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General Board / Re: Managing aliases for many sharing modelers

« on: February 17, 2012, 04:50:39 am »

1. Yes. The recent number is stored in a table
2. No. See 1. But I don't know whether there is a good locking mechanism. (I guess not.) But it's quite unlikely that two persons create a new element the same time.
3. skip
4. Don't know. Probably. But it's harder to find then.

q.

P.S. Oh. Above only works if you have a central repository. If you have a decentralized solution (one EAP repos per user) just forget your solution. It won't work.

We all share the same model SQL and Subversion

Thanks for your help

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General Board / Managing aliases for many sharing modelers

« on: February 16, 2012, 08:45:08 pm »

My company is merging 2 products and would like to merge the 2 EA models. Our plan is to have 1 model on our server and use Subversion for package control.

We use the alias to identify each element uniquely – the pre fix defines the type of element followed by a number EA generates.

What I need to do is for new elements introduce an new scheme – with new prefixes. Now my questions

1.      The auto numbering scheme is defined in the model, so everybody using model will use the same scheme. Is this correct ?

2.      What about the numbering itself – I guess that every separate running EA will generate its own numbers, so therefore there will be clashes when packages are checked in. Is this true ?

3.      If 2 is true – we would add a suffix to identify the PC (user), this would guarantee unique ids, but each user would need to alter their settings. Is the definition for alias stored in a table that I can access and change with an sql search, if so which one ?

4.      Is there a better way of doing this ?

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General Board / Re: Renumbering aliases

« on: February 16, 2012, 09:54:23 pm »

Only by a smart SQL or by using automation but not with any EA GUI.

q.

Thanks - but what do you mean by automation

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General Board / Renumbering aliases

« on: February 16, 2012, 08:39:23 pm »

Hi

I am using auto numbering to generate an alias for elements. Currently I am merging a number of model together and wish to re-number the aliases.

Is there any way to do this, apart from manually for each element ?

Many Thanks

Juerg Mueller
Accarda AG
Switzerland

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Add word type index to a report

« on: August 17, 2010, 06:42:13 pm »

I wanted to include an  index as part of a very large report I generate from EA. Unfortunately EA cannot do this directly but I found a way round.

You have to use "Auto Mark" and a concordance file (for word but should work for other word processors)

A concordance file is a file with a table that define all the term you which to have indexed.The table has  2 columns and 1 row for each term - col 1 the term , col 2 the text/description. This table I generate in EA - in my case it simple as I want an index of element aliases.

Once I have the concordance file I go into word, go to generate index and there select "Auto Mark" - which then demands the name of the file. Once this has been done just generate the index.

The same is possible with the RTF  file using other work processing tools.