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General Board / Re: Sequence Diagram - New Lifeline will die -_-

« on: December 14, 2013, 12:44:10 am »

Thx very much.

Just sad that I have to re-create my diagram.
When Inserting new lines they were inserted at the wrong point. Thats because when still having any event (at any liftime) which appear later in time (on lifeline). Just when deleteing all other events it will be drawn correctly.
I guess this is a bug.
Still recreated, so dont need further support, just to notice.

http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3470/q6a56ipn_png.htm
http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/3470/v2rcbvx7_png.htm
http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3470/tqap93d5_png.htm

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General Board / Sequence Diagram - New Lifeline will die -_-

« on: December 13, 2013, 12:31:55 am »

Hello,

I have a visual problem with sequence diagrams.
When creating a new lifeline the new one starts not at bottom but at a height were the create-call happens (thats correct and nice).

The problem then is, the new element will have a R.I.P.-date (a cross is shown at the end of line and the lins usually is much shorter than the lines of other lifeline-objects.
I did not call a delete-call!

Well, I want to make disappear the cross and gain endless life for the created object.
Although I made an asynchroniously create-call it will die after its last action.

Have a look at this picture, it demonstrates the death of new created objects.


Can anyone help? Thx.

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General Board / Re: Different Streams (Model) - Versioning?

« on: December 07, 2013, 12:15:59 am »

well maybe Baseline Comparison istnt that bad I thought but still makes trouble.
When placing different version into different EAs, then all Elements keep their GUID.
Create new version: export current model to xmi, import it into a new eap

Merge changes of previous version into new one:
export previous version to xmi and then do baseline comparison with new version.
It niceley shows me differences (new, changed, deleted).
When right-clicking on a change or use button above of that tool-window "merge to model      merge change from baseline to model"
and on right click its named with "merge from baseline     "
i guess as baseline the compared xmi is meant while model is my current opened model.
The first question were: what would this option do?
the second question: why does it nothing on click??

in my case I changed the note-text of a package
originally (model) it was "Hello"
in the prevoius model (xmi file now) it was changed to "out"
I would expect somthing like "Hello out", out Hello or overwrite the model "Hello" with "out"

It doesnt have any effect.

The other ways (delete or add to model are functioning well)

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General Board / Re: Different Streams (Model) - Versioning?

« on: December 06, 2013, 07:17:30 pm »

thanks, I was afraid of this
I am still trying with Baseline Comparison but I need it for more than one model...

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General Board / Different Streams (Model) - Versioning?

« on: December 06, 2013, 01:15:59 am »

Hi,

I have an EA repository where I want to store/ display a datamodel. This datamodel changes from time to time. For each version I create a own model, because there are different developers working on different versions. Due to the development activities there are more than one version being valid at the same time.

A problem occurs when there are eg two versions A and B while B was created as duplicate from B. Both will be developed. Changes in A must be merged into B but with considering conflicts (is some feature in A is changed while in B it still has been deleted, then it should not re-created in B).

Having a model with simple versioning will result in having only one final/ valid revision. Theres no considering of development streams.

I am now looking for a way/ tool/ process to manage this. I heard about some keywords like audit or package versioning but I did not found a way I am looking for.

It would be grateful if someone knows something (useful)
Thanks in advance.

Edit: If there arent any "full automated" tools available, other tools which supports are also welcome. EG a tool which shows me the difference between two given packages (but different models) were a great step forward. Because if there aren any tools, the developer has to do it manually and some supporting tools would then be veryhelpful.

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General Board / Re: Manage Tabulation-Data within EA

« on: December 06, 2013, 12:48:48 am »

hey guys
thanks for your replies.

I will test some and then see whether to use or not.

"the embedded OLE objects cannot be displayed directly in a diagram (you must open the linked document first) and you can't access them through the API."

Do you mean linked Doucuments are not accessible through API at all or was you just referring to OLE objects?

If not it then just is accessible through direct databasse query on the repository (t_document Contents of linked documents, baselines and
more from google-> "Inside Enterprise Architect - Leanpub" (link too long)). Else I cannot find any information to that, do you have something to quote from?

Thanks.

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General Board / Manage Tabulation-Data within EA

« on: December 02, 2013, 10:46:00 pm »

Hello,

we likely use EA to store not only UML Data. We also store plain text in notes and keep a document structure through packaging in the project browser. We then use an Add-In to generate a complete documentation of the EA-Model into Word.
Due to this we come accross with further Elements where it is difficult to represent them in EA.

My biggeest current problem is the question after how to get tabulation data (means Excel-Sheets, CSV, tables within word-documents) into EA.

Using object diagrams is not a good way because I would create an object for each row which is pretty too much and which is not efficiently displayable.

I thought of using linked documents (RTF) but the editor has no table designer. I am able to paste a table there but this way I dont get an advantage against en excel sheet.

When adding a table in a note field somthing like the following appears which is not useful at all.
--> ----------------------------------dsdfdsfsdf------------------------------
-->-----------------------------------ROW BREAK--------------------------
-->....

Later (dont know when) it is converted into HTML, but I dont want HTML

Well what do I want: I am looking for a kind of a diagram which has an Excel Inline Integration or something equal.
It its important to have functionality to easily edit and manage the sheet. It does not need to have that much functionality like in excel.

Whats my hope in this forum: You can suggest some features and functionalities which you think could be what I am looking for. I will have a look. Maybe someone knows a representation I did not consider yet.

If there wont be any efficient representation I need to make a placeholder where the external excel-sheet needs to be inserted when exporting EA data. But ou aim is to keep all data within one single application (in case of eg documentations, not all business).

Thanks in Advance.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Change/Set the objectID

« on: April 15, 2015, 09:26:42 pm »

...

thanks for answer, and I understand, but I did not invented our code I am just the one who has to maintain it.
Thats why I now am looking for an "un-sane" way.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Change/Set the objectID

« on: April 15, 2015, 09:23:33 pm »

3) create new class wih new object ID
do an insert into by selecting the last inserted row BUT (and thats my problem I dont have a solution for) edit the object_id before inserting

doing insert with a self-defined value for tha autonumber column is possible, its just not updatable but creatable.


edit:
tried the following sucessfully, so that currently my preferred way:
- create all classes as "usual"
- identify the classes and run for every the following sqls:
  - INSERT INTO t_object SELECT '123456' as object_id, field1, field2, ..., '{AAAA-1111-2222-...} as ea_guid, fieldn FROM t_object WHERE object_id = 234567;
 - delete from t_object where object_id = 234567;

What I do not know is, whether there are some triggers which will notice that and will do something in other tables.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Change/Set the objectID

« on: April 15, 2015, 08:42:03 pm »

so did I understand it right, that the object ID is not editable since it relates to an autonumber field in acess database and witihin microsoft access editing cells of an autonumbercolumns is not possible at no chance?

two thoughts then:
1) what if I transform my EAP to a repository, commonly mysql is used then, there it may would work, and then re-transform my EAP back to a local EAP. would this work?

2) could it be possible to edit the start value of that autonumber field before inserting a new class?

eg. I want to recreate a class with old object_id 12345.
I delete the old class, set the start-value of the autonumber field to 12345 and insert the new class.

I redo this for every class to recreate. Next time I may then set auto number start value to a lower value than 12345, later to a higher one.
At the very end I set the auto value to the old last maximum + 1.

Would this function or dont I have enought privileges to do that?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Change/Set the objectID

« on: April 10, 2015, 10:45:26 pm »

Hello,

we have a classmodel and do something with automation on it. We are using the objectIds to do some hard code (its no option to change this way of work).

Sometimes we are going to update the classmodel by an external file (new classes/ attributes, some will go, most times any datatype or column changes). To be clean we are deleting the old class and create a completely new one. Due to new creation the objectID of that class changes. Its assigned by EA.

I am looking for a way to keep the old objectID for that class, so that our hard code will function in future.

The alternative ist to update the existing class. Thats a kind of dirty. We need then to make a full check for any difference between the old and the new class. If we would simply just change or add the data from the new class in the old one, then changes like removed data in the new class will be missing (e.g. a method has been deleted, the new class would still contain the method).

Thanks for any help.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Stereotype empty in EA10 when creating objects

« on: November 13, 2014, 09:52:34 pm »

Hi,

I want to create objectinstances of classes via drag&drop from Project Browser into a diagram.

It then creates a object of that class. Fine.

The problem is, that the attributes stereotype and stereotypeEx are empty "".
The stereotype and stereotypeEx of the class are not empty.

I am Using EA 10.0.1005.

When my collegue is doing exactly the same on a copy of the EAP file stereotype and stereotypeEx of the instanciated object are equal to the stereotype and stereotypeEx of the class where the object is instanciated from.
My collegue is using EA 9.1.910

I would expect that this is a Bug.
Thats why I also did a Bug report.

But maybe someone knows any workaround or somthing else for this.

Thanks in advance.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: What is MenuLocation in Add-Ins Event-Methods

« on: October 31, 2014, 11:26:08 pm »

Allright, so the conclusion ist that
- its a bug
- EA documentation is not the best here
- EA forum search is not very practicable

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: What is MenuLocation in Add-Ins Event-Methods

« on: October 31, 2014, 09:40:50 pm »

Well thank you very much.

Ok now I know that search only is looking for posts created a week ago. I need to switch it manally to "all". I never met such a "uncommon" defaulsetting for a forum search.
So quick-search is not usable for such searches, but goog to know.

Well I then do not ever try any possible word familiy like "menu Location"....

Sorry for frustrating you, I think did my best.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: What is MenuLocation in Add-Ins Event-Methods

« on: October 31, 2014, 12:05:57 am »

I did but no results (now my post is a result).
I searched in EA Search and forum search before opening this thread.