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General Board / Re: BPMN relocating elements

« on: March 02, 2018, 02:26:09 am »

@Simon:
WHY don't the resource references show up in relationship or traceability matrix?  How can I view all processes where a BPMN resourceRole is reused?  Or see all of the activities that are in a resourceRole across multiple processes? 

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General Board / Re: BPMN: Invalid Target for the Message flow.

« on: March 02, 2018, 02:21:36 am »

Make sure that you are connecting to a pool, and not a swimlane, and make sure your event is actually a message type.  I get the error message if I try to draw a message flow from a signal event, or other event type, but not a message flow.  Hope those tips help. 

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General Board / Re: Security Disabled - How to reset security

« on: October 20, 2017, 04:36:42 am »

@ Geert -
Any familiarity with Sparx db schema to point my DB admin in right direction?

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General Board / Re: Security Disabled - How to reset security

« on: October 20, 2017, 04:29:10 am »

Thanks Uffe - Sadly, this is in our cloud connection repository - I can't create another project there.  Any other advice? 

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General Board / Security Disabled - How to reset security

« on: October 20, 2017, 01:13:18 am »

We only have one user ID / password set-up in our repository environment as we are just getting it set-up.  The user ID belongs to the admin role.  I was in the process of creating other user groups to restrict access for general users.  Somehow, I must have disabled security in the admin role, because when I log-in as admin, the "Enable Security" option under the Configure Menu - Manage Security Drop-down is greyed out.  I don't even have the option to select "enable" security to do anything.  Has anyone else encountered this and know how to reset it?

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Bugs and Issues / Tagged Values not saving for Business Process Container element.

« on: September 27, 2017, 12:25:10 am »

Steps to recreate:
a.   Create a package to act as my “default element settings”  - add BPMN diagram to package.
b.   Drag a Business Process container onto diagram.  Go to Properties – tagged values.  Add tagged values to the process element:
i.   NT_LastReviewDate
ii.   NT_Reviewer
iii.   NT_BusinessUnit
c.   Save changes to diagram
d.   Go to Configure Tab – Reference Data section and select Settings – Click on Project Template Package option.  Select my package created in step a above.
e.   Create another package in browser – and add a diagram. 
f.   Drag Business Process onto new diagram just created in step e. 
i.   Expected results = business process element – go to properties and see tagged values in step b above.
ii.   Actual result = no tagged values displayed – have to manually re-add to every new process element.  Ugh.

This is useful, as we want to have all process containers tagged with things to search and find all related business processes later - such as what value chain the process belongs to, etc.

I asked a peer to also attempt this and got this reply:
1)   I have already raised a similar bug on BPMN template elements, logged by Sparx under  reference 16115046.   This is to do with some but not all attributes, e.g. height/width, of the template item being carried forward to newly created elements.   You may want to refer to the bug I’ve raised as I believe the root cause is the same, explained by 2) below.
2)   BPMN was originally an add-in.  Element creation takes a different path to the built-in UML elements, basically there is clearly a script of some sort being run to add functionality.  In the case of a BPMN Process element, it automatically becomes composite when you create it with an associated drilldown diagram also created. 
3)   I tested a BPMN Activity element as a template element.   When used, EA honours appearance/font, with the exception of height/width,  AND carries forward any tagged values from the template element.    With the BPMN process element, nothing appears to be carried forward at all, but it takes a different path due to the composite diagram creation.
4)   I tested another technology – Archimate 3, and the ‘capability’ element as a template element.   In this case ALL attributes – colour, font, height, width, tagged values are carried over when a new capability element is created.   Definite confirmation of a bug or bugs in BPMN element creation in my view.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Changing property on multiple elements

« on: September 27, 2017, 12:21:37 am »

You can change the property for all elements of a particular type - but this will change the property for all elements of that type that you add to diagram, not just a few selected ones.  To change properties of all elements - Create a package to act as my “default element settings”. Add a diagram and drag an element of each type there, and change the properties (such as size, tagged values, etc.).  Go to Configure Tab – Reference Data section and select Settings – Click on Project Template Package option.  Select my package created in step a above.  All new elements of that type will have these 'custom' properties going forward.

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General Board / Best practices for Callable Activities - BPMN global tasks

« on: September 22, 2017, 07:52:53 am »

I am looking for a way to associate the name of the re-usable process name be associated to the called activity.   For example, I have Process 1 that is re-usable and can be called from many other parent processes, as well as from an external message - Let's say the process is "open new account". 

I have an external customer who requests a new account to be open.  Process 1 is all that happens, as stand alone, when the message from customer is received.  No issue.

Now I have another internal process, that needs to open a new account on occasion.  Process 2 needs to call "Open New Account" after some other tasks happen.  When modeling process 2, when I get to the "open new account" activity, create a new task and set the type = Call Global Task Activity, which gives me the BPMN boldout line.  I add a composite diagram to this activity, and drop process 1 as a Diagram Reference onto the page.  This gives me underlying detail.  However, I need to also name my activity in process 2 manually - duplicate the words "open new account".  There is no relationship between the activity name in parent 2 and "open new account".  Is there anyway to associate these via a reference?  When I set the "Called Activity" value in properties, it doesn't do anything to the name.  If I change the name of my process 1 to "open new ABC account" do I have to manually change the name of the activity in parent 2?

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General Board / Appearance Options Not Saving

« on: September 22, 2017, 12:49:57 am »

I am not able to some of my Theme and Appearance settings to take effect.  Some work great but I cannot get the following to save and apply.  I am on version 13.0.1310.  The following items are set and saved, but do not show up in my diagrams.

1.  Links - Default Style.  I want the default to be custom.  I select "custom" and close the preferences, but all connectors (in BPMN diagrams) continue to be added as "direct".  I have to manually click on every connector link, change line style to "custom" before I am able to click to add elbow bend at cursor.  When I go back to preferences - the setting still shows custom line.    How can I get "custom" lines to be the default???

2.  General "Landscape" setting for diagrams to save. I have gone to Diagram - Page Set-Up and selected Landscape view.  On the main Diagram preferences box, the landscape option gets checked - although in sort of greyed-out option.  When I close, diagrams continue to appear with page borders in portrait view, and continue to print this way.  When I go back to preferences - the page set-up still shows as landscape, but on the main Diagram preferences box, the landscape option is no longer checked.  I am unable to check it here.