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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Bug: attribute moves after modify.

« on: November 18, 2006, 02:18:11 am »

Well, then that explains why I did not have these problems before. I hope it can be resolved soon, because it is quite annoying. Also, I think the old situation was better than the new situation: Adding an attribute is done only once per attribute. Modifying it is (in my situation) done more often.
By the way: This is the first bug i reported. Was this the right place to do so?

Han.

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Suggestions and Requests / Bug: attribute moves after modify.

« on: November 17, 2006, 05:14:53 am »

Hello,

I want to report a bug (I use build 800)

I have an object with stereotype entity. It contains attributes. Whenever I modify the description of an attribute, that attribute moves to the end of the list. I think this is a bug, because it is annoying behaviour. The attribute should stay in its position.

Cheers,

Han.

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General Board / multiple instances of same diagram

« on: April 28, 2009, 03:57:11 pm »

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to create a report in wich the same diagram is printed more than once. The only difference is the settings of the appearance of the diagram.
In my case I have data modelling diagrams that I would like to print in two ways, one with 'use Alias if Available' checked, while the other case it is NOT checked.
Of course I could copy the diagram and print each of the occurences with it's own appearance. However, the contents still is changing over time, and I want the diagrams to look the same.
Currently every time I print the diagrams, I change the appearence manually. That is combersomb.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Thanx

Han.

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General Board / Creating RTF document with multiple templates

« on: February 02, 2007, 05:03:49 am »

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to easily generate RTF documentation based on multiple document-template combinations at once.

Currently, it is possible to 'automatically' generate an RTF document based on a single root package, and a single template. This can be saved as resource. Currently, i have quite a few of such resources defined. I have to generate them one by one, and then I can construct the required word document by linking all these separate documents in.

Also, in the help I have read about 'virtual documents'. This comes close to what I want: This way I can select specific packages to be part of my documentation. The only thing more that I need is to be able to specify for every selected package what template to use. Currently, i only see that for all packages in a virtual document the same template will be used.

Until now I am forced to 'auto generate document' for all my chapters. 8-((  

Any suggestions?

Han Joosten.

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General Board / Re: Am I the only one who hates the template edito

« on: November 28, 2006, 05:57:00 am »

Can anything be said about what we can expect from the new editor? And when will build 801 be maide public?

Greetz,

Han.

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General Board / Re: Classes / attributes. How should I specify the

« on: November 14, 2006, 01:19:50 pm »

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies! I have been looking around some further, and reading about OCL I stumbled upon an example. It turns out I overlooked the stereotype 'Table'. When I use these, I get the option of setting 'NOT NULL' and PRIMARY KEY on the attributes. I did not have them for ordinary classes, which I found a bit odd.

So now I have a new problem: is there a way to convert classes tot tables, or do I have to delete the classes I have and create tables instead?

Thanks again!

Han.

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General Board / Classes / attributes. How should I specify them?

« on: November 13, 2006, 05:13:41 am »

Hi all,

I use EA now for two months as a modelling tool. I like it a lot, however, I do not think the database modelling is very easy.
My question is about modelling attributes in classes. Actually i have several questions:
1) How should I specify an attribute to be of the domain String(10) (a string of max length 10)
2) How should I specify what attribute(s) and/or relations are identifying an object of a class?
3) How should I specify that an attribute is mandatory/optional?
4) In case of optional, can I specify conditions in which case the attribute is mandatory?

Any other hints/tips are appreciated on modelling classes/attributes.

Thanks in advance

Han Joosten

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General Board / Re: What does the arrow mean in Sequence Diagram?

« on: September 29, 2006, 12:08:13 am »

Hi Simon and Jan,

Thanks for the responces. The link Simon posted was EXACTLY the answer to my question. And Jan, thanks for helping me out with posting an image with yabb.

Cheers!

Han.

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General Board / Re: What does the arrow mean in Sequence Diagram?

« on: September 28, 2006, 03:01:22 am »

Hi all,

Here is the picture of the arrow i mean:





PS How do i paste the original picture in her?? Now you only see the thumbnail??

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General Board / What does the arrow mean in Sequence Diagram?

« on: September 27, 2006, 01:38:29 am »

Hi all,

When making a sequence diagram, I notice that sometimes there is an arrow close to a message. It changes the appearence of the control. Could anybody explain the semantics?

PS I have a picture, but i have problems showing it in this message...  

Thanks!
Han.

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General Board / Feedback + Requests

« on: August 23, 2003, 04:40:00 am »

I just downloaded EA trial and I'm impressed

Very likely that we'll buy this one!

A few questions/feedback/requests points:

a) Are licenses floating? That is... 4 licenses means 4 concurrent users?

b) XMI export is confusing (select Rose to get XMI 1.1...)

c) How replication is supposed to work with MySQL is beyond me... Can MySQL serve as a master and then have disconnectedreplicas?

d) Adding attributes and operations should be easier - i.e. editing directly on the diagram (of course, EA would need to parse and validate the input.)

e) How am I supposed to express that a parameter to an operation is an array? Many tools supports the "myop(cool: MyType[]) : MyReturnType[] syntax.

Of course, MyType and MyReturnType are defined elsewhere in the model, I do not want to make MyType[] a new type, just an array of an existing type!

In what way are arrays supposed to be stored in XMI anyway? :-/

f) UML 2.0 support is going to be a must in Q3 2004 for us. Including action semantics. Any plans to support UML 2 within this time frame?

Thanks for any help!!!

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Uml Process / Re: How should I describe the behaviour of a syste

« on: December 14, 2006, 02:26:54 am »

Hi again,

Thanks for the replies. Specially the feature that David mentioned was new for me. It opens up several interesting options. I am going to play around with this, and see what happens.

Thanks for the inspiration!!

Han.

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Uml Process / How should I describe the behaviour of a system?

« on: December 13, 2006, 09:37:48 am »

Hi all,

I am pretty new to modelling with EA, but I like the tool so far. I use it only as an upper CASE tool, so only do design a system. Not for code generation or what.

I have been looking at the example model, and started from what i saw there. Now I have abstract classes defined in a design model, and I have a bunch of usecases.
Currently, I am going to specify the user interface. This will result in a set of screens, with associations to usecases.

What I am looking for is a way to describe the operations,    that describe how the system actually behaves. I could associate these operations to the buttons etc. on the screen. I do not feel that these operations should all be operations of the classes.
Also, I need a neat way to specify what attributes are used in those operations.

I cannot see how these things are done in the example model. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanx!

Han.

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Uml Process / Re: Modeling question: Comm with another system

« on: September 26, 2006, 11:19:49 pm »

Hi again,

Thanks for the replies! I wasn't too far away from modelling this, but the answers inspired me on doing it a little bit different.

Thanks!!

Han.

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Uml Process / Modeling question: Comm with another system

« on: September 25, 2006, 12:21:30 pm »

Hi everybody,

I am pretty new to EA, and not too familiar with UML too . I am looking for a way to model the following

I have a system A that has to communicate with another system, B. B offers an interface with an operation. The operation takes one or two attributes from a class, that contains much more attributes. It returns a set of data containing attributes from various different classes.

I have the interface class model defined already. If I add parameters to the operation, I seem only to be able to add entire classes. Not single attributes. Am I overlooking some feature of EA, or am I doing something else wrong here??

What I really want is to specify the communication with the other system. How does one specify an activity that is communicating with another system, for instance to get information about an address based on the zip code?

ANY help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Han.