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General Board / Re: Assigning an element to two packages?

« on: August 01, 2014, 09:59:05 am »

I agree with Helmut. The relationship you are trying to model is that a Requirement "is relevant to" a Package. I don't think ownership is a good modelling construct to model that relationship. A dependency is better, maybe with a stereotype that has some meaning to you.

Hi yes, i didn't think there would be a way - thought it was worth a try.

I'm using dependencies at the moment. All my requirements are linked to one or more "files" (a custom stereotype). But my problem is that each of these requirements have a whole set of tagged values and that a business requirement I have is to be able to look at a "file" and filter out only the requirements that have certain tagged values.

I can use the package browser to filter against the tagged values but I can't filter out the requirements that aren't in my file.

Conversely I can use a diagram and the traceability window to show only requirements that exist within a file but then I can't use the diagram filter to filter out tagged values...

It seems there's no easy way to search both on dependency and tagged values at the same time.  

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General Board / Assigning an element to two packages?

« on: July 31, 2014, 04:48:20 pm »

I have a list of Requirement elements that are relevant across two seperate Packages.

Is it possible to have it stored in both packages so that it is searchable in the package browser for each of them?

Or do I have to actually create two elements - one for each package?

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General Board / Re: Filtering by relationships and tagged values

« on: July 28, 2014, 04:44:57 pm »

Have a read in the help file about "Matrix Overlays".

What you will be doing is creating a new overlay called ValidationLevel and giving it a list of valid values (e.g. "12345"), then you can apply the overlay on each cell and the value will be saved in a tagged value on the connector. (It's probably easier to do than to explain)

have you got more in depth documentation on what these matrix overlays are aside from here (http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/10/navigate_search_and_trace/matrix_overlays.html)

I'm not quite understanding the concept.

Also, once you create an overlay, how do you edit or delete it?

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General Board / Filtering by relationships and tagged values

« on: July 28, 2014, 11:43:29 am »

I have a model - in this model there are two types.

1 Validations
2 Files

A file has many validations and a validation can belong to one or many files.

In addition, each validation has a number of tagged values describing the validation (eg. ValidationLevel, EffectiveFromDate)

Now I can use the Traceability or Relationship window to see all the validations for a given file.

I can also use the Project Search to filter validations by its tagged value.

Is there a way for me to do both at the same time.

So for example, I would like to answer a question like "For File A, I want to find all the validations that have a ValidationLevel of 2"

If not, how can I modify my model to answer this question

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General Board / Re: Creating stereotypes

« on: July 23, 2014, 10:48:30 am »

Hi,

Yes thank you. My organisation is using version 10 of EA.

Thanks for the links. I will do a little bit more research on Profiles and MDG Technologies as I'm unsure what they are.

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General Board / Creating stereotypes

« on: July 22, 2014, 02:29:01 pm »

hi,

I've noticed there's two ways to make stereotypes.

One is by going to Settings / Uml Types and creating a new one from there. However, other than specifying a base type and how it should look on a diagram, there arent a lot of options - in particular what I want to be able to do is to have a stereotype that has a default set of Tagged Values.

The other option seems to be to create a Profile package and then create a "stereotype" object from the Toolbox. Here I seem to be able to specify my Tagged Values - however, I'm unable to reference this when I add a new element. How do I get the stereotypes I've got in my profile to show up when I add a new element?

My main requirement is to be able to define classes of elements of certain types. I must be able to search against that type and also, each type should have a list of consistent tagged values.

I'm attempting to use stereotypes to do this - if I'm completely on the wrong track, please let me know.

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General Board / create custom connector types?

« on: July 22, 2014, 09:34:11 am »

Hi,

So at my work, we're trying to move some of our existing documentation into Enterprise Architect - we have a large number of systems and we would like to use EA's ability to link different elements to each other.

Due to the large number of possible relationships between elements, I would like to ask if there is a way we can create custom connectors or relationships between elements.

So in the Traceability Window, all my elements have relationships such as "links from" or "part of" or "composed of".

This window seems useful cause I can see all of the linkages for any element, but given the large number of relationships in my model, I would be a little bit more specific about these linkages. Is it possible to define my own relationships (eg. "is a Type B validation of" or "grandfathered by") so that it is grouped as such in the traceability window.

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General Board / save options in Generate Documentation?

« on: October 03, 2013, 03:57:55 pm »

Hi,

I'm currently evaluating whether EA is suitable for my team and I'm trying to find a way to consistently generate the same type of reports from EA.

I have a Package which contains a whole bunch of element type that I do not want displayed. At the moment, I can filter out these elements in the generate documentation dialog.

However, I don't want me or other BAs to have to remember these options everytime I need to generate the document for this package.

Is it possible to save these filters on my RTF template or save the options from the Generate Documentation dialog? I need to be able to save the these filter customizations at a Package or Template level.

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General Board / Re: Video demos do not work

« on: October 02, 2013, 01:58:18 pm »

it's working for me now.

not sure what that was about!

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General Board / Re: Video demos do not work

« on: October 02, 2013, 01:51:10 pm »

What browser are you using?  What version of Adobe Flash?  Perhaps try updating Flash.

i don't think it's the browser - I'm using chrome and flash (version 11,7,700,225) is enabled and i can view youtube.

maybe it's the network then... i'll try at home.

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General Board / Video demos do not work

« on: October 02, 2013, 12:55:54 pm »

Hi,

I'm trying to access some of the videos on this site in order to learn more about EA as we are considering moving our team's documentation over to EA.

However, all the videos seem not to be working.
http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/demos/traceabilitytools/traceability.htm

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General Board / Re: Multiple diagrams using same elements

« on: December 10, 2012, 03:53:58 pm »

perfect. thanks for your help.

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General Board / Re: Multiple diagrams using same elements

« on: December 10, 2012, 03:48:04 pm »

wow, can't believe i didn't see that item. It had been listed there all along.

Thanks!

PS - so is it good practice to start a new diagram within the same package using the same elements, or is it better to create a whole new package with an identical set of diagrams? Or does it not matter?

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General Board / Multiple diagrams using same elements

« on: December 10, 2012, 03:35:09 pm »

Hi,

I'm a beginner at EA so please forgive me if the question is trivial.

So at the moment, I am modifying an existing process. As I need to compare the processes side by side, I've just copy and pasted the old diagram into a new diagram on the same package.

My question is, I've noticed that whenever I add connectors to one diagram, I have to go into the other diagram and delete, then opt to hide the connector.

Is there a way I can modify relationships between elements in one diagram, and automatically not have it reflected in the old diagram?

Additionally, I would like to ask, would I be better off not reusing the elements at all , and just creating a new diagram in a new package with an identical set of elements? If so, how do I actually go about copying and pasting an entire package? I can not seem to have this feature at all.

thanks for your help.