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General Board / Re: defining element colors with templates

« on: September 28, 2013, 04:34:25 am »

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What am I missing?

To answer my own question; you need to add elements using the Toolbox not the Project Browser (with thanks to Simon at sparx support).

Hope this helps someone.

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General Board / defining element colors with templates

« on: September 25, 2013, 06:10:22 pm »

I am having difficultly using a Project Template Package to define the default colors of elements. I am trying so alter the default colors of elements from the Archimate2 toolset in EA10. Does the method described in http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/9.0/modeling_basics/using_element_templates.html work for non-UML stereotypes?

I create a template package and then a diagram containing my element types and the colors I want to them to appear, then select the package using "Settings|Project Template Package...".

I close then re-open EA10, create a new diagram of the same type as the diagram in the template package, add a new element of the same type as the element in the template diagram but the color of the new element is the usual EA color rather than the color I set in the template.

Can the EA Template method be used for non-UML element colors? (the linked page above just seems to talk about UML elements). What am I missing?  

thanks
Robert