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General Board / Changing connector type not supported - EA 16.1

« on: June 09, 2023, 09:34:37 pm »

On I diagram I right click a connector to open the context menu; I then choose option Advanced > Change type ... (the tooltip reads: Change the UML type of the current connector (some restrictions apply)); EA then displays a dialog box saying 'Changing connector type not supported'. I tried this with some ten types of connectors and always get the same message.
(I only recently switched from version 15.x to version 16.1.)
Why restrictions? Where can I find information on these restrictions? Why don't I get a hit when I enter the sentence 'Changing connector type not supported' in the search field?

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Model Search SQL - behaviour of the plus-character

« on: January 16, 2017, 08:39:34 pm »

I did some tests:

• directly querying Oracle (from Oracle SQL Developer) the result is normal: "select 1 + 2 from dual" results in "3"; this seems to indicate that the problem is not in the database.
• when connecting to a local .EAP file, the result is normal too: "select 1 + 2 from t_object" renders "3"; this seems to indicate that the problem is not in my local EA-installation.
• same results on my colleagues computer.
• same result with EA-lite on another colleagues computer.

It looks like there is 'something' between our local EA-installation and the remote database that messes things up.

Here's the connection string my local EA-installation uses to connect to the database:
PROD Infrastructure on Oracle --- DBType=3;Connect=Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle.1;Password=<nonofyourbusiness>;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=A573_A1133;Data Source=IOICTR2P
I'll check with our local Oracle guru if this OraOLEDB.Oracle.1 might be the something I'm looking for.

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Bugs and Issues / Model Search SQL - behaviour of the plus-character

« on: January 13, 2017, 11:05:09 pm »

Dear All,
I need to simply add two numeric values within a query.
But I find the plus-character + to behave unexpectedly: it results in a concatenation, treating the numeric values as strings.
(the EA-repository is in an Oracle database, EA v9.3)
Example: "select 1 + 2 from dual" results in "12", believe it or not, same result as "select 1 | 2 from dual" and "select concat(1,2) from dual".
So, how to add numeric values?
I'm starting to loose faith in humanity when "select instr('abcde','d')+1 from dual" returns 41 in stead of 5 ... 

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General Board / Re: Open default project automatically at startup

« on: June 12, 2012, 08:15:45 pm »

Well, I kind of like the Project Shortcut concept. It's convenient to have a selection of diagrams and searches opened automatically in a fixed order, and that the project browser is unfolded accordingly.
A minor minus is that the window title displays the name of the shortcut in stead of the name of the opened project.
Thank you all for your posts. 8-)

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General Board / Re: Open default project automatically at startup

« on: June 07, 2012, 09:29:51 pm »

Hi Geert,
Well, I kind of knew that trick and it's what I've been practicing so far.
But since this reply is coming from you, it is helpfull anyway: I'm quite sure now that the option I felt I already came across, simply does not exist. Thanks for the relief!
Bert

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General Board / Open default project automatically at startup

« on: June 07, 2012, 07:37:18 pm »

hi all,
i'd like EA to automatically open my default project at startup.
by default project i mean the project i'm currently working on the most, so likely but not necessarily the most recently used project.
i feel a bit embarassed asking because i feel like i already have come across this option but can't find it anymore.