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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Two quality of life improvements

« on: November 07, 2013, 01:50:15 am »

Roger that!

I need to add a tag value to 300 requirements ... had hoped it could be done smarter than one-at-a-time!

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General Board / Re: "Image Manager -> Update Selected" doesn't rea

« on: June 03, 2015, 07:10:22 pm »

Close/Reopen diagram is the trick!

Thanx q.  

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General Board / "Image Manager -> Update Selected" doesn't really

« on: June 03, 2015, 06:03:56 pm »

I have an image, say a display icon, in a diagram. I want to update the design but keep the name of the image.

I click the image and presses shift-ctrl-w to enter the image manager. Then i press "Update Selected" to load the updated image file which has same name as the original one.

Now the new image is shown in the image manager preview, but it is not updated in the diagram.

If I click the image in the diagram again, and press shift-ctrl-w, the image manager selects the right image, and shows the updated image in the preview - but in the diagram it is still the old image.

Is there a way around this - beside deleting the image and add it again?

I'm using EA 10.0.1009

Thx
Tage

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General Board / Finding descendants with common ancestor

« on: March 06, 2014, 01:13:41 am »

How can I build a search, that would give me all descendants of a particular base class?

Rgds
Tage

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General Board / Re: Measuring project progress/performance [KPI]

« on: February 28, 2014, 07:31:59 pm »

Thank Stefan & Gary!

Gary - interesting, kind of what I was thinking of. How do you gather and average your levels?

Best regards
Tage

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General Board / Measuring project progress/performance [KPI]

« on: February 27, 2014, 01:37:14 am »

I have a model with requirements, risks and a basic package diagram with defined classes underneath.

We are now starting detailed design.

For some reason ;-) my project manager want to measure progress. Since we're doing an embedded system, I have a few use cases but many classes (eg for OS, drivers and display handling), so running use case metrics would not be detailed enough I think.

Instead I would like to do progress tracking on classes (units), like "structural design 75% complete", "interface design 25% complete", "unit test: 0% complete" and the like.

I guess it could be done with adding a tag group with these characteristics, and use searches for reporting - but maybe EA offers a way better approach?

Any suggestions and experiences on this would be highly appreciated.

Rgds
Tage

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General Board / Re: Adding requirement sterotypes

« on: December 16, 2013, 11:42:46 pm »

Thanx alot Q - spot on!  

/007

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General Board / Adding requirement sterotypes

« on: December 16, 2013, 07:32:53 pm »

I have added a new stereotype "Product" to the "Requirement" element using the Settings->UML Types menu, but I am not able to select it when editing properties of a requirement element.

I tried to add a new class stereotype - this worked fine.

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General Board / Re: EA Validation for Medical SW process

« on: November 11, 2013, 08:47:35 pm »

Thanx Stefan and ChrisDr for your feed-back.

We are using EA in the way you suggest Chris, as a drawing tool and together with EAdocx generating documentation according to our SW lifecycle process and templates, and then review these documents.

I find it a bit of a hassle to generate these documents (even with eadocs), and I think review time would be better spent using EA.

So I conclude that it is possible to validate EA for this.

But since EA is still new in our company, I would suggest to our SW QA manager to get external help if we should decide to go in this direction.

Rgds
Tage

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General Board / EA Validation for Medical SW process

« on: November 08, 2013, 08:27:30 pm »

Does anyone have any experience with validation of EA as required by Medical device SW process (EN 62304)?

Rgds Tage

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General Board / Traceability reports

« on: October 29, 2013, 08:25:04 pm »

Hi

I have some top level product requirement, say PR:01.01. I have some software requirements, say SW:001 and SW:002 connected to Pr:01.01 (Whole aggregation - "contained" in PR:01.01).

I would like to list my SW requirements in a report, where, for every SW requirement, the requirements that agregates a SW requirement is listed.

How would I do that?

Are there some template libraries somwhere with a list of traceability reports?

Thanx
Tage

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General Board / Hierarchical diagram browsing.

« on: October 22, 2013, 09:55:53 pm »

When my design is exported to HTML, I get nice hierarchical browsing of diagrams, e.g: double click a Use Case and jump to the Activity Diagram below.

Can I browse between diagrams that way within Enterprise Architect?

Best regards
Tage

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Number format error in Project Management view

« on: April 02, 2014, 06:21:00 pm »

Ok Q - will do! :-)

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Number format error in Project Management view

« on: April 01, 2014, 10:16:29 pm »

Further investigations reveal that this only happens on my MySQL DB based repository.

My guess is that the update SQL format sends the value as it is shown in the dialog e.g. "1,000000", and it is then converted to 1e6 for the double value in the table, since the DB uses "," for thousands seperator.

I haven't found anywhere to change this  in the MySQL server or ODBC driver - apparently, with Oracle DB you can. But in any case, I think the update SQL commands from EA should convert this on the client site - SW teams may be international. :-)

Rgds
Tage

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Bugs and Issues / Number format error in Project Management view?

« on: March 11, 2014, 07:05:51 pm »

EA revision: 10.0.1009

The field Element->Project Management->Effort.time seems to have a problem with ',' and '.'

Try:

1. Create an effort "A" and set time to "1"
2. Save it
3. Click on another effort
4. Click back on "A" - time now reads 1,000000 - ok.
5. Now edit effort to e.g. "Aa" and click save
6. Click on another effort
7. Click back on effort "Aa" - time now reads 1000000,000000

Maybe a locale issue?

I use english windows with locale set to Denmark.
Decimal symbol is set to ','
Digit grouping symbol is '.'

I have not come accross this elsewhere in EA.

Rgds Tage