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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Structured Auto numbering

« on: October 22, 2004, 01:25:05 am »

I am not sure I like the suggestion of hierarchical numbering based on packages. You are fried if you need to restructure your packages.

In general a simple sequential numbering is sufficient and often better because it does not lock the structure into the identifiers.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Is the RTF generator the way to go for EA?

« on: September 13, 2005, 11:19:39 pm »

As long as there is no better lowest denominator RTF works fine for me. I can import it in many word-/documentprocessors.

I can even use words "dynamically import file as a field"-function to have my overall documentation in a word file which automatically imports and formats all model generated documentation. As soon as I have generated a new RTF, my document is ready for printing.

EA should not, and does not as I see it, replicate word-processing functions. It just tries to let you manage basic viewing of generated reports, right?

My problem is really that the template structure is illogical and cumbersome to tweak. I have a wish for a better visual clue to how the various template building blocks are logically connected.

Part of this problem is that meta-model is hard to understand, inconsequently used or possibly not documented well enough.

Would it not be possible to create a navigational structure following the hierarchy of the meta model that can be used when ever a relation/object etc. need to be selected.

One such instance is the Matricies where I have a hard time finding the correct association to use viz a viz the model that you have made.

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Suggestions and Requests / Report view for more than diagrams

« on: September 13, 2005, 11:39:27 pm »

I am looking for a way to get information about (in particular) use cases in a tabular form so that I can get an overview of version, phase, state etc.

The Report view allows copying and pasting into Excel e.g. But it only applies to a single diagram, as far as I know.

Is there a way to do this for a complete package structure?