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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Stereotype-based Filter in Relationship Matrix

« on: October 08, 2010, 06:16:49 pm »

I'd like to vote for this as well. We've got a large model, with lots of stereotyping, and the Relationship Matrix  is much less useful in these circumstances.
So let's have a Stereotype as well as the Type, and I'd happily support Tagged Values as a discriminator as well - good idea.

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General Board / Re: Class Attributes

« on: December 13, 2011, 09:54:48 pm »

Can I suggest you have a look at eaDocX? It's a new addin for EA, which we wrote to solve exactly the problems you describe: showing not just the attributes of an element, but those of it's relations. I think we've made this fairly simple, and even put hyperlinks into the resulting Word document to let your readers follow the EA relationships.
Anyway, have a look and see if it helps you - there's a 30-day free trial..

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General Board / Re: Styles & Section Numbering in RTF

« on: December 13, 2011, 09:03:51 pm »

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General Board / Re: Alternate to EA RTF generator

« on: June 13, 2011, 09:22:57 pm »

What's you eadocx.com user name ?

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General Board / Re: Alternate to EA RTF generator

« on: June 13, 2011, 05:31:54 pm »

At the risk of wanderings into the minefield that is the 'document generator', I've been a user of EA for many years, and, in desperation, have written what I think is the "ad-hoc document generator" being sought. It's been 6 years in the growing, 18 months in development, and has 1 year of productive use on a 4-BA project. My current main document is 307 pages.

The product is eaDocX, and you can download a beta at http://www.eaDocX.com.

It's not the finished item, but if you need to create ready-to-publish Word documents from EA, it's worth a look. Getting EA and Word to play nicely is a bit like getting elephants to dance, but we've tried to keep the steps simple....

It's been enough to convice my current customer (A large UK mobile telco) that eaDocX makes EA suitable for anyone/everyone in the organisatrion to use, now that we can create better documents than hand-crafted Word+Visio ones. Good news for UK-based EA experts.

Anyway, please have a look, and let us know what you think.

Ian Mitchell

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General Board / Re: Alternate to EA RTF generator

« on: June 10, 2011, 07:20:53 pm »

Geert - I know we showed you a very early prototype of eaDocX a year ago - things have moved on a lot!
We have a new Beta at http://www.eadocx.com- please have a look. We built-in many of the features you asked for last year, including making it a full EA Add-in.

Thanks
Ian Mitchell - eaDocX Development

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Uml Process / Re: How to export use cases to MS Word

« on: December 13, 2011, 08:58:38 pm »

If you need a really professional-looking document, have a look at http://www.eaDocX.com: we have some examples of what EA Structured Scenario use cases can look like, with hyperlinks between the basic path and alternates/exceptions. We can also show links between use cases & actors, and use cases & requirements, if that's what you're doing.
There's an example at http://www.eadocx.com/index.php/pdfsamples-2.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Automatic RTF generation with Java API

« on: April 23, 2012, 11:37:48 pm »

If you are this serious about producing documentation out of EA, have a look at eaDocX - lots of options for creating documents.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: easier selection in Batch Document Generation

« on: April 23, 2012, 11:39:01 pm »

If you're serious about document generation, have you looked at eaDocX ?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: RTF report : hierarchy of model not respected

« on: April 23, 2012, 11:36:11 pm »

No distrspect intended to the EA RTF generator, but if RTF can't produce what you want, have a look at eaDocX.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: ScenarioStep.LinkedElements

« on: February 29, 2012, 03:07:35 am »

Thanks to Geert, I can now answer my own question.
The ScenarioStep.LinkedElements data is inside the XMLContent column of the t_ObjectScenarios table.
I couldn't see it because I was looking at the database via Access 2007, which for some reason doesn't display the XML which is in the column.
If you want to use the contents of the XML, be prepared for some XML parsing, and for some fragile code, as the structure of the data isn't Sparx's finest hour...
Thanks Geert

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / ScenarioStep.LinkedElements

« on: February 28, 2012, 07:18:57 am »

Has anyone managed to make the ScenarioStep.LinkedElement call work? I can get the name of a linked element ok (ScenarioStep.link) but the collection which is supposed to contain the Elements themselves is empty, and occasionally when called, makes EA fall over!
Failing that, does anyone know where Sparx keep the ScenarioStep instances in the database? The Help is unusually silent on which table contains the data.
Thanks

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Sharepoint 2010 Integration

« on: February 21, 2012, 04:44:14 am »

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I'm the author of eaDocX (but also a user)
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Our project uses eaDocX to generate documents, which are then stored on a Sharepoint: we found that the HTML generator created so many files that Sharepoint took ages to processes them all - each HTML file seemed to be a separate Sharepoint 'thing', and the HTML generator produces LOTS of things..
See http://www.eadocx.com

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Using Word "List of Figures" does not work

« on: February 14, 2012, 08:38:10 pm »

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: documentation template: how to list elements

« on: February 14, 2012, 08:35:45 pm »

Fabrizio,
 if you're struggling with the RTF generator - and who hasn't- have a look at our new EA document generator: http://www.eaDocX.com. This might give you the kinds of documents you need. There's a 30 free trial, so you can have a look and see if it helps.