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General Board / Re: Landing page containing links to all root nodes in a repository

« on: January 24, 2024, 09:22:04 pm »

We generally make navigation diagrams on each level. So you can have one that lists all root nodes [...]

That's the point: I want to make a navigation diagram listing all root nodes, but I cannot find a way to create links to those root nodes. Like you said, you can only make links to diagrams.

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General Board / Landing page containing links to all root nodes in a repository

« on: January 24, 2024, 07:17:07 pm »

I work in repository that is shared by several departments. Each department has its own root node in the repository. When I open the repository, a diagram from another department is opened. This is because that particular diagram is set as the Model Diagram. This is a bit strange for all users not belonging to that particular department. Therefore, I want to create some kind of general landing page for the repository. That landing page should contain links to all root nodes in the repository. Upon selecting the link, the user should be taken to the root node in the Browser. However, I have not found a way to accomplish this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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General Board / How to use Schema Composer for a UPCC2 model

« on: October 14, 2023, 02:18:18 am »

I am struggling to find out how to use UPCC2 in Sparx EA. I have created a model using the UPCC2 Model Structure. This resulted in a model containing a number of stereotyped subpackages. In the package «BIELibrary», I have created a diagram containing several ABIE’s, using the Toolbox UPCC2 – BIELibrary Abstract Syntax. Some ABIE’s are used in other ABIE’s as ASBIE’s. Now I want to define a business document. In the package «DOCLibrary», I have created a diagram with an MA representing the name of the business document, using the Toolbox UPCC2 – DOCLibrary Abstract Syntax. I have linked the ABIE that I want to use as the root element (say ABIE001) as an ASMA to the MA.

Now I start the Schema Composer. I expected that I could drag the MA to the Classes pane, and that ABIE001 would then be shown as a child element of the MA. And I expected that, when selecting ABIE001, I would get its ASBIE’s. In short, I expected to get something like this:

MA
---ABIE001
------ABIEX
------ABIEY

However, none of this happens. I cannot drag the MA to the pane Classes. Yes, I can drag ABIE001 to the pane Classes. But in the pane Attributes, the ASBIE’s of ABIE001 are not shown under the heading Associations. It seems an ASBIE relation is somehow not interpreted as an association.

I already tried several approaches, but to no avail. Searching the internet did not provide enough clues. I hope someone reading this post can put me in the right direction. I would be very grateful for that.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How to remove imported MDG technologies?

« on: December 14, 2021, 07:43:30 am »

I tried to remove some MDG technologies by removing the files from the APPDATA-folder, but when restarting Sparx EA, the files automagically reappeared again. In the window MDG Technologies, I de-selected the Enabled check box for the MDG technologies I want to get rid of, but to no avail. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Questions about Model Glossary

« on: December 11, 2021, 08:14:36 am »

Paolo, I understand your suggestion ('The only solution for the present is to create separate entries for the different word forms with duplicated descriptions') but this does not seem to be a sound solution. I am afraid it would soon result in a maintenance nightmare.

I get the impression that using the Model Glossary would not be a good choice. Do you have any suggestions for a good alternative? I am wondering if it would possible to use SKOS in some way. Does Sparx EA support SKOS? I have not yet found any detailed information about this.

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Bugs and Issues / Questions about Model Glossary

« on: November 30, 2021, 01:43:22 am »

I am doing some experiments with setting up a Model Glossary. When I am defining a new glossary entry, I would like to specify some other versions of the entry. For example, when I am defining a noun, I would like to specify the plural form of the noun. Thus, when the plural form is specified somewhere in a description, the plural form should be recognized as a defined term, and the definition (of the singular form) should show up as a tooltip. Is it possible to accomplish this?

Somethind else: I noticed that when a term is used at the end of a sentence, i.e. when the term is immediately followed by a period, the term is not recognized as a defined term. This seems very strange to me. Is there a way to make sure that a period is not interpreted as belonging to the term? (For example, when a glossary entry has been defined for the term XYZ, and the glossary has been reloaded, the term XYZ will be underlined when it is used somewhere else, for example in the definition of another term. This works fine in most cases. But when the term XYZ is followed by a period (like '[...] XYZ.') the term XYZ is not underlined.)

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Bugs and Issues / Elements appearing twice in generated documentation

« on: January 18, 2020, 02:52:15 am »

I have used the option Publish - Document - Generate Documentation to create a model report of my model in EA. I have used all the default options. The value for template is 'Model Report'.

In the generated document, some elements appear twice. The code lists and enumerations are listed under separate headings, but also 'on their own'. Some of the classes are also repeated twice. (These repeated classes are all association classes. Perhaps that might be a clue?)

To illustrate this, here is a part of the Table of Contents.

Veilig Thuis Meldingen 3
VT-melding diagram 3
INFORMERING 3     <--- Class listed first time
SOCIALE RELATIE 5
VERANTWOORDELIJKHEID 6
BETROKKENHEID 6
informeringswijze 8
SASH niveau 9
uitkomst veiligheidsbeoordeling 9
geslachtsaanduiding 10
Jeugdzorgrol 10   <---codelist listed first time
TINSTANTIE 11
TLAND_ISO 11
CodeList 11
   Jeugdzorgrol 12   <--- codelist listed second time
   TINSTANTIE 12
   TLAND_ISO 12
Enumeratiesoort 13
   SASH niveau 13
   geslachtsaanduiding 13
   informeringswijze 14
   uitkomst veiligheidsbeoordeling 15
Adres 15
Adres binnenland 16
Adres buitenland 19
BETROKKENHEID 22
Completed Changes from last week 23
Contactgegevens 24
INFORMERING 26     <--- Class listed second time
NATUURLIJK PERSOON 28
Naam 33
ORGANISATIE 35
SOCIALE RELATIE 38
VEILIGHEIDSBEOORDELING 39
VERANTWOORDELIJKHEID 41
[...]

Does anyone know why the elements are repeated?

Ewout

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General Board / Re: Exporting a model to HTML

« on: August 26, 2015, 07:31:25 pm »

Uffe and Simon M, thank you both for your replies. I have found some valuable information in your answers to my questions!

Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that the image in the XMI format is just a bitmap with no reference to the elements it contains, so I don't think you could get a useful HTML page (with clickable elements) from an XMI file.

When the option Generate Diagram Images is selected in the window Publish Model Package, an image is generated (of type .emf, by the way), and the XMI-file contains information about all elements in the diagram, in the form of <element> tags with an attribute geometry. Thus, there actually is a reference to the elements in the image.

We now plan to apply an XSLT-transformation to the XMI-file, which should result in an HTML-file. This method should give us all options to finetune the result. (It will require some more investigation, but that should be fun!)

Thanks again!

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General Board / Exporting a model to HTML

« on: August 18, 2015, 11:09:24 pm »

We have created a model in Enterprise Architect, consisting of a diagram and metadata for all classes in the diagram. When a class in the diagram is clicked, the metadata is shown. Now we want to find a method to display the model in a web page. The web page should show the diagram, and the classes in the diagram should be clickable. Thus, when a class is clicked, the metadata for the class should be shown, just like in Enterprise Architect itself. Furthermore, the metadata for each class should be accessible independently, i.e. each class should have its own HTML-page. This is to make sure that the metadata can be directly referenced from other pages and applications.

The standard HTML-export of Enterprise Architect fulfills these requirements, except for the last. When a class in the diagram is clicked (or when a class is selected in the frame on the left side of the generated web page), then the metadata is displayed ‘within the page itself’. The URL does not change, it stays like […] \index.htm. We would like to have a URL like […]\class-name.htm.

We have done some experiments with publishing to XMI. However, we have not (yet) found a way to get a clickable image. And we also don’t know how to translate the XMI-file to a set of HTML-documents. We think that is should probably be possible to find some kind of ‘XMI-viewer’ somewhere. But then again, perhaps XMI isn’t the way to go for us. There might be better solutions available.

Does anyone in the Enterprise Architect community have some suggestions on how to proceed? We would be very grateful for that!