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General Board / Re: Refresh project

« on: March 23, 2012, 10:56:36 pm »

Sometimes it’s the obvious that gets you. Much appreciated!

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General Board / Refresh project

« on: March 23, 2012, 06:14:46 am »

Is there a way to refresh the project from the UI without closing the project and then re-opening.

EG: I am using a db based EA project, and have several BA's working. I am finding that we have to close and re-open the project to see changes by one of the other members of the team. I have searched the UI and cannot find such a thing..... Or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks
Gord

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Bugs and Issues / Character conversion

« on: June 06, 2012, 02:51:45 am »

Is there a way on Sparx to turn off the conversion of characters to HTML encoded?

Example: When I save a Ampersand (&) the character is convererted in the database/project into &.

Is it possible or is there an option to turn this off? (This could would also apply to being able to turn off RTF (Rich Text Format)?

Thanks
Gord

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Active Directory security

« on: April 24, 2012, 09:39:00 pm »

Mea culpa. Or... Read the manual. To use AD in the project you must use the Import button, and not create the users. (I was not importing the users.)

Notes:
Menu: Project/Security/Manage Users..
Button: Import Users (On the Manage Users Screen)
This brings up the import screen for AD users..


Help Item: Import User IDs From Active Directory

Thanks to the Sparx help desk....

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Active Directory security

« on: April 23, 2012, 10:05:57 pm »

So really, the AD integration does almost nothing.... It really does not even do the initial logon, as even if you are not the AD user, EA lets you into the project as the user.....

I will have to maintain (seperate) EA passwords for all my AD accounts...

I will post it to improvements/request for enhancement....

Thanks
Gord

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Bugs and Issues / Active Directory security

« on: April 23, 2012, 09:42:20 pm »

I am using Active Directory (AD) for security. I have found that as long as a user logs in to EA Sparx with the correct format in AD (Eg: John.Smith), a password is not needed. If the John.Smith account has edit rights on the project, then the user who logged in as John.Smith will have edit rights. If audit is on, then the correct AD user name is however recorded in the Audit history.... (Example, the real user is Jane.Doe).

Note: I have not added passwords to Sparx as I do not want to maintain them. I figure thats what AD is for.....

Do I have to add passwords to all the AD acounts. Tell me this is not so!

Environment: Windows Vista 32 bit
Other: Model backend is on SQL Server 2008 R2 64 bit.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Baseline Limits

« on: January 26, 2012, 05:48:27 am »

I mean 90,000 classes (requirements...) which I am trying to baseline.... The size is difficult to judge as the project back-end is in SQL server...

Where do I uncheck the single transaction option?

Thanks
Gord

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Bugs and Issues / Baseline Limits

« on: January 26, 2012, 02:37:28 am »

I am working with a model with about 90K elements. When I try to baseline the project I receive an OLE db error/Out of memory.

Is there a limit, suggestion for a limit, etc for the baselining feature?
-Back-end is in SQL Server 2008
Note: I know I can just export sections of the model, but was hoping to do the entire thing at once.

Thanks
Gord

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Updates to an Element are SLOW using API

« on: September 14, 2012, 03:37:32 am »

Geert;

Thanks for the tips. I did need the update statement, but I changed the location to .Update after doing several .AddNew statements.....
IE: Add 20 new elements, and then do the update....

(As a note, I am using a new SQL schema....)

Thanks again
Gord

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Updates to an Element are SLOW using API

« on: September 13, 2012, 03:27:14 am »

Description of issue:
Update to the Element package is taking a long time when adding a new element.
Notes: We have about 20,000 elements in the package, and I am adding one new it takes from 40 to 60 seconds....

Code Sample:

Dim eaElementPackage As ea.Package
'Snip/Bunch of code....
Set eaElement = eaElementPackage.Elements.AddNew (sNextTageNum, oRQReqType.RQReqType)

eaElementPackage.Update     '--(This is about 40 to 50 seconds.....)

'End code sample

Is there any indexes I can add to the database to speed this up? (Database: SQL Server 2008) Any alternatives?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: TFS 2010 Sync

« on: June 13, 2012, 09:27:44 pm »

Just FYI...
I am running on 32 bit Vista.....
So it might be the 64 bit...

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: TFS 2010 Sync

« on: June 07, 2012, 10:02:28 pm »

Reply for Kwikman.....

Configuration: EA Ver. 9.2 (Build 922)
Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 & TFS 2010 with SP1
Project stored in SQL Server 2008.
EA source control off(IE: We are not using EA under source control.....)

Followed all the steps in EA Visual Studio integration guide.
http://www.sparxsystems.com/bin/MDGIntegrationVS4.pdf
Goal: Sync all the Requirements in EA to TFS as Work Items of type "Requirement.

Once the EA project can be seen in Visual Studio/TFS, right click on the YOUR_EA_Proj.EAP file and select "View in UML" (The one with the EA Icon.....)

You should get the EA Project Explorer window in Visual Studio/TFS.

Right click on any item in the EA Project Explorer window, and select Team Foundation Server/Work Item View.

An EA Work Item view should then appear in Visual Studio. If NO work item appears, and the EA Work Item window is blank, look for the Property icon in the EA Work Item window, click on it and insure that a Team system Project is selected...

This is working for our team. The issue for us is we can edit and save the information in Visual Studio/TFS, but once you linked an EA project to Visual Studio/TFS, all changes made in EA will be overwritten with changes made in Visual Studio/TFS....

Hope this helps...
Gord

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / TFS 2010 Sync

« on: June 05, 2012, 03:01:11 am »

Now I have TFS and EA Sparx "Talking" (Connected via MDG Integration)
-I have linked Work Items (Type = Requirement in TFS) to some EA Requirements.
-I can "see" the Requirements in EA.
-If I update the work item in TFS, the Work Item (Requirement) gets updated in the sparks project.
-If I update the requirement in EA, the update is overwritten next time I sync with TFS.

Question: Is there a way to update the information in EA, and have the info in TFS change? (Bi-directional sync)
(Field used: TFS Field = Description, EA Field: Notes
Also applies to the Title.....)

Thanks
Gord

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Connect to TFS

« on: June 04, 2012, 11:05:03 pm »

Found it...
Select a work item in the EA Project Explorer in TFS.
Open a work item.
(Right click on the Work item in EA Project Explorer/Team Foundation Server/Work item View)

Once the work item is selected, select the properties on the work item...

Insure the Team System Project is selected, and has a default..

Updates for Work Items only seem to work from TFS to EA.... (I am having a hard time updating Work Items from EA.)

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Connect to TFS

« on: June 04, 2012, 10:41:18 pm »

I am trying to do MDG Integration with TFS 2010 to sync work items...
I seem to be missing something....
I have imported the work items into TFS, but now they will not sync. I keep getting the message:
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TFS Not Connected
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You must be connected to TFS before using this function
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OK  
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I cannot find how to connect EA back to TFS...

Any help is appreciated. I keep re-reading the documentation but seem to be going in circles.....