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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SQL to count diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages...

« on: February 14, 2018, 02:26:12 am »

Thanks but I don't understand - a bit too terse for me.

a) You said Package_ID is Int, implying drop the tick marks, but I as I said I tried both with and without tick marks and it made no difference, so how/why does the string/int issue affect the repository.SQLQuery but not the scratchpad?

b) You said I need a GROUP BY...
    i) I only want a single number, the count, not the Count and Object_ID that you added, in which case GROUP BY seems redundant How should adding Object_ID to the select help?
   ii) The query was perfectly OK exactly as quoted in the scatchpad so again, GROUP BY is redundant - at least in the scratchpad. If it is needed for repository.SQLQuery can you say why?

Hence the question: why is ok in the scratchPad but not via repository.SQLQuery?

What am I missing here?

J

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SQL to count diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages...

« on: February 13, 2018, 11:21:23 pm »

I've developed Geert's code to provide a string of Package_ID's suitable for SQL and I have the query string...

Code: [Select]

SELECT COUNT(Object_ID) FROM t_diagramobjects INNER JOIN t_diagram ON t_diagramobjects.Diagram_ID = t_diagram.Diagram_ID WHERE t_diagram.Package_ID IN ('3982','4482','7922','4483','6882','6722','7062','7103')
However, whilst this works from the SQL scratchpad, returning the same answer as obtained with (#Branch#) in the IN clause, if I actually use that string with repository.SQLQuery I get (via Session.output

Code: [Select]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<EADATA version="1.0" exporter="Enterprise Architect">
<Dataset_0><Data><Row/></Data></Dataset_0></EADATA>

and EA complains...

Error:
Code = 0x0
Source = Line : 0; Char : 0
Error description = (null)

NB Removing the tick marks around the numbers in the IN clause gives the same results

Anyone have any idea why this is not working?

J

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SQL to count diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages...

« on: February 13, 2018, 08:07:27 pm »

Now when using SQL searches you can use the macro #Branch# to get all package ID's of the currently selected package and all nested packages. Because that macro can't be used in scripting I'm making the package ID string myself.

I found the answer in Geert's post above; I'll try to follow his approach...

Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SQL to count diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages...

« on: February 13, 2018, 07:14:02 pm »

OK, I've wrapped the query in a script to use Repository.SQLQuery

But I think EA is objecting to (#Branch#) [actually failing on the #] in the sql text...

Can (#Branch#) be used in a direct query to Repository.SQLQuery or only from the front end?

Thx, Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SQL to count diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages...

« on: February 13, 2018, 02:30:50 am »

Hmmm.... This actually seems to work, on the basis that it went up by 1 when I added an object to one diagram

Code: [Select]

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM t_diagramobjects
INNER JOIN t_diagram ON t_diagramobjects.Diagram_ID = t_diagram.Diagram_ID
WHERE t_diagram.Package_ID IN (SELECT Package_ID from t_package where Package_ID in (#Branch#))
So, final question is: how do I reference (#Branch#) from e.g. the GUID of a specific package so I don't  have to select it in the browser?

Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SQL to count diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages...

« on: February 12, 2018, 11:51:19 pm »

@qwerty said "not in the scratchpad" - in fact that's where it does work

Next steps?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SQL to count diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages...

« on: February 12, 2018, 11:45:16 pm »

Referring to the user guide http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/13.0/model_navigation/creating_filters.html

I selected my chosen root package in the project browser and entered

Code: [Select]

SELECT * from t_package where package_id in (#Branch#) in the <search term> box and ran the query by clicking the "play" type button (with no tooltip)

Nothing happened. Repeated in front of witnesses, tried adding ";" at the end, and capitalising as

Code: [Select]

SELECT * FROM t_package WHERE Package_ID IN  (#Branch#)
Still nothing

And even if I get that part working from a follow-up answer, what do I do next? 

Sorry for being such a plodder...

Thanks

Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / SQL to count diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages...

« on: February 12, 2018, 10:10:32 pm »

I don't do SQL so this is hard

I would like to count all the diagram objects on all diagrams in all sub-packages of a specified root package.

I think it should be simple  - I tried building up from "... FROM t_package START WITH ea_guid = '{AF3FBF07-CEC4-49f4-8E84-D2CCB146B4BA}' " but then ran out of steam as CONNECT BY Parent_ID = Package_ID just gives me my root package.

Ignorance is not bliss... all assistance gratefully received!

Thx, Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Script Prompt Position

« on: July 31, 2017, 07:41:11 pm »

I also had problems with Session.Prompt placing the box in odd places and now use vbscript inputbox for the reason Geert gave.

Just once thing... have you checked the parameter list? I have a vague recollection that one of my early errors was passing too many parameters thinking it worked like InputBox and the invalid parameters were indirectly causing bad placement.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: ShapeScript for BPMN2.0::Activity?

« on: July 26, 2017, 11:40:54 pm »

Just to round things off, I accomplished my objective by a very heavy handed hack...

Script to allow user to add/edit TaggedValues on a BPMN2.0::Activity also creates/updates (edge mounted) ObjectNodes whose name is set to the TaggeValue value and presentation is controlled by a ShapeScript for the ObjectNode based on a custom stereotype.

One nice feature of this is that the Collapse Embedded Elements option on diagrams hides all this extra info if it's not required.

I do look forward to a better way of doing such things though.

Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: ShapeScript for BPMN2.0::Activity?

« on: July 24, 2017, 06:20:50 pm »

@Simon

You mean EA will ignore the explicit XML dt tag with a formally recognised schema datatype of string and try to b64 decode and decompress anyway??? Surely EA is interested in the value and not the encoding...?

I hope we have our wires crossed because I have a hard time making sense of that

Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Anyone offer an add-in that does this: get parent properties?

« on: July 24, 2017, 06:14:40 pm »

@qwerty "anyone offer..." was more of a "Does anyone have an existing...": why reinvent the wheel?

@Helmut - thank you very much; I've passed all the information to a colleague who has a development environment...

And yes to, "If I have understood you right you want to visualize a tagged value of a parent element with an Add-In used by a shape script." One can't use shapescripts on BPMN2.0 elements, but my placeholder objecnodes will not be BPMN2.0 (they'll have a custom stereotype just to trigger the shapescript to call the function to display the returned value)

Thanks for the input everyone,

Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Anyone offer an add-in that does this: get parent properties?

« on: July 20, 2017, 05:56:28 pm »

Because I am hoping for a compiled add-in that I just, "add in". That is how it works, isn't it?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Anyone offer an add-in that does this: get parent properties?

« on: July 20, 2017, 04:39:37 pm »

Hi Helmut

Thanks for the support...

A shapescript can print values of things such as #NAME# of the element to which the script applies. Shapescripts can also make use of add-in calls.

This old forum post gives examples of coding and calling http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1326759082/1#1 and I'd do it myself but I don't have a dev. environment.

What I would like to get from an add-in call in a shapescript for an embedded element such as an objectNode is the value of a named taggedvalue of the parent element (obviously a general purpose getter that did properties as well would be v. useful, but I'm primarily interested in taggedvalues).

Please let me know if any further clarification is required.

Julian

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Script diagram "collapse embedded elements"?

« on: July 20, 2017, 04:29:53 pm »

@KP  I just found that while waiting for further answers...

following fragment toggles Collapse Embedded Elements

Code: [Select]

newStyleEx = curDiag.StyleEx
if instr(newStyleEx, "CEE=1;") > 0 then
newStyleEx = Replace (newStyleEx, "CEE=1;", "")
else
' just to be safe, follow the Sparx pattern of putting the CEE=1 value just before the Theme
newStyleEx = Replace (newStyleEx, "Theme=", "CEE=1;Theme=")
end if
curDiag.StyleEx = newStyleEx
curDiag.Update
Repository.ReloadDiagram(curDiag.DiagramID)

Thanks, Julian