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Suggestions and Requests / More flexible auto routing

« on: May 11, 2006, 05:07:28 pm »

One thing I've noticed about auto-routing lines in EA is that the program is very picky about where it lets you place the lines on the classes.

For example, if I have to classes next to each other, there's no way to drag an association so that it links the bottom of one class to the side of another class (assuming one class is much shorter than the other).

It would also be nice to be able to move lines side-to-side without affecting where the line intersected the target class. For example, if I have a line that goes down from the bottom of a class and then left into the side of another class, moving the line to the right also moves it down. Id' like those behaviors separated.

Of course, I could do a custom line, but auto-routing makes maintaining lines when rearranging a diagram much easier. Frankly, this is one part of MagicDraw that I found much more flexible.

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Suggestions and Requests / Sync database model with DB

« on: July 12, 2005, 11:49:03 am »

Right now, EA can sync its database diagram with the state of the database, but I would love to be able to go in the other direction.

Hopefully, if I then change a column name (or add a constaint), EA will issue the appropriate ALTER commands to the database to put it in the proper state. Has this been discussed at all?

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General Board / Re: Associations for association class

« on: April 06, 2005, 08:16:16 am »

Ok, I see where I didn't come across correctly.

I understand that's how it should look (dotted line and all that) - I'm used to that. When I do a codegen on the class, though, my understanding is the code should have relationships inside that association class. For that matter, if I look at the Links page of the assoc class, my understanding is it should list the two classes on either side of the relationship.

That doesn't happen. Should EA do this automatically, or should I do it manually, or is it correct with the class not actually having those relationships?

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General Board / Re: Associations for association class

« on: April 06, 2005, 12:06:32 am »

Thanks for the replies, I think I was looking at the wrong spec.

Still, I'm not sure that answers my question. I know an assoc class describes the attributes of an association, but isn't it written as a many association from each class to the assoc class, and a one association from the assoc class to each of the joining classes?

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General Board / Re: Associations for association class

« on: April 05, 2005, 10:08:13 pm »

See UML 2.0 superstructure page 119.

I'm afraid that doesn't tell me anything. You're referring to the section labelled Association Rules?

I don't suppose you could translate?

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General Board / Associations for association class

« on: April 05, 2005, 06:18:41 pm »

I'm not sure if this is my problem or EA's. If I add an association class to a UML diagram, I get the link between the two classes, and the assoc class hanging off of the relationship.

I expect the two main classes to point to the assoc class, and the assoc class to point to the other two classes. Instead, the assoc class has no relationships, and the two main classes still point to each other. Code gen gives the same result.

I don't think this is correct behavior. Can anyone clarify? This is using 4.51.749

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Uml Process / Association class links

« on: April 07, 2005, 11:44:14 am »

I posted this message over in the general area, but it might make more sense here.

When I create an association class, I notice that EA keeps the Links between the two original classes, and does not actually assign links to the association class.

Is there a way to have EA do this, or should I just leave it, since the diagram still expresses my intent?