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General Board / Odd behavior with imported stereotype

« on: July 01, 2003, 04:55:59 pm »

We have an EMF of a relational database cylinder that we want to use as a stereotype icon. When we associate this EMF with an actor, the cylinder shows up as tall and thin. When it is associated with a component, it is short and flat. Both stereotypes come from the same EMF. Why does it appear differently depending on the type in the diagrams?

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General Board / Re: Enterprise Version - Multiple Users

« on: June 26, 2003, 04:41:41 pm »

I think that you're doing too much work with the replicas. MySQL allows multiple users to work on the model at once, so if every member of your team has access to the model, then let them do their model updates without extra administration.

The big question is if you want to enable security or not. We have enabled security, and rquire user locks to edit a component. It is an extra step, but we think that it keeps things from corrupting in the database.

To see if you want the extra hassle of security and user locks, try this: Set up a sample data store with no security and let your whole team edit the same diagrams. You should see the diagrams change as you reload them, but the database should be able to handle the updates. If it makes your team members queasy to see their diagram being changed by someone else, then implement security.  

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General Board / Re: Error Loading existing project

« on: June 16, 2003, 11:19:08 am »

Another problem might be your database version. We get this error message when we try to open an Access 2000-based project without setting the "Use JET 4.0" option. Give this a try.

You have to open the sample program, then click on the View/Options menu selection, then check the "Use JET 4.0" checkbox option. This will require you to restart, then you should be able to open your project.

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General Board / Max # of engineers on a single EA instance?

« on: June 13, 2003, 08:31:15 am »

We are starting a program that could have up to 40 users on a single EA database. We are using MySQL, (not Access) as the back-end data store, as we have had problems synchronizing individual EA databases in Access.

How large is your team working on EA? Have you have any problems with collisions, data corruption, scaleability? Is there anything we should be aware of before we start this project?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / How to supress the Login Prompt through AI?

« on: April 22, 2005, 01:10:28 pm »

I have written a program to regenerate the HTML documentation of our model. This program is to be run as a standalone cron job every night. It works, except that a login prompt appears as I open the repository, preventing the cron job from continuing.

Is there any way to supress this pop-up? Our model has security to keep the normal users in line. We are using MySQL as the repository.

Thanks in advance.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Can automation load a database repository?

« on: April 22, 2005, 12:33:14 pm »

Thanks after the fact. I was just about to post this question when I came across this response. It worked like a champ. The next time you update the automation interface documentation, I would recommend that you post an example of this. This was a poser for a while.