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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Using encrypted SSL cert for Sparx Cloud Server

« on: February 28, 2019, 10:32:31 am »

I had successfully set up a self-signed certificate for the Cloud Server Express, but now I've had my organization create an official certificated which is, appropriately, encrypted with a passphrase.  I didn't see in the documentation how to configure this. And, after dropping in the server.pem, when I try to start the service, I get a warning in the log: "Unable to create secure server on port xxx". Just for other other info, I am running this on a Windows server (no IIS either for this or the WebEA component).  I would assume, if it is supported, I would need to pass it to the service start command similar to the way apache works.  Does anyone know whether this is supported and, if so, what the mechanism is? If you know of any helpful documentation or posts, I would appreciate it.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: EA Beta 7.1.825 - Text Sizing

« on: February 25, 2008, 02:59:10 pm »

That definitely helps!  Thanks for the tip.  I never thought to check that before (D'oh!).  However, I still think it would be good to allow a font size changes to part or all of the text

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: EA Beta 7.1.825 - Text Sizing

« on: January 30, 2008, 08:21:01 am »

already submitted

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Suggestions and Requests / EA Beta 7.1.825 - Text Sizing

« on: January 30, 2008, 08:02:36 am »

I submitted the following "officially", but I would be interested in comments.  I've said this before, but maybe just not loud enough:

I often use EA to do use case modeling in a group session with a projector.  The problem I have is that the text in the notes window and also the scenarios is so small that is difficult to do, but I don't want to change the screen resolution.

I would suggest two things:
1)  Have + / - buttons to increase the view size of the text for both those windows without changing the underlying font.
2)  Be able to increase / decrease the real font size as part of the rich formatting.  I think this is less useful as it could create inconsistencies in documentation if misused, but that should be up to user.

What do others think?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Free text fields - 2 suggestions

« on: December 12, 2007, 02:40:39 pm »

Couldn't you just release 7.1 instead?  Any ETA?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Free text fields - 2 suggestions

« on: December 12, 2007, 01:43:49 pm »

I feel like I'm the victim of a sick joke here.  I downloaded the latest version of the documentation and, gee, you are right, it does say that there are rich notes and even has several pretty pictures of the toolbar.  I spent 20 minutes trying to find the toolbar in all the locations mentioned and looked through all the options looking for something like "Enable Rich Text Notes".  Couldn't find anything.  Then I noticed the documentation says Enterprise Architect 7.1 User Guide (thanks for the rich text capability in the forum BTW ;-) ).  Unless someone doesn't want me to have EA 7.1, the latest published version that I am aware of is 7.0, build 818.  Perhaps this is something we'll see released in a couple of weeks?  Awfully cruel to dangle upcoming enhancements by releasing the documentation first!  Of course, if I have just completely missed the boat here, please tell me what I'm doing wrong!

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Free text fields - 2 suggestions

« on: December 11, 2007, 04:05:43 pm »

q2, I'm with you.

Rich text formatting of notes would be a great improvement.  Inserting XML into the notes would make updating of the model a nightmare.

At the very least, and I mean least, Sparx should allow the user to change the font size.  I'd even be happi-er if it was changing the font view size on the screen so my already failing middle-age vision wasn't taxed so hard when running use case sessions.

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Suggestions and Requests / Package Level Security

« on: November 22, 2007, 08:42:02 am »

Greetings,

I'd like to float the idea of Sparx adding package level security to their security model, including the ability to specify "This package and all subpackages" or "This package only".  For enterprise level models, particularly if the Zachman framework pans out to be practical, this could be valuable as I may want to expose different parts of the model(s) to different populations within my organization. I've done a search on past posts and haven't seen much traffic on this idea.  Obviously versioning is one strategy to control who changes the "official" version of the model, but this doesn't affect what they can see and do in EA.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Rich text for use case scenario documenting

« on: August 29, 2007, 10:51:31 am »

RT for notes and scenarios would be an immensely useful feature.  I run use case and robustness analysis sessions and I could save myself significant amounts of time and eye strain if I could adjust the font size and appearance of the editor window.  It would also be useful when generating documentation to preserve formatting within the use case text.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Simulation capability in Business Process Mode

« on: August 29, 2007, 10:38:02 am »

You have my vote for this too.  Granted, I would not expect the level of sophistication I have seen in six-figure tools but you could develop a reasonable engine relatively easily.  I've seen one done for Visio that isn't too bad.

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Suggestions and Requests / BPMN element improvements

« on: June 05, 2007, 11:16:20 am »

I'd like to suggest improving the toolbox and/or context menus for BPMN diagrams.  It's a little tedious to go set tagged values for events and activities to get the proper type.  It would be nice to either have additional items in the toolbox for common things or a context menu for different element (for instance, right click on an intermediate event and receive a Trigger >> Message; Timer; Error; Cancel; etc context menu.  Much nicer and more intuitive than tagged values, particularly for non-technical business process modelers.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: BPMN Simulation & XPDL

« on: July 02, 2007, 09:00:09 am »

I second this suggestion, but would also add support for the BPDM spec.  Not sure where it is at in the approval process, but it was 99% of the way there with OMG earlier this year.

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General Board / Re: Importing BMPN 2.0 Model (in XML format)

« on: June 22, 2013, 02:36:03 am »

I'm aware of an export / publish for BPMN.  However, on neither the Project > Model Import / Export or the Extensions > Import and subsequent dialogs do I see a BPMN Import.    I've tried doing an XMI import with a BPMN package I exported from EA just to see if that would work.  It fails with an 'Unknown XMI Exporter or Version' error, which makes sense since the xml format is a <bpmn.../> and not an XMI

If I am missing the obvious, would you be so kind as to point out the navigation path or process to import BPMN?  Much appreciated.

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General Board / Re: Importing BMPN 2.0 Model (in XML format)

« on: June 20, 2013, 08:10:36 am »

Did you ever find a solution for this?  I have the same basic issue of wanting to do a metadata interchange and I really don't want to have to write my own XMI transforms.

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General Board / Re: EA and BPMN extended notation set

« on: October 04, 2008, 05:16:55 am »

You should see, at least, an intermediate event in the BPMN Core Pallete.  What isn't obvious is how to set the trigger.  There you will need to open up the Tagged Values window and set the Trigger property.  Same holds true for things like Task Type.  

I have requested in the past that EA improve the BPMN modeling for this and also to include things like interchange (i.e. XPDL), but they don't seem to be focusing on this part of the tool. For that disappointing reason, I have switched to BizAgi for BPMN who offer a free modeler that is really nice.  I now insert exported diagrams (as image) into my EA models.  Not ideal, but works.

HTH

James Kinneavy