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Suggestions and Requests / Data Model - DTR

« on: March 16, 2010, 01:39:17 am »

Hy fellows, good morning.

I'm from Brazil and the company that hired me use Enterprise Architect.

First of all, sorry by any mistake on the english writing (bad pratice).

We are using this case tool to data model.

In our data model, We've some domain tables that needs to have related tables that stores historical data (so, their attributesstructure are, basicly, equals).

In EA, I couldn't copy the table in the same diagram and, to improve de productivity.

I mind to do this and, after that, add the new attributes, set nullable property to the attributes that are equals in the domain and historical data table, etc.

How can I do this?

If it doesn't possible, please, take this as an advice to an upgrade on this case tool.

Thanks.

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Bugs and Issues / Data Model - bug on saving the diagram

« on: March 20, 2010, 09:27:41 am »

Good evening.

First of all, sorry by bad english - I'm from Brazil and, currently, I have a bad pratice in this language.

I have a data model in EA 7.5, since I've using the trial version.

Important: My company bought one license (enterprise/floating) and we already have started to use it.

In my data model, I have some diagrams, each diagram, have many tables and their relationships. There is one relationship between these tables that presents me a bug. All tables have the <database> attribute set to Oracle.

So, let's go to the bugs description.

First, I verified that the relationship isn't a an FK, in fact. So, I deleted it and recreated. No bugs here...

After, that I turned it into a FK (right button click over the assossiation, left click in Foreign Keys option in the popup menu, select the datafields of both tables and, then, click on the ok button). No bugs yet.

No further changes in all diagram or in the Enterprise Architect Project file.

When I try to save the diagram, the bug is unveiled: the FK I’ve just created disappears - only the assossiation persists, but the operation related to that FK, the label that is presented at the left side, close to the datafield name on the table, an the label that shows which datafield of the source table is equals of the datafield of the destination table (both of this stuffs) disappears completely.

I'd try four different ways to save the changes:
1- keyboard shortcut - ctrl + s;
2- clicked the save icon (there are two*, but I waited to the tooltip to assure I'm clicking on the right button);
3- overwriting the current file through save as option - presente on menu file; and
4- created a copy of such file using the same option of as item #3.

*PS: that's one mor issue... undo and save buttons have the same icon...

Please, solve it and warn all users that has support of the Spark Systems to obtain the version that contains this and another fixes.


Thanks a lot!