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Suggestions and Requests / Connectors tagged value support in diagram filters

« on: January 31, 2026, 02:01:13 am »

Hi,

Filters are useful to hide or grey out elements or connectors from a diagram.
There are currently 3 filter sets: Element, Connector and TagValue. The last set applies to elements' tagged values. Would it be possible to support connectors tagged values as a new option?
Working on a UML profile with stereotyped relationships, it would be great to easily filter such links based on their "stereotype" tagged value.

Thanks

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Shape Scripts: Text in Subshapes

« on: January 31, 2026, 01:57:50 am »

Hi Geert,

Currently I have 3 or 4 characters in my list of predefined values which makes it tricky to have a consistent result i.e. it's currently fine for values with 3 chars, not 4.
I'll have a look at your examples as it sounds like a fine idea to fix the rendering issues, thanks 

Guillaume

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Workflow scripts vs addin + attribute events

« on: January 28, 2026, 09:10:55 pm »

Hi,

I'm looking at the Workflows scripts to implement control rules e.g. to prevent groups of users from creating or updating specific model content.
First of all, I noticed on the user guide that VBScript workflow scripts are deprecated i.e. add-ins are recommended. Am I right to understand Sparx suggests using Model-based addins ?

According to the "Functions - Validate and Control User Input" page, a script can be triggered with events such as before creating an element or a connector, or before updating a tagged value. For other updates on existing elements, it doesn't seem to be possible to trigger a control before updating an element's notes or name, or creating/deleting/updating an attribute. Is there a workaround with Workflow vbscripts or by switching to a model-based addin ?

I noticed that add-in events include EA_AllowPropertyUpdate which is not supported in the script but I'm not sure if it's related with an attribute update.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Shape Scripts: Text in Subshapes

« on: January 28, 2026, 06:47:04 pm »

Hi Takeshi,

Thank you for the explanations 

To summarize, the parameters are:
1- Shape name
2- Width
3- Height
4- Relative value (horizontal to move left/right ?)
5- Relative value from the reference point (vertical to move up/down?)

Hopefully Sparx team will add clarifications and examples to cover these additional parameters in the user guide.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Shape Scripts: Text in Subshapes

« on: January 28, 2026, 02:08:48 am »

I just came across a similar issue.
Using a subshape to display the text is great but I can't find the parameters definition for "addsubshape" matching this signature: addsubshape("test", 50, 50, -50, -50);
I'm struggling moving the text to the right location by changing the 4 values (top? width ? ...)

The information I found from the user guide is addsubshape(string shapename(int width, int height))

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PCS General Board / Service Now mapping and synchronization questions

« on: December 12, 2025, 10:02:20 pm »

Hi,

I have a client's ServiceNow integration configured in their PCS.
In EA, when I open ServiceNow configuration, I can select one of its types as the external type e.g. Application and map it with an EA type or stereotype.
The issue is that I have several ServiceNow items of the same type from different views that I need to map with different EA stereotypes (maintained within an MDG).
If I want to create Local Elements from a ServiceNow view e.g. only with "Type A" components, I have no way of telling EA to create "Type A" stereotypes elements since the ServiceNow External type is common to Type A, Type B...
Would a change be required in this integration to either add views on a mapping, or define multiple mappings for the same ServiceNow external type and select the appropriate one when importing new elements from a view ? Is there a workaround e.g. I noticed there a way to create a Data Miner connection but I can't test it yet since the current EA license doesn't support it.

Other question: Once elements are created in EA, I need to manually run a synchronize linked elements from EA. Is there a way via a script or else to run this synchronization e.g. on a nightly basis? The PCS automatic updates only applies to the diagram/images sync on a repository.

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Bugs and Issues / attribute "link to element feature" not visible for a self relationship

« on: October 20, 2025, 11:30:20 pm »

Hi,

I have a UML class diagram with classes that show associations with the "link to element feature" enabled e.g. to map attributes with classes.
When the link is on the same class (source/target are identical), the relationship is not visually attached to the attribute.

I tested it on the latest EA17 build.

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General Board / Re: PCS & SQL Server 2022

« on: October 20, 2025, 10:14:53 pm »

Hi Modesto,

I have a number of clients who have successfully used SQL Server and the PCS, mostly with an OLE DB access, some with ODBC.
Overal I haven't seen any issue with EA DBs on MySQL, Postgres and SQL Server, especially now that the PCS is installed with all ODBC drivers.

Have you experienced any issue ?

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PCS General Board / Project Transfert via the PCS OSLC API

« on: October 16, 2025, 11:38:51 pm »

Hi,

I'm looking for a solution to define a script e.g. PowerShell to run a transfer from the team's EA project to a dedicated publication project (both dBs are configured on the same PCS).
The preferred option is to use the PCS OSLC API (license installed) yet I can't find any ProjectTransfer method matching EA's API ProjectInterface class.
Is it likely to be supported in the future or a decision not to expose this feature via the PCS API ?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: ArchiMate Grouping and Alternatives

« on: October 16, 2025, 12:48:35 am »

Looking at the ArchiMate Grouping element, it is not clear from the Open Group specification how this should be implemented. I would have used the UML Class as the metaclass instead of a Boundary so I can manage this element like other ones instead of diagram element under the ... special packages.

Working on an MDG, I managed to define Grouping as a Class stereotype and change the ShapeScript to render it the same way.

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Suggestions and Requests / New Filter "Not contain" condition

« on: October 02, 2025, 10:31:06 pm »

Using filters in RTF templates and diagrams, I would like to hide all elements with a name that doesn't contain a value.
This is not possible as the conditions are Contains, Equal to, Not equals. I tried to use wildcards with the Contains condition but it doesn't work.

Would it be possible to add the Not Contain conditions?

Thanks

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Custom Document import Word doc: image display issue

« on: September 26, 2025, 05:55:45 pm »

In this case, the image is not used on a diagram, but as a static one within a Custom Document, copied from a PNG file.
I submitted it as a bug.

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Bugs and Issues / Custom Document import Word doc: image display issue

« on: September 25, 2025, 07:50:47 pm »

Hi,
Working on a custom document in EA, I imported the client's Word template to initialize the static content & styles.
Whilst most images are rendered without any problem, I have an image that appears ok initially until I  reopen the Custom Doc: the image appears with a black background.
It appears to be an issue with some transparent images similarly to the bug when doing a copy/paste of a diagram with transparent images.
I'm using EA 17.1 latest build.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Searches in MDGs

« on: September 24, 2025, 11:55:23 pm »

In the Model search, you can also export your user searches to an XML file (all or a selection).
Click on the icon next to the Del (red cross) to open the menu > Export Search

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Hidden popups on multiple screens (solution?)

« on: September 16, 2025, 04:25:28 pm »

Hi

Thank you for your suggestion with the Win Alt Space ; I'll try that next time, especially if I don't use the latest EA build.