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General Board / Re: Converting basic UML elements to true Archimat

« on: February 22, 2014, 12:22:51 am »

I did see the Migrate ArchiMate 1.0 to ArchiMate 2.0 post and it did not serve my purpose.

The issue was precipitated by creating Archimate elements using the Archimate toolset directly and creating other elements as normal classes and then setting the stereotype to an Archimate element type --- these are not equivalent - even though for most intents and purposes these appear to equivalent within the system...

Nonetheless there doesn't appear to be a good way to convert the class based elements into true Archimate elements either manually or automatically (in bulk)...

I've changed the title of the post to reflect the true nature of the issue in case anyone follows along needing the same information...

Thanks for chiming in.

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General Board / Converting basic UML classes to Archimate elements

« on: February 19, 2014, 01:05:57 am »

Within my project I have ArchiMate_Representation elements that do not sort together within the Project Browser - I performed an XMI export and noticed that elements are grouping based upon uml:Class and uml:Activity but both have identical icons in the Project Browser. My guess is that the uml:Class is Archimate 2 and  uml:Activity is Archimate 1 - (I'm not clear how we ended up mixing both Archimate versions within the project - but we want to standardize upon Archimate 2). I would like a means to quickly/reliably convert the uml:Class elements to uml:Activity, so that we do not need to rebuild all of the relationships within the numerous diagrams that exist within the project - I contemplated hand modification of the XMI, but I’m balking due a lack of understanding of the attributes and schema of the two elements (additionally, this would be subject to a high degree of human error).

My hope is that Enterprise Architect would provide a mechanism to convert the elements for me… or that there would be a Window script/tool that I could run to do the conversions…