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General Board / Re: decision table editor in corporate edition ?

« on: August 02, 2016, 10:29:41 pm »

that's what I was doing: try to find it in comparison table, but didn't find it

what edition do I have to use to enable that feature ?

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General Board / decision table editor in corporate edition ?

« on: August 02, 2016, 10:19:09 pm »

the "decisions" icon in the 13.2 beta version is grayed out and no context menu on elements is available;

is it because I have the corporate edition or do I anything wrong ?

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Bugs and Issues / EA 13 beta - crashes when using Kanban diagrams

« on: June 21, 2016, 09:29:10 pm »

Steps to Reproduce:
Open a new diagram and switch to Kanban. Configure and add a model, then add filters. When you end the Kanban dialog, EA retrieves the elements from the model and when trying to refresh the diagram, it crashes. After restarting EA and openening the diagram you can see the lanes and elements. So it looks like a crash in the refresh procedure.

When I use the kanban dialog to change appearancethen the refres works. It seems to be a problem if the data source was changed using configuration and/or filter panel in the kanban dialog.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: option: add "TODO" as PROJECT TASK

« on: July 02, 2007, 12:54:49 pm »

Hi,

thanks a lot for clearing this up !
By the way: Are there different locations to pin TODO's ? I always thought, that there is only the project issue panel to place TODO's ... !?

Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: option: add "TODO" as PROJECT TASK

« on: July 02, 2007, 12:56:00 am »

Why so complicated ?

Look at those two examples:

A) # TODO: should calculate maximum of a and b
B) # TODO: calculate maximum of a and b

These two examples are different and should be regarded as two different project tasks. There should be a synchronizing option to prompt the user for action (delete old TODO, keep old TODO, add new TODO etc.)

There is already a algorithm that loads comments into EA's class notes. So I guess, TODO's could be identified as well (class comment, method comment).

Regards
bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / option: add "TODO" as PROJECT TASK

« on: July 01, 2007, 11:37:40 am »

Hi sparx-people,

before importing source code, I would like to trigger the option to import all "TODO" marks inside my sources as PROJECT TASKS.

Fictive example:


[...]
class MyClass:
  def max(self, a, b):
      # TODO: should calculate maximum of a and b
      return 0
[...]

Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS and CRC CARD DIAGRAMS

« on: July 17, 2007, 10:39:56 pm »

Hi David and Jim,
thank you very much for the tipp regarding UML profiles. On the first view, it looks complicated, but after looking at the _image and _imageFile examples, I was able to create an own set of diagram elements: Stakeholders (=Actor) and Goals (=Requirement).
The topic now is, that my new elements are still instances of the existing stereotypes (such as Actors and Requirements). Though my actors and requirements now show nice EMF-files in the diagrams, they are still "actors" and "requirements". So, I can not search for stereotypes "goals" or "stakeholders" in the element list view.
Another question is, how to change the icon being displayed at the resources UML-profiles tab, which still shows the standard actor and requirement icons. The shapeScript documentation allows to change _imageFile, but not the icons of the types.
Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS and CRC CARD DIAGRAMS

« on: July 17, 2007, 05:55:47 am »

Hello thomas,

I would like to formalize the stakeholder, goal, needs and problem definition part of the project using special symbols for these objects.

Is it possible to create new toolbox elements, which can be dragged and dropped over to diagrams ?

Regards
bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS and CRC CARD DIAGRAMS

« on: June 17, 2007, 12:48:25 am »

Hello (thomaskilian),

what is the alternative way to do the textual analysis then ? Should I create an empty analysis diagram and put text on it and create visual links to actors and/or use case scenarios ?

Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / TEXTUAL ANALYSIS and CRC CARD DIAGRAMS

« on: June 16, 2007, 11:46:15 am »

Hello,

I would like to start my project with a pure TEXTURAL ANALYSIS DIAGRAM (no pictures, just plain text). Then I would like to extract use cases and actors out of these textural analysis documents by dragging nouns and verbs out of the text onto use case diagrams linking these elements (UC's/actors should link to nouns/verbs and vice versa).

Then I would like to open one of those use cases and define class candidates by using CRC CARD DIAGRAMS which allow the identification of class candidates and their relations. Finally this would lead to domain models and sequence diagrams.

I am interested, what other users think about this. Comments are welcome.

Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: bulk import of pictures

« on: June 19, 2007, 11:43:10 pm »

The XML file has two major components:
a) a XML structrue, which is readable and can be generated
b) a Base64 encoded object

I just created a new MDB and made a link to table t_image of my EA project file. Then I have created a form, which is based on the t_image table. But there are no visible pictures inside, though the table is filled with "large binary objects". What is the format of the pictures that EA displays ?

Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / bulk import of pictures

« on: June 05, 2007, 02:42:22 am »

Hello,

I would like to import an amount of pictures into my EA picture library. Instead of klicking "Add new" (Settings->Images) for every single picture, I would like to import a complete folder with a number of pictures. Is there an option to achieve this bulk picture import or should this go here as a feature request ?

Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / Please update your feature demonstration pages

« on: June 18, 2007, 10:22:53 am »

Hello EA folks,

I just discovered by chance that wonderful "Swimlane Matrix" with the phenomenal Zachman example, which could be a perfect intro summary diagram for any project. Maybe this is old news, but I never heard or read about it yet.

You should seriously update your feature list and demonstration pages, since you have so much to offer and there seem top be so many functions hidden somewhere in the backyard of sub-submenus, which I never would suspect to be found in a 200 $ tool.

Keep on with it, you are doing an amazing work !!

Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: generate sequence diagrams from source

« on: May 29, 2007, 09:27:18 pm »

My personal opinion is, that EA should be able to extract diagram tips from the source. Today we have one model inside EA access database and another (the real) model inside the source. What happens is, that you have to update both of them and you also have to consider the constraints affecting other parts of the model.

a) if you go the XP way, you will start with test classes instead of UML models. And while you are testing and writing classes, you could embed notations into your sources. EA then would be a wonderful diagram viewer, if it could extract those graphical tips from the source comment. Optimistically, you would only open EA and import the sources and and get a full documentation generated from the comments. This would be an amazing feature for XP coders that no tool offers today !

b) If you start the classical way by drawing UML models, your source will eventually differ from the models and then you have to redraw the UML models all the time. If the UML models were part of the source comment, I would be able to reimport them and get my models updated. This would be a fantastic feature that no tool offers today.

Because of the semantic ambiguity of source (polymorphism etc.), I would suggest to rely on the comments inside the source instead of interpreting sources. These comments were either constructed by an EA source export or by the manual input of a programmer whild coding.

The idea behind this suggestion is, to spread the EA models content over the source comments when generating source.

Since these inline diagram tips are language independet, there is no need to reconcile that syntax with different programming languages.

Regards
Bernd

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: generate sequence diagrams from source

« on: May 28, 2007, 01:09:58 pm »

Hi Guru,

extracting sequence charts by guessing the semantic is not an option at all. What I would like to do, is to give EA some concrete hints when it reverse engineers my source. I would like to add some sender/caller graph hints and when I draw sequence diagrams, EA should offer those sender/caller options while (re-)drawing.

I think it is a big topic in any project, if EA models and source start moving in two directions. But since EA is no source development tool, you have to switch to another IDE at some time of your project (e.g. when coding begins).

IMHO, after some days of coding, the source is where the logic lies and therefore i would want to update my EA diagrams by reverse enginnering, instead of redrawing those pictures permanently. Pictures and text is nice during design phase, but it is a mess to keep it consistent while coding.

Maybe EA can embed some descriptions about classes and diagrams into the source, that EA generates (e.g. putting ID's of objects into the comment together with additional information about methods, variables etc.). Then I would have the option to change these values and get an update of my sequence and class diagrams inside the sources.

It would be superb, if I could "redraw" my EA models by reverse engineering my sources.

Regards
Bernd