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General Board / MDG technology - fail to update existing classes

« on: March 09, 2021, 04:34:31 am »

Hi there.
I have update and MDG technology I use on my model, by adding a couple of tags to my stereotyped class. New MDG import is successful. However, the behavior on new classes and existing ones is different.
1) A new class (correctly stereotyped) shows the full list of tags, according to the latest profile.
2) Existing classes (although correctly stereotyped) shows the list of tags, and relative values, from the previous profile (i.e., does not add the two new tags)
3) However, if I manually remove and reassign the stereotype, the class shows all the tags (including the two new ones) and also keep the values for the existing one.

Now, 3) is the desired behavior (and the correct one IMO). How should I achieve it without manually updating +200 classes? Is there any "refresh" function?
Thanks

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General Board / Re: XMI export - strip associations to external reference

« on: February 09, 2021, 07:10:45 pm »

What do you mean by "strip"? Delete associations?

q.

Yes, I do mean delete those associations

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General Board / XMI export - strip associations to external reference

« on: February 09, 2021, 06:53:04 pm »

As a user exporting the XMI of one package of my model
When the classes of the exported package have associations to other classes of other packages (which are not exported)
I would like to strip all these associations to such "not included" elements

Anyone knows if there's a quick way to do this? I've found nothing in the publish XMI settings.
Thanks

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General Board / Re: Editing permission not covering relationships

« on: July 17, 2020, 11:17:11 pm »

I'm making other tests. Element editing works as it should (I can have a locked element represented in an unlocked diagram, just I cannot edit it), so it's not a matter of wrong permissions. Just seems it does not apply to relationships at all. I'm even able to delete existing relationships of locked elements. Never happened before in EA14. @Geert: do you think this bug might be related to the EA version?

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General Board / Editing permission not covering relationships

« on: July 17, 2020, 09:50:18 pm »

Hi there, in the EA15 user guideline https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/team_support/permissionlist.html seems that the "Update Elements" permission shall enable/disable the right of the user to create/edit/delete elements, packages AND relationships. However, I made some tests and it seems that I'm able to:

• create a realisation from an unlocked class to a locked interface
• create a realisation from a locked class to a locked interface
• create a realisation from a locked class to an unlocked interface

Is there anything I am missing about this kind of user permission?

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General Board / Class and its realised Interface - SQL query

« on: January 11, 2020, 04:44:19 am »

Hi there, I'm trying to query my model in order to get a table with two columns: on with the name of the class and the other with name of the interface realised by the class. First of all, is there a built-in search of this kind or should I build a custom SQL query? In this second case, has anyone done anything similar before? Should I use End_Object_ID and Start_Object_ID of the t_connector table?

Thanks

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General Board / Re: Element's attribute icon

« on: September 24, 2019, 12:58:58 am »

Paolo, unfortunately this is happening also on my laptop screen. No particular screen settings, no multi-density.
My colleagues are experiencing the same behavior on their machine, with brand new files. (our EA version is 14.1.1428)

E

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General Board / Element's attribute icon

« on: September 23, 2019, 07:20:02 pm »

Hi all,
I'm having an issue with the icons of attributes inside the Project Browser. When attribute's scope is set to "public" I got a black-squared icon (link to image below). I cannot find inside the User Guide any reference to attributes' icons to check whether this is the default behavior or I have some UI issue.

Any thoughts?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cx3tndc1z5gzfbd/MicrosoftTeams-image.png?dl=0
 

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General Board / Connect specified attributes to element

« on: November 07, 2018, 08:24:53 pm »

Hi there,
I have a class with 10+ attributes and trying to connect only few of them to another element. I've made few tries, here's my thoughts:

1) I've tried the "Connect to Element Feature", but if I'm not mistaken it is just a visual aid. (In code generation the link is interpreted as a normal source-element to target-element relationship);

2) I've created a custom tagged value with the predefined structure type "RefGUID". This might fulfill my needs, but I'd like to see this relationship (maybe in Traceability window or inside target element's features);

3) My model is wrong. If I want an element to inherits only certain attributes from another elements, I should do this in another way.

Any other comments on this topic?
Thanks
E.
 

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General Board / MDG fail to upload

« on: September 22, 2018, 12:37:26 am »

Hi everybody,
I've been using a MDG I created for 6 months.
Since this morning it just stopped working, I can't see my profile, my diagrams and my toolbox anymore.
I tried to:
- remove it from MDG user folder and replace it
- import it into the model (after deleting it from MDG Technologies folder)

Nothing changed. Any idea how to overcame this enormous issue I'm facing?

Thanks
E.

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General Board / Re: Documenting enumerations under respective attributes

« on: September 11, 2018, 10:59:16 pm »

Ok, does it mean not achievable through EA template editor only?
I saw your tool for model generation (thanks), but I guess my problem is more on the template side. Am I wrong?
Thanks

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General Board / Documenting enumerations under respective attributes

« on: September 11, 2018, 08:22:00 pm »

Hi,
I'm building a document template and I'd like an enumeration element referred to a certain class' attribute to be reported just below that particular attribute.
I know enumerations are elements themselves, that's why default Model Report template lists all the enumerations after all my classes.
Any idea how to achieve this?

Thanks,
E.

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General Board / Re: Virtual Documents with EA14

« on: September 11, 2018, 05:44:27 pm »

Ok,
none of your solutions worked. And it was because (for unknown reasons) EA MDG tech. "core extension" was disabled.
I activated it, and now I see what I shoul see. Thank you
E

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General Board / Virtual Documents with EA14

« on: September 11, 2018, 01:52:34 am »

Hello there,
I'm trying to create a virtual document following the EA User Guide correspondig to my version (14) https://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/14.0/model_publishing/virtualdocuments.html

Actually, I'm failing the very first step because in my toolbox I can't see any "Documentation" section. Moreover, when I click on "Search" to display the 'Find Toolbox Item' dialog and specify 'Report Package' or 'Model Document' none of them is available. Am I missing anything?

Thanks, E.

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General Board / Connection not UML compliant (MDG - EA14)

« on: July 25, 2018, 06:05:41 pm »

Hi,
I'm reviewing a profile I created for an MDG technology (EA14). When I try to create a new stereotype that extends a new metaclass, I get the "requested connection is not UML compliant" message.
Any suggestion on why this happens, and how to fix it?
Thanks,
E