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General Board / Re: Hide all links (lines) of a specific type

« on: September 12, 2008, 10:54:43 pm »

Hi Lammert,

You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctr-Shift-i to set the visibility of all relations in a diagram. All relations are shown in one window and you can just tick the checkboxes of the relations you want to hide.

Although it's not a one-click solution, it's still a lot quicker.

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Bugs and Issues / Custom reference to diagram not shown in hierarchy

« on: February 19, 2009, 01:22:58 am »

It is possible to add a custom reference from an activity to an activity diagram (in the project browser). Unfortunately, this relationship is not shown in the Hierarchy view. Other custom references from for instance an activity to another activity, are shown. :-/

Does anyone know why the reference to a diagram is not shown in the Hierarchy view and what other options I have (other than making the activity a composite element)?

Kind regards,

Coen.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Show icon if notes are filled

« on: October 28, 2008, 01:41:20 am »

In some diagrams we had quite a few notes which I've moved to the notes property of the elements concerned. This made the diagrams much easier to read and useable in presentations, etc... Now I would like to see on the diagram if there are notes added to an element, for instance by showing a pencil icon in the element like a stereotype. This pencil icon should only be shown when the notes are filled. When the notes are cleared, the pencil icon should disappear.

Is it possible to create a feature like this?

Kind regards,

Coen.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: External Interface to EA using custom URL's

« on: September 08, 2008, 07:31:15 am »

Hi Eric,

That's good news!
I'll send a request for the beta.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: External Interface to EA using custom URL's

« on: September 08, 2008, 05:31:58 am »

Eric,

That's good news. If you have a good and reasonably priced solution, than I'm interested off course. Any idea when the beta gets released and when the final product is planned?

I've also send a mail to the info@canoniccorp to stay informed.

Regards,
Coen.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: External Interface to EA using custom URL's

« on: September 05, 2008, 11:00:21 pm »

Thnx Simon for your reply.
I wasn't aware of this Save as Shortcut option and it sure can be handy sometimes. However it doesn't fulfill all my requirements, so I've asked my software engineer colleagues to look into my request, unless off course Sparx thinks it's a good idea and consider this a new feature  

The products that we will create are:
- an executable to interpret the URL and handle the interface with EA
- an installation script to install the executable and create the custom URL reference in the registry
- an Add Inn for EA to construct the URL of a selected element/diagram and copy it to the clipboard

Is there a possiblity to add the 'Copy URL' AddInn under the context menu (right mouse click?).

Regards,

Coen.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / External Interface to EA using custom URL's

« on: September 05, 2008, 01:05:39 am »

I'm thinking of creating a custom URL to EA-elements and create a small application using the EA Automation Interface that can interpret the URL, start EA (if not started yet) and open the requested diagram in the URL.

I picked up this idea from DOORS. Since DOORS 8.? you can copy an URL from a requirement in DOORS and paste it in any application.
An example of a DOORS requirement URL is:
doors://MyServer:<portnumber>/?version=1,prodID=0,dbid=4180f34821e41e1a,container=00002d40,object=128,view=00000001

The EA URL for an element or diagram could be something like: ea://<connection string/?project=..., diagram=..., element=....

In the registry you can add the custom URL 'ea' and point it to for instance "c:\MyEaInterface.exe"

MyEaInterface.exe will then start EA (if not started yet) and open the diagram.

In EA I need to create something so you can easily compose and copy the URL of the current element or diagram to the clipboard. Is it possible to add an item 'Copy URL' under the right mouse-click?

The advantage of this solution is that you can add URL's to EA-elements in any application, for instance DOORS and MS/Word.

I'm not really a software engineer so any help on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Thnx,

Coen.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / EA - DOORS interface

« on: July 22, 2008, 01:13:06 am »

In my opinion the MDG DOORS-interface is too limited.
I have the following requirements:
- The interface should support to connect a DOORS-requirement to one or more EA-element (from DOORS to EA)
- If there is a connection between a DOORS-requirement and a EA-element it should be visible in some way in both DOORS and EA
- It must be possible to jump from EA to DOORS if there is a link and viceversa.
- It must be possible to synchronize DOORS and EA.

As I saw a few posts on the DOORS-EA subject I was wondering if one of you has had the same requirements and found or made solution for this.

Thnx,

Coen.