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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Exporting Data Models to Erwin

« on: April 28, 2009, 11:18:22 pm »

Thanks, Geert—I’d be interested in seeing the sample.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Exporting Data Models to Erwin

« on: April 28, 2009, 01:17:49 am »

That would do it, then.

Have you ever built such a program?  What would a suitable language be?  Are there any similar examples out here?

Thanks!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Exporting Data Models to Erwin

« on: April 27, 2009, 10:26:27 pm »

Thanks, Geert.
Totally agree about the PITA part.

Would your coding solution be dependent on the underlying database we use for EAP?  Architecture currently limits me to MS-Access, though we're trying to get inline for SQL server.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Exporting Data Models to Erwin

« on: April 25, 2009, 02:22:29 am »

New to the forum...

We are attempting to export data models developed in EAP 7.0 into Erwin 7.2.9.  We've had good results in moving entities, attributes and relationships across, using XMI 1.0 as an intermediate format.

However, we haven't had much luck in getting a readable diagram out of the imported model in Erwin.  All entities arrive on top of each other, and we've so far had to manually position those entities to match the original EAP diagram.

Is there any way to modify our export routine so that a legible version of the diagram moves along with the data objects?