is possible to do some copy&paste stuff automatically, so back and forth from EA to MsWord.

Another 'funny' thing is, that with a linked document, you can handle more special things. Just by writing it in a decent texteditor and copy&paste it into this linked document editor.

Perhaps, a special button somewhere near a note editor, would open the big editor.

Let's say EA could handle html some more. That it would be simple to include a browser with an editor like 'tinymce' and voila.


BTW: This is just about sharing opinions and stuff
And hopefully give the people from Sparks enough ideas, so that they are not unemployed next month 

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: note editor

« on: August 04, 2008, 06:12:09 pm »

I would say that a call to and external editor is the best option.
Most of them support a lot of wish-list options, so with this single solution, many wishes are fullfilled.

Since other people use the documentation made by EA, the docs must be of a certain proffesional quality.
(Take for instance some simple wish as a decent spell-checker or grammar/style checking: Hard to program, but perhaps easy to borrow)

Another big advantage is that can work in your native language, and for instance: since mine is Dutch, starting a spell check from within EA is a disaster, since none of the words are recognized. And how about the sharing of the user dictionary? In an external editor, the spell check is often native language oriented and full with words to start with.

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Suggestions and Requests / note editor

« on: August 02, 2008, 12:25:54 am »

You can enter a note in the properties of an object, but sometimes you want the note to have more functionalities like:

• Nested numbers
• a Table
• Horizontal rule
• Indenting
• Spellchecking

Even this forum editor has more functionalities  ;)

Would this be possible in the near future?
(Or perhaps an integration with an external editor)

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: re-order selected objects

« on: January 19, 2010, 11:35:17 pm »

I agree  

You can fix things, by glueing stuff together, or by rethinking why it
was broken in the first place and then think about how to fix it,
so the most users have benefit
(& comfort ;-))

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: re-order selected objects

« on: January 19, 2010, 08:24:46 pm »

Useability is actually a fundamental issue ;-)
It brings user acceptance,
that would bring more users,
that will bring more money

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Suggestions and Requests / re-order selected objects

« on: January 18, 2010, 11:25:46 pm »

If I select multiple objects in the project browser, I can drag & drop them somewhere else. But I can't press the "move up" or "move down" arrows, to manually reorder them.

I know this it perhaps somehow confusing, if the objects are not next to each other.

Perhaps only enable it, when the objects are next to each other .

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Suggestions and Requests / spell check

« on: March 10, 2010, 09:13:37 pm »

It would be nice, if the spell-check was shareable across project-members. Or some instruction in how to merge them into a final version....

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: search via sql

« on: January 14, 2011, 08:47:48 pm »

Hello Geert... This one is also a beauty, but gives me
the requirement with the packagename.

I need something like this:
t_propertytypes.property  t_object.name
The first is the standard tagged value
the second is the requirement that is missing that tagged value

So I have in this overview all the Req's that are not complete :-)

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: search via sql

« on: January 14, 2011, 07:31:44 pm »

I tried the #WC# and it works. (Must have been a typo).

I've just read your blog Geert. These are some nice initiatives.
If someone has other nice sql searches, then please publish :-)
So people with limitid sql knowledge could benefit.

Speaking of which:
t_propertytypes has all my default tagged values.
How can I find out, if there are requirements that are missing those.
(So i would like a view, where he would mention a tagged value, and the requirment that hasn't got that tagged value)

Has anyone done this?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: search via sql

« on: January 13, 2011, 10:35:35 pm »

Code: [Select]

select o.ea_guid as CLASSGUID, o.Object_Type as ClassType, o.Name as Name,tv.Property as Key,tv.Value as [Value]
from (t_object  o
inner join t_objectproperties  tv on tv.Object_ID = o.Object_ID)
where o.Object_Type='Requirement'
Just a simple one... That give a good result in MsAccess, but a strange result in EA. (I see all kinds of notes, and only one requirement.)

I just found out, that this was because I pressed RUN (instead of another option to run the sql statement).

So this is one that works:

Code: [Select]

inner join t_objectproperties  tv on tv.Object_ID = o.Object_ID)
where o.Object_Type = 'Requirement'
and tv.Value like '*legal*'
(If I change the *-sign into the suggested #WC# then it doesn't work.)

So after testing it, I changed the hard coded value "legal" into <Search Term>. Saved the query and it works. Hopefully I saved some people some time.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: search via sql

« on: January 13, 2011, 10:16:07 pm »

So i did try Geert's option (Thanks/Bedankt!).
I see however no requirements, only other stuff.
The result-view (inside the model-search window) doesn't show me
the coloms for the query. Am I doing wrong?
Can a EA expert give some working examples on this matter?

The trick is, that I want  to find certain requirements with the same tagged value, So i have a kind of #d model of all my requirements, and I just can look at them the way I want to.
Basically , I just make a kind of vertical slice through all of them, and focussing on a certain keyword. Let's say "Legal". So I could easily find all requirements that have to do with "legal".

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: search via sql

« on: January 12, 2011, 06:25:36 am »

Thanx for your answer,
I found that out allready, but i can't figure out how to map the tagged value of a requirement to the requirement  itself.

Guessing is not good... what if i guess wrong and I display some unpredictible data and assume I did good.
No... I must be 100% sure.
The manual is very unclear on this matter as well...

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Suggestions and Requests / search via sql

« on: January 12, 2011, 03:11:16 am »

I like to see more examples on how to use this.

I tried some things, but I can't just keep on trying.
Is there a database structure somewhere that would help me?

I would like to search on objects of a specific type, with some specific tagged values. I did look in this forum, but didn't find much help.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: share search definitions

« on: February 17, 2010, 08:08:30 pm »

So, yet another thing to make more useable. I work in projects with a centralized database. I don't get this. Why is this a local user setting on a file system? Sounds like a quirky solution to me.

To make it more usable, I must be able to have personal searches, and also project-wide user defined searches.
(And of course well hidden inside the database, and not in any local place.)

This makes me wonder if really everything else is stored inside the database, or are there more suprises like this? I don't like this kind of suprises  

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Suggestions and Requests / share search definitions

« on: February 17, 2010, 07:13:47 pm »

I have made a search definition, and I want to share it amongst my collegues. What is the way to do this?

(I find this a strange question, because that we all work in the same EA-file, so I thought, this was also shared information.)