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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Problems with Model Add-In Event EA_OnTabChanged parameters

« on: November 05, 2025, 08:29:14 am »

What that means is that the parameter is passed by reference (Although there's no good reason for it to do that originally, now the reason is to not break existing add-ins)

Javascript passes objects by reference and primitives by value, so the code has wrapped the value in an object.

Use TabName.val and DiagramID.val.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Notes per table row or cell in wireframes + linking table fields to data model

« on: October 17, 2025, 08:42:41 am »

A wireframe is a tool to mock-up a UI. (See ) Attempting to use it as a functional UI is fundamentally missing the point.

A [url=https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/17.1/model_publishing/define_a_model_view_chart.html]model view]) Attempting to use it as a functional UI is fundamentally missing the point.

A model view is a way to show a model element per row in a table on a table.

The Package Browser is an editable list, but it's limited to displaying a particular package.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: fysical data modelling not backward compatible

« on: October 14, 2025, 11:55:30 am »

What stereotype does the old table have? I'm guessing it's coming from an incompatible profile. Some older versions of EA were less rigorous about which stereotype was defined. That paired with more permissive checks in other places were also causing issues.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: BPMN quicklink broken if another MDG defines a stereotyped relation

« on: September 15, 2025, 08:43:29 am »

The problem is that the BPMN technology still uses the CSV to define the quicklinker.

To aid in migration, the model based definition overrides the CSV when it's defined.

The UML relationships don't do the same thing because the stereotypes are explicitly overriding the UML based relationships.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: shortcut files with extension .qea don't get registered in the Recent files

« on: September 02, 2025, 08:16:23 am »

- Save the connection as a shortcut with .qea  extension

Pretty sure that that's the issue. The save as shortcut should only allow .eap.

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General Board / Re: Can no longer post SQL Statements to this forum

« on: August 12, 2025, 02:23:30 pm »

I have never seen the configuration for Cloudflare, or the source for this forum. I don't want to do either.

If I assume this software is nearly perfect, but in some obscure function there is a single user input that isn't properly escaped. That's where a black box protection from Cloudflare is useful. It's not about anything being known to be broken it's about the problems that we don't know about.

I'm not sure if disabling this feature will really decrease the security.

You can argue that it's being excessive, I wouldn't necessarily disagree. The only way removing it wouldn't decrease security is if you are 100% sure that the forum and entire website is 100% bug free. I'm not convinced anyone can be 100% sure about anything or any software can be 100% bug free. By that measure, it is providing at least some security.

If you are not comfortable to disable this feature in Cloudfare, you should really not be comfortable to be using this forum software and update/change is ASAP.

I wouldn't be comfortable to change any setting in Cloudflare. That has nothing to do with this software.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: EAUML::table vs Table metaclass ?

« on: August 04, 2025, 08:43:02 am »

There is no Table metaclass.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Run EA in background with Node.js

« on: July 29, 2025, 08:15:24 am »

allows you to build a REST-API for EA[/li][/list]

https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/17.1/eula.html

Server based installations that provide concurrent end users with content or functionality derived from a running remote instance of Enterprise Architect over a network is not officially supported by Sparx Systems. (This is due to technical limitations in the Enterprise Architect product, specifically its construction as a single user application interacting with the desktop UI). If you wish to deploy or use Enterprise Architect in this manner, as a minimum you MUST adhere to the requirements detailed below and further elaborated here: https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/server-legal.html and accept the risks and responsibilities attendant on that;

• Every end user MUST have a genuine Enterprise Architect license of the correct edition;
• The end user must have a licence under their own name, even if that licence is obtained by that user's organization on that person's behalf;
• Sub-licensing Enterprise Architect by 3rd Parties to end users is not permitted;
• A Fixed license per end user is required without exception. Licenses cannot be dynamically allocated or transferred between end users;
• Unlimited Read-Only and/or Unlimited Read/Write access to a server based instance of Enterprise Architect is expressly forbidden as unlicensed end users may be illegally authorized (with or without their knowledge) to use the Enterprise Architect instance on the server.
• A server based instance must NOT be used to create a derivative work, adapt Enterprise Architect for another platform, virtualize separate functionality or otherwise contravene the rights and entitlements granted to Sparx Systems under copyright law and not expressly granted to the end user in the Enterprise Architect EULA.
• You acknowledge the risks and limitations inherent in using Enterprise Architect in a manner that is not supported nor recommended and waive all rights and warranties pertinent to this use.

By my interpretation you are telling people how to violate the EULA that you have agreed to.

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General Board / Re: Posting UML/SysML Diagrams to this Forum

« on: July 21, 2025, 09:23:03 am »

I'm taking a leap and imagining something like a super-lite version of WebEA or EALite embedded into the forum toolset.

The forum already allows exactly the same amount of diagram creation as either of those tools. ie. They don't allow you to create any diagrams, they only allow you to view them.

But ultimately, what you are asking for is: For us to create an entirely new UML design tool, even if it is a limited one.

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General Board / Re: Can no longer post SQL Statements to this forum

« on: July 21, 2025, 09:18:57 am »

this is very specific and a very Sparxian solution was implemented.

What exactly are you saying? What is a Sparxian solution and why is Cloudflare implementing one?

The forum allows me to post the statement below

the forum allows posting some really simple SQL statements

Again, it's not the forum allowing it or not. It's Cloudflare.

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General Board / Re: What does the Package_ID in t_object represent?

« on: July 21, 2025, 09:14:09 am »

If you have A selected (or specify its id/guid):

• t_object.Package_ID = #Package# will give you A100 only
• t_object.Package_ID in (#Branch#) will give you A100 and A120

Look at any package in your browser:

• t_object.Package_ID = #Package# will give you the immediate children
• t_object.Package_ID in (#Branch#) will give you everything you get using an expand branch (or *)

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General Board / Re: What does the Package_ID in t_object represent?

« on: July 17, 2025, 11:42:12 am »

I guess in both cases it is the identifier of the container package.

Yes.

The reason for the question is that I am trying to understand what the #Package# and #Branch# macros pass as their parameters. The package_id from t_package, the object_id from t_object, or the package_id from t_object.

Package_ID = #Package# or Package_ID in (#Branch#)

Only #Branch# has any kind of parameter and it takes the id or guid of the root package when you want that explicitly specified instead of using the currently selected package.

There are three permutations of this macro:
    in #Branch# - gets the ID of each child Package of the parent Package selected by the user
    in #Branch=<GUID># or #Branch=<ID># - gets the ID of each child Package of the parent Package specified by the GUID or ID
    in #Branch=<ID>,<ID>,<ID># - gets the ID of each child Package under each parent Package specified by its ID

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General Board / Re: How to produce a product breakdown structure in a table

« on: July 09, 2025, 10:30:24 am »

Just to be clear, I am not asking and will never ask for weaking security. However, Reddit and Stack Overflow support including SQL statements and do not class it as a SQL Injection, and, from a user functionality point of view, I do not see why this forum should no longer support the inclusion of SQL Statements in posts.

You are explicitly advocating to remove a security function. It may be excessive in its implementation but that doesn't change that it is still a security function.

Furthermore, the implication is that the software running the forum, which was not written by Sparx Systems, is unsafe, subject to SQL injections.

No, I'm stating that the cautious approach is to assume that unknown vulnerabilities may exist in any software.

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General Board / Re: Can no longer post SQL Statements to this forum

« on: July 08, 2025, 08:40:25 am »

I am wondering if there is a way to require each line to have a character that would make a SQL injection impossible.

If there is I imagine it would need to be checked on Cloudflare's side.

Another possibility is giving the members (at least the ones with some history) the ability to attach files.

It's possible in the forum software and I don't know how Cloudflare would interact with it. The most difficult thing with that is that it is also a potential vulnerability for end users.

A third possibility is having a moderator OK all messages that contain SQL. I'm sure there might be some members who would volunteer for that.   

Would still require a hole in Cloudflare's protection and if it's part of the forum software that means it's going into a database.

As the saying goes, "Where there is a will, there is a way"

Which is why global protection like this is useful.

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General Board / Re: Can no longer post SQL Statements to this forum

« on: July 07, 2025, 08:30:17 am »

Yes, someone from Sparx Systems is reading it. No-one from Cloudflare is.

The bad news that someone (me) will advocate against weakening the security. The good news is that I have no input on configuring Cloudflare (if it even is configurable).

Even if the weakening was only applied to this forum it would only be appropriate if we could say with 100% certainty that the forum code that we didn't write is 100% free from potential SQL injection. I don't think we can know that.

So, this inconvenience is a cost of security.