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Suggestions and Requests / Re: EA beta1 impressions

« on: August 16, 2006, 08:50:02 am »

So far, so good!

I've been using EA for almost a year now.
As for the beta version, it has been a couple of days now!

The beta version actually fixes lots of sketchy behaviors and some "weaknesses" of the current 6.1 version.

The first thing that i'm really happy with (even though some changes still need to be done, in my opinion) is the new HTML Documentation. (We are currently working on a web-based software, so using html documentation has come in handy!)
It is really a good thing to see the actual structure of your EA project into the HTML. Thanks to the javascript tree! Now, everybody in the team can browse through it easily. There is one thing that should be fixed, if possible, in the HTML generation : hyperlinks that are linked to external files don't link to the actual external file. They link to their actual description of the element. My suggestion, the little icon should link to the actual description of the "element" and the underlined text should point to the file.

I'm actually testing the sequence diagrams and i'll come back to you guys with more comments on this one. So far, it has better behavior between element and is more easy to use. I still need to dig into it though!

Again, so far, so good!

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General Board / Re: Screens in EA

« on: August 16, 2006, 09:06:17 am »

well, well

I had run into this problem too.

You can create a "custom diagram" and put your screen "template" there. When it is done, you can drag and drop your diagram into another custom diagram, as a "diagram frame". Now you can start placing element "on" the diagram frame. But you know, it is a little sketchy and you can't do much since you're working on a frame which represent the actual look of the template at this very moment. So it might be hard to maintain.

My personal solution? I copy and paste everything. Easier, take less times, and the maintenance is "ok" since i don't have to maintain 10000000 screens but about 200-300.

There is some improvment to do with this functionnality, that is for sure!

Anyway, i hope it helps.

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General Board / Re: Trouble with fragments in sequence diagrams

« on: July 27, 2006, 11:04:40 am »

I, too, find it pretty hard to deal with sequence diagrams in EA. Nevertheless, i might have some tip for you to make it "easier" to deal with fragments.

When you want to move a fragment without killing all of your good work, hold the alt key while dragging the fragment. When you'll drop the fragment, it won't mess everything up.

If there is already some links or association in your fragment while moving it willing holding alt, they wont budge from their original location.

If you drop the fragment with alt on some associations or links, those will become "attached" to the fragment.

I hope those tips will help you "work around" your problem.