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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Multi-item edit at the same time

« on: December 15, 2005, 12:55:26 pm »

Fourthing this.

Thanks

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General Board / SUCCESS!!! - Mass change of Activities to Actions

« on: December 16, 2005, 09:19:55 am »

I leveraged my database skills to find a solution to this problem.

=)

1. Rename yourprojectname.EAP to yourprojectname.MDB
2. Open access database file with MS access
3. Open the t_object table
4. Update t_object set object_type = 'Action' where object_type = 'Activity'

While I DO NOT guarantee it's safety, this hack worked perfectly for me with no side effects, changing everything from an activity to an action. I presume you could hack this table to mass-change any object type.

I'm such a 733t h4xOrZ.

Yours in leverage,

-Greg

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General Board / Re: Mass change of Activities to Actions

« on: December 15, 2005, 12:54:48 pm »

Main Entry: leverage
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -aged; -ag·ing
: to provide (as a corporation) or supplement (as money) with leverage; also : to enhance as if by supplying with financial leverage

Ok, my usage is poor, but it is a verb...

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General Board / Mass change of Activities to Actions

« on: December 14, 2005, 01:27:06 pm »

I've created several activity diagrams using only Activity nodes. I'd like to redo these diagrams with activities as actions, so I can leverage Activties, Subactivities, and Actions.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

Greg

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General Board / HELP!!! reset package options

« on: August 28, 2003, 08:45:26 pm »

Hello, I stupidly reset the package options and cleared the file associations for my model. How can I reassociate my model, which now contains a huge amount of information, with the correct source?

Thanks

G

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General Board / Reverse Engineering of .class and .jar files

« on: December 30, 2002, 09:06:48 pm »

EA Team,

In my designs, I really need to reference .class files that may or may not be contained in a jar file. Basically, a design tool should allow for reverse engineering of compiled and archived files the same way it handles .java files. Obviously, the source code could not be accessed, but the class structure and method signature details would be available for dragging and dropping onto any logical diagram I create. It's really, really difficult to think about designs that descend from core java classes or 3rd party libraries without this feature. Rational Rose has this feature, as do most other UML design tools. I've looked everywhere in the help files, and have searched these forums, but don't see any indicator of how to do this.

Does this exist in EA? If not, that's a pretty serious shortcoming....

Thanks a lot,

Greg

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Uml Process / Re: How to set the responsibilities in a class in

« on: August 20, 2007, 11:19:42 pm »

I was just working through the white paper "Requirements Management with Enterprise Architect" and I found the following statement on page 13, specifically related realization relationships between UML elements and requirements:

"A model element is marked as 'Realizing' a requirement. Once this link exists, EA will display the requirement in the element responsibilities tab, in the requirement hierarchy view..."

This doesn't seem in line with reality (or with the answers provided in this thread), so can I thus assume that in more recent versions of EA, the concept of internal requirements and external requirements have been totally disconnected? In fact internal requirements aren't even listed in the hierarchy view.