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General Board / VC configuration "working copy path" shared between .eaps

« on: February 04, 2017, 12:59:00 am »

Hi, Im facing the following problem:

I have two .eap (s1.eap and s2.eap for reference purposes), one for each system im working. I configured VC in each one of them through the menu Project -> Version Control -> Version Control Settings..., and for the s1.eap I put in "Working Copy Path" a specific path, say "c:\systems\s1", while on s2.eap I configured it with other path "c:\systems\s2". In both eaps I used the same unique ID, say "system-path".

To my surprise, s1.eap was using the same configuration of s2.eap, it appears to be globally sharing between projects the unique ID "system-path". Isnt it supposed to be a project specific configuration as stated in documentation on "http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/8.0/projects_and_teams/configureversioncontrolwith.html" ?:

Once you have set up and tested the Local Working Copy, you are ready to define a Version Control configuration for use with the Enterprise Architect model to place under version control.

The EA version is 9.0

thanks

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General Board / Re: Connecting and making queries into the jet database of a eap file

« on: August 31, 2016, 11:23:48 pm »

I use a free SQL tool called AnySQL Maestro to query .eap files.

thanks will try that

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General Board / Connecting and making queries into the jet database of a eap file

« on: August 31, 2016, 06:05:07 am »

Hi, is it possible to connect to the jet database of a eap file? It is basically to query data (only select, no update or delete).

If it is possible, can we read these data into another application? I mean, is it binary or in a format that can be read?

Im trying to do this because my atempts of using script to generate documentation in EA 9 were frustrated by bugs and limitations in the script api.

Updating the version of EA isnt an option.

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General Board / best practice for versioning .eap using EA integrated version control

« on: August 24, 2016, 06:25:02 am »

when using EA (version 9) integrated version control, only the packages xml are versioned in repository. This means that to version the entire project, we must check in all the packages in the project. The .eap file itself isnt versioned.

In this way, what is the best practice to work with the .eap? Is it good practice to maintain it in a central file system, where all the users can access it through the network, and work in the same file, checking in/out the packages they want to modify?

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General Board / Re: how to generate document through script respecting template fixed contents?

« on: July 13, 2016, 05:28:30 am »

When I use the template with the document generator (f8), all the header/footer/static text in the template are preserved, but when used inside a script, the documentgenerator interface doesnt preserve those components of the template.

anyone know how to configure the documentgenerator interface to preserve these things?

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General Board / DocumentGenerator interface method documentDiagram problem

« on: July 07, 2016, 11:14:00 pm »

Hi,

when generating documentation through scripting, I use the method documentDiagram of the DocumentGenerator interface to document some diagrams in my model. In my template, I only print the diagram img.

The generated document contains a cut out img of the diagram, upside down.

Is this a bug? The version of EA is 9

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General Board / how to generate document through script respecting template fixed contents?

« on: July 07, 2016, 04:56:04 am »

hi,

how do I generate documentation using the document generator interface in scripting, and make it respect the fixed contents on the used template?

example: my template has header/footer, fixed topics with text, etc

when I generate using one of the API methods like documentElement( elementID, 0, MY_TEMPLATE )

it doesn't respect the header footer on the template, nor the table of contents, a first introductory topic, etc.

how do I make it respect the fixed content?

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General Board / Arguments for the use of Enterprise Architect

« on: April 30, 2016, 04:29:29 am »

Hi,

some of my co workers have grown up resistance against the use of Enterprise Architect, in contrast to doing the documentation in a document editor like openoffice writer, for instance.

If I was going to try to convince them to adopt EA, I would need a list of arguments, or interesting functionalities in EA that would corroborate my point of view.

I have the following arguments:

• you can draw diagrams (cannot be done in document editor)
• you can organize your documentation in a tree of elements (use cases, requirements, etc)
• you can generate multiple documentation using differente templates

could someone point me other interesting arguments?

thanks

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General Board / Re: how to create vb script for document generation in Version 9

« on: April 14, 2016, 10:22:49 pm »

thanks, i have found a way to do scripting in version 9, there is a scripting window where i can create scripts

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General Board / how to create vb script for document generation in Version 9

« on: March 23, 2016, 07:06:55 am »

greetings

how do i create a vb script for document generation in Version 9?

is it possible?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / rtf template for use cases and requirements

« on: December 12, 2015, 02:55:44 am »

Hi,

I've read the entire manual for creating rtf templates:

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/downloads/whitepapers/Working_with_the_RTF_generator.pdf

still, I cant find out how to structure my template so that the result output will be like follows:

[grouping table for scenario
 [grouping table for structured scenario]
]

[grouping table for requirements]

it is very simple, i want my use cases and their scenarios first, then after that i want my requirements.

the problem is that all the requirements used in a step of a scenario get printed on the scenario part instead of getting printed after all scenarios.

anyone know how to solve this?