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General Board / Re: Diagram \ Element Locking

« on: March 20, 2023, 09:14:16 pm »

Thanks for all the responses.  Had hoped that it implemented locking as a standard feature much like many other CASE tools I have used in the past.

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General Board / Diagram \ Element Locking

« on: March 16, 2023, 03:09:17 am »

If someone is in the process of editing a diagram or an element, will EA stop anyone else from editing it?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Save location of configuration settings associated with MDG link for DOORS 3.0

« on: February 03, 2023, 02:34:58 am »

We are using EA V15.2 and have deployed the MDG link for DOORS 3.0 with DOORS V9.6.1.  Our deployment is over Citrix. 

What I need to understand is where EA saves the configuration settings associated with creating connections in the Module Manager and mapping profiles in the Profile Manager. From using the MDG it appears as through all these settings are specific to the user who created them rather than the EA project \ SQL Database.  Need this information to ensure it is correctly saved \ managed within the configured and secure Citrix environment within which we are working.

Any clarity you can offer on this would be greatly appreciated.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MDG Shape Script and Image - What am I missing?

« on: December 21, 2022, 12:33:34 am »

Yep all .emf images in the MDG

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / MDG Shape Script and Image - What am I missing?

« on: December 20, 2022, 10:41:58 pm »

Created an MDG with numerous stereotypes. Endeavouring to implement specific image for a specific stereotype.  Image files are all .emf.  All preloaded in to development project and included as images within the MDG.

shape main
{
    layouttype="border";
    image("TechName::PC",0,0,100,100);
   addsubshape("name","S");
      shape name
      {
         h_align="center";
         print("#NAME#");
      }
}

When MDG is imported into new empty project the specific stereotype is rendered as a grey box with the name underneath.  The expected image is not presented on element.  From review of the Images library, all the image files are present by name but when you view the image the image is simply a grey box.  Can anyone explain and guide me as to what I may be doing wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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General Board / Re: Enable Custom Draw Style bug EA Version 16.0.1604

« on: June 14, 2022, 08:42:29 pm »

Had similar problems with DefaultImage=0 left in the t_object.styleex. Ended up writing script to remove DefaultImage=0 to correct it

Cheers.  Always nice to know I'm on the right track.   Figured out the script and things are working the way we require. Cheers

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General Board / Enable Custom Draw Style bug EA Version 16.0.1604

« on: June 14, 2022, 02:46:00 am »

Hoping someone might have an answer to this before I go to the trouble of scripting a change to t_object.stylex for affected elements.

Problem
Where an element has previously been assigned a Default Image and subsequently this has been reset to None in the Image Manager, it is not possible to fully exploit the 'Enable Custom Draw Style' functionality.  You are limited to changing the shape.  Any attempt to change fill colour is ignored whilst you have 'Enable Custom Draw Style' active.  If you disable it you will find that the default element appearance has been affected by your colour choices.  Noted that the key difference between elements which can and cannot be manipulated fully using this feature appears to be the entry in t_object.styleX of DefaultImage=0;  i.e. if there is reference to a DefaultImage the functionality is reduced.  Elements which do not have this value may be manipulated using the aforementioned function.  Used all the reset to defaults options.  At a loss to resolve this so would appreciate some help.  If not I'll hack

Cheers

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General Board / Re: MDG - Disable 'Show Namespace' for all diagrams in MDG

« on: May 23, 2022, 06:03:32 pm »

Thanks for all the replies.  Having reviewed them I can see how poorly I authored my initial issue.  Should have stated my problem not what I perceived was the solution.

@Sunshine you hit the nail on the head with NoFullScope=1. I was looking for an option which merely allowed just the name and type of the element to be present on a symbol in a diagram by default.   I'd been totally focused on toggling the value of 'Show Namespace' in diagram properties as this seemed the logical option to disable.  I had not considered that there might have been a completely different option in the list that would achieve the desired outcome.   

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General Board / MDG - Disable 'Show Namespace' for all diagrams in MDG

« on: May 20, 2022, 07:51:23 pm »

This appears to be a dark art!  I've trawled this forum and have not found the definitive answer.

I have an MDG with a number of new diagram types.  I wish to ensure that when these diagrams are created, none of them will be plagued by the 'Show Namespace'.   Please can someone direct me as to how to disable this using the MDG technology builder.

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General Board / RAS Import Out of Memory Error

« on: December 15, 2020, 08:56:41 pm »

Can anyone help.  I have been endeavouring to import a model from our RAS library.  This has previously gone successfully.  I have now attempted the import 5 times and each time I end up with an EA Out of memory error.  This error has presented as early as 5 mins into the process and as late as an hour. 

Running EA V15.0.1511

Any guidance would be appreciated

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General Board / Document Generation: How to Auto generate Table of Tables and Table of Figures

« on: October 01, 2020, 11:19:48 pm »

Hopefully this is not a difficult one to get some advice on Google and co are letting me down.

I need to be able to automatically generate a "Table of Tables" and a "Table of Figures" as part of the document generation process in EA for numerous document deliverables.  I'm currently fudging this with a post processing macro in Word. 

Can this be done?  And if so, How?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Automatically Change the setting of ShowForeign in Diagram Properties via VBA

« on: July 29, 2020, 11:18:13 pm »

I'm creating a VBA script to automatically establish a standard set of diagram properties.  I am unable to find how I can set the value for ShowForeign, as it is known in t_diagram, or Show Namespace as it is displayed within the tool.  Can anyone assist with the syntax necessary to achieve this.

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General Board / Re: avoiding duplication

« on: July 23, 2020, 06:58:10 pm »

What you really need is to use a tool that will stop duplicates from ever being created.

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Bugs and Issues / Find where an Image Asset has been used as the appearance of another Element

« on: February 26, 2020, 02:11:32 am »

We have used external images extensively.  These have been added to the repository as Image Assets and used as the alternate imagery for various elements.  I'm trying to identify which elements have used which image assets.  Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Bugs and Issues / Re: How can you identify the child diagram attached to an element in another diagram

« on: February 14, 2020, 08:45:36 pm »

@qwerty thanks for the guidance. great first step.  Failed to locate any elements of type Text i.e. the NavigationCells which have been over used in our DB.  Can you help in this.


Ignore as I've found what NType 82 refers to and PDATA1 identifying the child diagram via Diagram_ID.


Thanks