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Suggestions and Requests / PostgreSQL inheritance support

« on: February 10, 2006, 10:56:53 am »

PostgreSQL supports defining tables that inherit from other table definitions. In my model I am defining my << table >> class definitions and am using generalizations to the super types. When the model is generated however it does not add the inherits keyword to the CREATE TABLE definition.

Would it be possible to add support for generating SQL with inherit keywords? Or does it already exist as an option.

Cheers,
Paul

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Suggestions and Requests / Command line HTML export

« on: February 06, 2006, 02:18:59 pm »

I wonder if it would be possible for EA to have a command line tool that would take a model and product the HTML documentation for the model.

This would be used by a script in my source code control system that would automatically create the HTML documentation when an updated model is checked into Subversion.

Cheers,
Paul

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Default line style for class diagrams

« on: February 02, 2006, 02:05:09 pm »

Cheers, I missed that when I looked

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Suggestions and Requests / Default line style for class diagrams

« on: February 02, 2006, 09:09:48 am »

I'm not sure if there is a setting for this as I could not find it, I guess I might have missed it.

Anyway if this feature does not exist I would find an option in the preferences (global and diagram specific). Where I can specify the line style and default visibility of the line lables (this could extend to all the other view preferences for classes etc, but lines are the ones that take the most time right now). Then when I create a new association it uses those defaults instead of direct routing.

Related to the above there is a BUG that when you change the line to auto, then make some change to the "from" class of the association the line style gets changed back to custom from auto routing, which is a big of a pain.

Cheers,
Paul

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Suggestions and Requests / foreign keys using inherited columns

« on: February 01, 2006, 03:28:01 pm »

In the PostgreSQL db you can define a table to inherit from another table. In this scenario the primary key of the table will normally be defined in the super table definition and then inherited by the sub tables.

In EA 6.1 the Foreign Keys... dialog on an association does not show the inherited columns so you have to duplicate the columns in each of the sub tables.

It would be useful if the list could show the inherited columns in the foreign key dialog.

Cheers,
Paul

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General Board / Omit package from HTML Documentation

« on: January 18, 2007, 12:51:11 pm »

The current HTML documentation generator produced documentation for all packages and objects in a model. I have a requirement to just generate the documentation for the diagrams (deployment and sequence) within the model. I've moved all the supporting objects such as Nodes, classes and objects into another package so they are out of the way.

Is it possible to request that only certain packages are output in the HTML documentation?


Cheers,
Paul

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Very Custom HTML documentation

« on: July 05, 2006, 02:46:49 pm »

I would like to completely customize the output of the HTML documentation generated, including changing the order of items displayed, doing away with the framesets and hiding some kinds of elements (e.g. object instances) from the package contents list. Also to name the pages and images based on the element names rather than an incremnting number (e.g. Product Ordering Sequence v.s. EA456.html).

Looking at the template mechanism this doesn't look that feasible.

Is there a simple way to create a add in on linux to access the model so that you could then write out HTML based on the model. Or has anyone already developed such a tool.

Also is there documentation on the list of custom tags that are available for each template part in the Web Style Templates.

Cheers,
Paul