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Suggestions and Requests / Re: EA performance concerns - with WAN users

« on: July 10, 2006, 07:10:28 am »

I'm really hoping they can fix it in the next month's build..... as I have no workarounds.

Cheers,
David.

Dave,

A workaround could be to use EA via Terminal Services. That's what I do all the time because indeed, connecting via the Internet, even with high speed broadband, is not manageable for large models. With a model with 1200 elements (still growing), it opens immediately via TS, while it takes a couple minutes over the WAN.

When you consider the day to day work, it's even worse in terms of lost productivity, because opening a diagram and most importantly, updating it, takes way too long over the WAN.

Hope this helps.

Gilles

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General Board / Controlling diagram size in RTF Docs

« on: July 03, 2005, 11:48:37 am »

The diagram pictures (metafile format) embedded in my RTF documentation are too small and basically not readable, unless I resize them one by one. Obviously this is not an acceptable process!

Is there any way to specify a larger size for these embedded graphics or to force them to use the whole page width?

Thanks

Gilles

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General Board / Re: MDG Link for VS 2005 with SQL Server 2K Reposi

« on: January 20, 2006, 08:03:55 am »

Just type the name of a file, then click Save. You will be presented with the "Data Link Properties" dialog, where you can start configuring the connection to the remote repository.

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General Board / Re: MDG Link for VS 2005 with SQL Server 2K Reposi

« on: November 17, 2005, 04:43:11 am »

Figured it out.

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General Board / MDG Link for VS 2005 with SQL Server 2K Repository

« on: November 16, 2005, 08:51:09 pm »

When I choose to attach my UML model via "Connect to a server repository", I get a File Open dialog instead of the dialog to create the connection to the SQL server database. Is that a bug in MDG or am I missing something in the process?
Gilles

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General Board / Can't resize a package icon

« on: October 11, 2004, 10:02:39 am »

I created an Activity diagram in the Formal Requirements section of my model, representing the user interface flow of my web application. The application has 3 pages, and the flow for each page is contained in a separate sub-package.

When I drag and drop the package of the pages on the activity diagram, I cannot reduce its size beyond the space needed to display all public elements of the package. This occurs even if I hide all elements (public and others).

Is this normal behavior or should I be able to reduce the size of the package?

Thanks for any input you can provide on this issue.

Gilles

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General Board / UML Patterns?

« on: November 29, 2002, 06:54:08 pm »

Hello,

I have desesperately tried to find the XML file containing the UML pattern resources but to no avail. Currently, EA displays an empty UML Pattern folder in the Resource View. Where can I get these pattern definitions?

Thanks

Gilles

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General Board / Import VB.NET Source Code: Enumerations

« on: December 02, 2002, 08:22:39 pm »

Hello,

I started playing with importing source code from prior VB.NET projects and I am wondering where the specified value of an enumerated element is stored in EA. Example:

Public Enum FolderPermissions
 Read = 1
 Write = 2
 Delete = 3
End Enum

When importing this enumeration, EA creates a class with a stereotype of "enumeration". Each enumerated element is an attribute of the class. But the values (integers in my example above) of these elements do not show in the "Initial" field of the dialog.

Furthermore, I was expecting to see these attributes declared as "Const", but this is not the case.

Is EA doing the wrong thing or do I have wrong expectations?

Thanks for any clarification you might be able to bring...

Gilles

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General Board / Importing an external image in a diagram?

« on: December 01, 2002, 08:54:42 pm »

Hello,

Is it possible to import a picture into a diagram? I would like to embed my client's logo into one of my diagram to make it look nicer!  

Gilles

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General Board / Re: Default Initial Position of New Objects

« on: November 28, 2002, 11:47:55 am »

Thanks Frank. I can't believe I did not even think about the drag-and-drop approach... Shame on me!  

I agree with you about abandonning the click feature as it is implemented today. Actually, I think its behavior should be dramatically changed: when clicking in the outlook bar to pick an object, we should get a special cursor mode with a shadowed or outlined object. Then by clicking anywhere in the work area, the object would be positionned automatically where we click, at the exact place where the shadow or outline is when we click.

This would satisfy users who do not like to drag-and-drop, but who want to position quickly their object at the right place. Those preferring drag-and-drop can still use that feature, so they would not be penalized...

Hope Geoffrey will modify EA with such a great feature...

Gilles

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General Board / Default Initial Position of New Objects

« on: November 28, 2002, 08:00:27 am »

Hello,

When adding an object to a diagram, the object is positionned in the top left corner of the page. This is fine on small diagram where everything can be displayed within the working area. However, on large diagram where working with the zoom is required, this default positioning is really a pain: I need to scroll all the way back to the top left corner to pick my newly created object and move it back, scrolling again, to where it is supposed to appear.

Is there any way to change this behaviour so that a newly created object appears in the top left corner of the displayed area (instead of the top left corner of the entire page), taking into account my current scrolled position and zoom factor?

Thanks to let me know!

Gilles

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General Board / Display a default view in the HTML Doc?

« on: November 28, 2002, 08:05:33 pm »

Hello,

Is there any way to specify that a specific diagram should be displayed by default when accessing the index.htm page of the HTML documentation?

I am of course looking at a solution that will not require a manual modification of the generated HTML...

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Gilles