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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Any sign of layers yet?

« on: October 19, 2010, 01:44:01 am »

wow,

I was not aware of the model filter option. It's a nice start, and comes in the direction of layers. I really like the different filter effects.

The reason why it still does not suffice as layers is because i.m.h.o. layers are applied per diagram, where the filters are applied globally. (When I create a filter to e.g. hide the actors, all diagrams that I open with actors on the diagrams are hidden.) With my presentation form, consisting of an export of all images and embedding the images in other documents, this will not allow me to show actors on one diagram, and hide them on another diagram.

As improvement I would suggest to define the filter action per filter, and not globally. This would allow to hide the actors and at the same time fade the use-cases, placing emphasis on the bounderies of the use-case diagram. (not the most logical thing to do, but used as example to clarify my objections).

With a little bit more attention, and implementation of the issues I mentioned above, I could see the "smart layers" work really well and help me hugely while I'm using EA for analysis and design.

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Suggestions and Requests / Any sign of layers yet?

« on: September 25, 2010, 10:04:07 pm »

Although this may be an old suggestion, I am still hoping that Sparx will one day implement layers in EA.

As I use EA mainly for business processes, requirements and business rules, I'd still love to be able to have these different elements in a single diagram, yet in different layers. This should allow me to show/hide the elements that I want to see or don't want to see,

Is there already any indication if Sparx will implement something like this, and of so, when?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Suggestion: Layer support in diagrams

« on: December 07, 2006, 03:07:55 am »

I  must admit that also we would like to see this functionallity supported. Any modern day drawing tool works with layers. (Even MS Visio supports the layered concepts).

Specially for maintenance and web presentation, MS Visio may be used as example, for they do actually support this quite well.

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General Board / Re: Am I the only one who hates the template edito

« on: October 25, 2006, 04:02:54 am »

I guess I was jumping to conclusions in my original statement.
I just upgraded from 797 to 799, where all RTF issues are solved, and now my templates don't work anymore.

Maybe I should forget about EA all together, if I cannot provide the required information to the rest of the organization

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General Board / Am I the only one who hates the template editor?

« on: October 24, 2006, 04:01:48 pm »

As change happens more frequent than I can capture, I am already not really in favor of generating .rtf documents for these are out-dated by the time the generator is done. However in a larger organization, people expect word format documents to sign off on.

Now maybe I have not yet found the trick, but the template editor hardly ever does what I would expect of the editor. For example, I have a template defined without any diagrams visible in the template. This template is a good foundation for another template, but now I need to add a diagram to the document. I can select the diagram checkbox, but nowhere in my template do I see the yellow marked "diagram>" indicated.

This is one of the many examples of how the template editor does not provide me what I would expect of the template editor.

Is there a (smart) way to edit templates, without the need to use the template editor for inserting fields, tables and formatting?

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General Board / EA database details?

« on: October 26, 2006, 12:05:59 pm »

Can anyone provide me with the details of the EA database, and how the information is stored in the database so I can define my own queries on the database, please?

I need to get a number of reports out of the system in Excel format and EA does not support me in creating these reports.

Thanks in advance.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Only objects within a single root tree

« on: October 18, 2010, 10:24:57 pm »

Thank you Geert,

Not what I wanted to hear, but in line with my expectation.
I was hoping EA would be able to provide support for this. I cannot imagine that I am the only one who is looking for this kind of information.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Only objects within a single root tree

« on: September 25, 2010, 09:45:52 pm »

I hope this is the right location to ask, and I sure hope someone will be able to help me.

Within EA, within a single EAP file, I have multiple roots (more projects).

With SQL statements (e.g. Excel accessing the eap as MS Access DB) I am looking for all the objects (t_object) within a single tree, not showing the objects from another tree.

With my lack of SQL knowledge, I hope you experts can help me complete the query for that.

"SELECT t_object.name
FROM t_object
WHERE t_object.object_type = '<some type'
AND t_object.folder IN (<what do I put in here?>)"

Thank you in advance for your help.