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General Board / Trying to export xmi to be imported into jdeveloper

« on: April 25, 2020, 03:30:13 am »

Has anyone had success exporting a package from Sparx EA to XMI (must be UML 2.1-2.4 for jev) and importing it into jdeveloper?  The closest I go was to be able to go into the exported xmi from Sparx, globally change  value="-1" to value="9" (jdev was complaining that the value had to have a range of 0-9 or * - note:was only 10 instances) and the import completed. 

However, there were a ton of warnings, and the resultant elements did not have any of their class attributes.

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General Board / Re: value of ea_localid in XML files

« on: June 04, 2019, 01:50:14 am »

Did you ever get a resolution to this?  I am facing the same issue.

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General Board / Re: Environment Variable to define path to linked files.

« on: January 25, 2018, 04:13:22 am »

Thank you Peter.  I was able to get the web addresses to work, but I guess that using an environment variable for the path is just out of the question.  It doesn't expand it for external documents.

However, your suggestion of just dragging and dropping the docs onto a diagram worked out fine.  Thank you very much.

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General Board / Re: Environment Variable to define path to linked files.

« on: January 24, 2018, 04:14:19 am »

I dropped each type of artifact element on a diagram, opened its properties, selected file, and added the path to the file.  When I add an entire path, I can select that path and select the launch button and it opens the file.

I have seen that you can double click on one of the document based element types and it opens a document that you can edit.  But what I'm trying to do is link existing documents.

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General Board / Re: Environment Variable to define path to linked files.

« on: January 24, 2018, 01:49:01 am »

Is there a log file that I can look at to see what might be happening when I click the launch button? 
Maybe I didn't understand the instructions of the link you sent me.

I got to the manage paths, and created a variable VAR with the path C:\somedir.

Then in the properties of an artifact element, I selected files and listed the path as %VAR%\someFile.docx

I would expect that selecting this file and pressing the launch button, the file would open.  It only works when I have the full path C:\somedir\somefile.docx.  I also tried this as a hyperlink in the notes section of the element and it also did not work.

Originally, I tried it with a "real" system environment variable which also didn't work.

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General Board / Re: Environment Variable to define path to linked files.

« on: January 24, 2018, 01:33:02 am »

Thank you for your response.  Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work.  Perhaps it's only for linking source files.  In the drop down it does have a "linked file" as a type option, but it doesn't work.  Only when the full path is used will the launch of the file be successful.

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General Board / Environment Variable to define path to linked files.

« on: January 23, 2018, 07:52:25 am »

Is there any way to use an environment variable in defining the path to a linked file? Here is my intent:

To deliver an EA model in a folder which also contains a folder that will hold background documentation that can be linked to elements in the model.  Rather than an absolute path, I'd like to use an environment variable to define the base folder of the docs.  I saw someone asked this same type of question back in 2012, but with no answers.  How about today in 2018?