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General Board / Re: Tagged Values in stereotypes

« on: December 04, 2007, 05:05:49 pm »

I believe I have followed the instructions to the letter. Is there anywhere I can send my EAP file for a confirmation/solution. I just checksed and I am using build 815 if that makes any difference.

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General Board / Re: Tagged Values in stereotypes (815)

« on: December 04, 2007, 02:00:13 pm »

I have created a profile as per doco (Profile file content is below) but when I import into my project I cant see the stereotype from the profile, tags, etc. All I can see is the profile listed on the RESOURCES tab.

I created the Profile in my current project (tagged values etc), exported then deleted the pacgage from the project, saved then imported the project. I wonder if the issue is the Tagged values are in both the project and the profile?

Anyway, here is my UML Profile
[code]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<UMLProfile>
<Documentation id="6F19BCEF-3" name="ONTRACKSystem" version="1.0" notes="ONTRACKSystem"/>
<!-- The profile content -->
<Content>
<!-- List of stereotypes used in this profile-->
<Stereotypes>
<Stereotype name="sysattribute" notes="" cx="" cy="" metafile="" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0">
<AppliesTo/>
<TaggedValues>
<Tag name="Abbreviations" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="Contact Data Admin" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="Contact Owner" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="Contact SME" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="Contact System Admin" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="Contact Vendor" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="Functions" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="Roadmap" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="Technologies" description="" values="" default=""/>
<Tag name="User Categories" description="" values="" default=""/>
</TaggedValues>
<Constraints/>
</Stereotype>
<Stereotype name="SystemRegister" notes="" cx="" cy="" metafile="" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0">
<AppliesTo/>
<TaggedValues>
<Tag name="isActive" description="" values="" default=""/>
</TaggedValues>
<Constraints/>
</Stereotype>
</Stereotypes>
<TaggedValueTypes>
<TaggedValueType property="Abbreviations" description="List all Abbreviations for the system"/>
<TaggedValueType property="Functions" description="List the Business Functions the system performs"/>
<TaggedValueType property="Roadmap" description="Notes regarding any known changes"/>
<TaggedValueType property="Technologies" description="What technologoes are used"/>
<TaggedValueType property="Contact Owner" description="Business Unit and Name"/>
<TaggedValueType property="Contact SME" description="Business Unit and Name"/>
<TaggedValueType property="Contact System Admin" description="Company, Business Unit and Name"/>
<TaggedValueType property="Contact Data Admin" description="Company, Business Unit and Name"/>
<TaggedValueType property="Contact Vendor" description="Company, Name, Title and contact details"/>
<TaggedValueType property="User Categories" description="Description of the User Categories"/>
</TaggedValueTypes>
</Content>
</UMLProfile>code]

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General Board / Re: Tagged Values in stereotypes (818)

« on: December 04, 2007, 12:00:43 pm »

I am having exactly the same issue. I want each component on one diagram to have about 20 tags for documentation purposes but cant seem to get EA to work as the help prescribes. I  have followed the instructions on the help page Define Stereotype Tags with Predefined Tag Types

I have:

• created the Tags
  
• Added attributes to my Stereotype sysattribute with the same name as the predefined Tag
  
• Extended the metaclass component with my Stereotype
  

Anyone that can shed some light on this problem I would geratly appreciate it.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Import DDL from file

« on: December 12, 2007, 12:49:42 pm »

I have no concerns regarding Sparx implementing this. They have implemented features to reverse engineer a database via ODBC to produce a Data Model and generate a DDL from that same data model. Generating a Data Model from a DDL is not likely to be that complex.

A Blonde might ask

Cant they just reverse the order the code for Package to DDL to make it work

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Import DDL from file

« on: December 12, 2007, 11:25:56 am »

Who will be Captain Stubing? And who will be Washington, the token minority, on that wonderful show?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Import DDL from file

« on: December 11, 2007, 06:32:05 pm »

No I didnt. How do they feel about supplementary Feature Requests?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Import DDL from file

« on: December 11, 2007, 06:13:36 pm »

I have submitted the request. It is as follows:

Presently, EA does not allow me to generate a Data Schema from a DDL, only from an ODBC source. However, I cannot use an ODBC source with a file based database such as Foxpro, CSV, Excel and TXT. On the other hand I can generate a DDL using other tools such as AQT.

Often, my role is to integrate one or more datasources from "Point Solution" applications into a single SQL database. I am often dealing with applications written using a variety of tools that may have datasources such as FoxPro, MS Access, MS Excel, CSV, TXT.

For those of us working with "Fringe" applications that may have been built in house with little data integrity, design, etc, the ability to generate a DDL from a number of sources and then import into EA would be very useful.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Import DDL from file

« on: December 11, 2007, 12:39:25 pm »

I would like this feature and used search before hitting the forums with queations.

I can provide my requirements for a feature request if required.