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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New reporting alternative for EA available!

« on: January 09, 2009, 05:29:20 am »

Hi and a happy new year to all!

Today, the Mogwai project release the 0.4 release of EAReports!

Velocity is no longer used for document generation. Templates can now easily be designed by using the Word 2007 Developer toolbar. Feel free to download the current version at http://mogwai.sourceforge.net and take a look at the provided examples!

Regards
Mirko

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New reporting alternative for EA available!

« on: December 14, 2008, 12:38:30 am »

Hi@all

I release version 0.3 of Mogwai EAReports today.

One of the major enhancements is that no longer rtf templates are used for document generation. Now, Microsoft Word 2007 OOXML .docx files can directly be used as a document template. The reporting output is a Microsoft Word file. The XPath expression detection method was improved to prevent common templating mistakes.

Feel free to visit the project homepage at http://mogwai.sourceforge.net for more details

Stay tuned

Mirko

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New reporting alternative for EA available!

« on: December 09, 2008, 07:57:22 am »

Thank you. I will add this to the CVS :-)

By the way: dit you have success with XSLT and HTML generation?

Regards
Mirko

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New reporting alternative for EA available!

« on: December 02, 2008, 06:58:31 am »

HI

Yes, it might be buggy, but it is still a 0.2 release! It is coded as a proof of concept. For me, it worked pretty well. Please make sure to edit the template with wordpad, not word, as words sometimes corrupts the velocity templates. Also, if you#ve exceptions, please report them as bugs to the sourceforge projects, or post them to this thread. I will see what i can do!

Regards
Mirko

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New reporting alternative for EA available!

« on: December 02, 2008, 05:19:14 am »

Hi Lars

Yes, i am sorry. The Maven assembly was buggy. I added the new 0.2.1 release a few seconds ago. Now, example templates and generated reports are also included.

Basically, you have to use it the following way:

1. Select an enterprise architect file
2. Select the element types you are interested in (all types are selected by default)
3. Select a temp directory. The graphics and the exported xml file are written to this directory.
4. Select a template to use for report generation. You can one of the provided example templates
5. Select the filename for the target report.
6. Click the "Generate" button

An xml file is written to the temp directory, and all model diagrams as .png files as well. Now the report template is processed, the included XPath expressions are evaluated against the model xml and the target report is processed.

If you need further assistance, please let me know. I would also be glad if someone would join the Mogwai project to enhance this cool tool for EA!

Regards
Mirko

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / New reporting alternative for EA available!

« on: November 30, 2008, 03:08:45 am »

Hi@all

This week, i wrote a new reporting alternative for Enterprise Architect!

The tool is called Mogwai EAReport. Basically, it is a Java application using the Enterprise Architect automation interface. It takes an existing EAP File and converts it to an XML file. Model diagrams are converted to PNG files and also stored to the filesystem. Then, a RTF template is used to create the report. The template uses XPath to select model elements from the XML file.

It is the first version of the tool, but it already gives you more freedom than the build in RTF report generator!

Please visit the project website at http://mogwai.sourceforge.net for more details.

For questions and comments, don't hesitate to contact me!

Regards
Mirko