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General Board / Re: Reporting Audit

« on: May 14, 2014, 06:25:19 pm »

Baselines don't really help for use case scenarios because there is too much metadata in there, here is an example:

BASELINE BEFORE CHANGE:

      <step name="Example use case step 1" guid="{6E8DD683-0D2C-40fc-B048-BA18D6820208}" level="1" uses="" useslist="" result="" state="" trigger="1" link=""/>
      <step name="Example use case step 2" guid="{EE69FE86-CCDF-460b-8639-4B09C2579EE5}" level="2" uses="" useslist="" result="" state="" trigger="0" link=""/>
      <step name="Example use case step 3" guid="{1341AA7C-4E24-4c50-BB13-C1E2B6E0D4BA}" level="3" uses="" useslist="" result="" state="" trigger="1" link=""/>

BASELINE AFTER CHANGE:

      <step name="Example use case step 1" guid="{6E8DD683-0D2C-40fc-B048-BA18D6820208}" level="1" uses="" useslist="" result="" state="" trigger="1" link=""/>
      <step name="Example use case step 2 CHANGED" guid="{EE69FE86-CCDF-460b-8639-4B09C2579EE5}" level="2" uses="" useslist="" result="" state="" trigger="0" link=""/>
      <step name="Example use case step 3" guid="{1341AA7C-4E24-4c50-BB13-C1E2B6E0D4BA}" level="3" uses="" useslist="" result="" state="" trigger="1" link=""/>

If there was a way of supressing the metadata then this would by useable

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General Board / Re: Reporting Audit

« on: May 13, 2014, 09:06:13 pm »

Thanks, I hadn't thought about it from a motivational perspective

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General Board / Reporting Audit

« on: May 13, 2014, 06:13:37 pm »

A common question i get from the developers and testers is "whats changed" when i give them an updated use case specification. Before EA they were used to receiving word docs with track changes. I've tried a few different methods but none completely satisfactory. Any suggestions?

Methods tried:

1. Switch Audit on and view the audit logs. The problem with this is there is so much of it and the Structured Specification for the Use Case is displayed as xml content.

2. Use the RTF Generator to output the audit log. The problem with this is it doesn't report the structured scenarios and if multiple changes to the same element have been made there is no clear before and after picture.

3. Create a basic rtf document before and after the changes with no tables and use the windows compare feature. This is the closest I've got to achieving my needs.

4. Use the Advanced reporting features of EA with sql  to create a custom field (I haven't got this working yet - if anyone has please send me the sql / script)

Thanks...Andy

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General Board / Serena Dimension VC

« on: April 16, 2013, 05:56:46 pm »

Has anyone successfully used Serena Dimension VC with EA for distributed teams using local models?

I have a centralised team working with Serena Dimensions but cannot checkout to a different local .eap

Andy

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General Board / Re: Class Model import into Systems Architect

« on: November 22, 2011, 08:24:48 pm »

SA is version 11.4.0.3

EA is version 9.1.910

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General Board / Class Model import into Systems Architect

« on: November 21, 2011, 07:56:44 pm »

The architecture team I am working with already use IBM Systems Architect. I'm proposing the use of EA for the Business Analysts but I cannot get the XMI import to work either way between SA and EA.

I'm exporting one package from EA containing 5 classes (as a test) and attempting to import this into SA.

When attempting to import into SA I get the message:

Only one top level element is allowed in an XML Document.

Has anyone had this working (using the latest versions of SA and EA)

Thanks..Andy

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Use case document generation

« on: April 16, 2013, 08:44:24 pm »

I understand,

no, this is not possible. I have encountered this in the past. I now produce use case reports as shown in your first example and include the activity diagram.

Not ideal I know but my stakeholders are happy with it

Andy

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Use case document generation

« on: April 16, 2013, 06:34:59 pm »

Hi Marianne,

Click the RTF section:

Element > Scenario > Structured Scenario > Exception

right mouse,

insert field

Join

....Andy

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Maintenance feature person drop down lists emp

« on: August 21, 2012, 11:17:19 pm »

Is it possible to change the values in the drop down list for the status on a change? it seems to be a different list to the Settings > Project Types > General Types > Status? Also the list on the RTF Filter uses the General Types rather than those available on the change drop down?

Andy

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Maintenance feature person drop down lists emp

« on: August 21, 2012, 05:56:22 pm »

Thanks, works fine now  

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Bugs and Issues / Maintenance feature person drop down lists empty

« on: August 21, 2012, 12:41:48 am »

Hi,

We are considering the use of the Maintenance feature to capture changes to use cases etc. Seems to work well except the Raised by , Completed by fields are empty and will not accept a value. I've tried this on projects with and without security.

Is anyone else using this feature? Any success with populating these fields?

Thanks...Andy

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Working with struc. UC scenarios

« on: August 01, 2012, 11:58:04 pm »

Hi,  we've been using the Structured Scenarios for about 18 months to detail our use cases. This is working very well for us. We use the "uses" column to trace to Business Rules and Glossary definitions.  This has the advantage of not cluttering the use case with excessive detail, gives us re-use and can be pulled out with the Use Case on the RTF generated documentation.

Generally there is no need to use the "Description" tab except for deleting unwanted alternatives so defaulting to the Scenarios tab works for us.  

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Extending BMPN activity metaclass

« on: May 02, 2013, 07:44:26 pm »

Hi,

I have extended UML Metaclasses to create profiles containing bespoke Tag Values but I am unable to do this for BPMN activities, I cannot see the BPMN activity in the Metaclass list.

Has anybody been able to extend the BPMN activity to add tagged values with profiles?

Thanks...Andy