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General Board / Re: Tagged values in CSV export, how?

« on: January 17, 2008, 10:14:57 am »

Sorry, I got it mixed up.

Anyway, I wouldn't have expected EA to create the tagged values defined by a profile on CSV import. It doesn't create them if you change an element's stereotype either, but only when you create a new element which has that stereotype from the start. And it couldn't fill them on CSV import anyway cause they've never been exported in the first place.

Understand that it creates Tagged values when you create a new object from a profile... but why, if you import CSV and specify that you are importing of the profile's type would it not create a new one of those and WITH Tagged values ready to fill out.  There's the rub.  

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General Board / Re: Tagged values in CSV export, how?

« on: January 12, 2008, 06:13:39 am »

The CSV Import, not the XMI import.

When you import from CSV, and set the Type and Stereotype to match your Profile's new type name, the new objects created on import do not have the Tagged Values you created in the new profile.

Hope that helps clarify.

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General Board / Re: Tagged values in CSV export, how?

« on: January 10, 2008, 02:12:34 pm »

Since, using Profiles, we can extend MetaClasses with Stereotypes that extend the available Tagged Value "Attributes", it would make sense to be able to import and export the Tagged values.

There is a bug, however, in the use of Profiles:  Create a bunch of objects based on a profile, export them, and re-import them without GUID's (as new object), they will import just fine... except the Tagged values from the profile are not present.

A possibility...You could use a Tagged Value format for a TaggedValue field in the import/Export CSV based on Python's Dictionary List, like this...

{'NumericTag': 4139, 'NumericTag2': 4127, 'Person': 'Jill'}

It's just an unordered set of key: value pairs.

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General Board / Re: Newbie guide

« on: January 12, 2008, 06:23:37 am »

I think that the book "Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML" is a relatively good guide to try and put it all together.

Please note that I don't work for Iconix I just think it is a good book.

Agreed.  This is the book of choice.  ICONIX Process gives you an end-to-end methodology using 4 UML diagrams that takes you from Use Case driven design to CODE!

It just doesn't get any better (or simpler) than that!  The ICONIX Process also has the benefit of fostering collaboration  between Business users, Analysts, Developers like no other approach... and I've tried them all!

Best regards, and good luck!