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General Board / Re: Deleting a discussion

« on: August 22, 2025, 10:51:12 pm »

Ok, logging in with the actual administrator account allowed me to delete discussions.

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General Board / Deleting a discussion

« on: August 22, 2025, 10:30:10 pm »

Hi,

How do I delete a discussion? The docs say to right click on the discussion and choose 'Delete Selected" but no such menu item appears. I have full admin access over the model. Is there some other way?

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General Board / Re: Extending SysML Requirement

« on: August 19, 2025, 12:36:18 am »

This is fixed in build 1713

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General Board / Re: Extending SysML Requirement

« on: July 25, 2025, 06:09:48 pm »

This has now been fixed and will be in the next version (after 17.1).

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General Board / Cannot get image decoration to render in ShapeScript

« on: July 09, 2025, 11:11:40 pm »

Hi,

I have a stereotype in a profile and I want to display a Green Tick decoration on it. I have this shape script:

Code: [Select]

decoration GreenTick
{
image("GreenTick",0,0,15,15);
}

I have a 16x16 PNG in the Image Manager and it is named "GreenTick".

The preview in the Shape Editor show nothing.

I believe I've followed the instructions correctly but is there something I've missed?

Thanks

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Cannot Pin MDG Technologies into the toolbox (build 1703)

« on: July 01, 2025, 09:29:23 pm »

This is fixed in 17.1 for anyone interested.

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General Board / Re: SQL Query to find elements that are missing a connection

« on: July 01, 2025, 09:28:33 pm »

I forgot to thank you for this Geert, thanks.

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General Board / Extending SysML Requirement

« on: June 11, 2025, 10:12:42 pm »

Hi,

I've followed the instructions here - https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/17.1/modeling_frameworks/non-uml_metatypes.html

And that does indeed give me my new requirement in my toolbox and I can add them to diagrams. However, attempting to make one of my new requirements "derive" from another (using the SysML connections toolbox") gives me an error saying it's not allowed. Surely this should work as my new stereotyped requirement derives from SysML1.4::requirement?

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General Board / SQL Query to find elements that are missing a connection

« on: June 11, 2025, 10:08:19 pm »

Hi all,

My SQL is super rusty. I'm trying to find all elements of stereotype "A" that to not have any connections of type "B" (let's say an association for example) with an element of stereotype "C" at the other end. I can find the inverse easy enough (Every A that has a C at the other end) but not sure where to start. Can anyone help?
Here's the opposite of what I want:

Code: [Select]

SELECT  goal_obj.ea_guid AS CLASSGUID, goal_obj.Name AS goalName,
outcome_obj.name AS outcomeName, package_obj.Package_ID AS PackageID
FROM t_object goal_obj

INNER JOIN t_package package_obj ON goal_obj.package_id = package_obj.package_id
INNER JOIN t_connector goal_outcome_connector ON goal_obj.object_id = goal_outcome_connector.end_object_id
INNER JOIN t_object outcome_obj ON goal_outcome_connector.start_object_id = outcome_obj.object_id AND outcome_obj.Stereotype = 'ArchiMate_Outcome'

WHERE goal_obj.Stereotype = 'ArchiMate_Goal'
--AND outcome_obj IS NULL
AND package_obj.Package_ID = 2396;-- 2396 is the Package ID of REDACTED


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Bugs and Issues / Re: Cannot Pin MDG Technologies into the toolbox (build 1703)

« on: October 24, 2024, 09:22:56 pm »

I agree, but I haven't got to that point yet and EA used to be able to do this.

I'll look up how to make the right MDG toolboxes per diagram but I still think this is a bug as you are able to go through all the motions to make this work but it doesn't work and it used to work

EDIT: Do I have to create a new diagram type in order to associate a toolbox page with a particular diagram? e.g. I have new Requirement types and I want my Req toolbox to be visible whenever a requirements diagram is open but I can't see how to do that at the moment. Any tips appreciated!

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Bugs and Issues / Cannot Pin MDG Technologies into the toolbox (build 1703)

« on: October 24, 2024, 08:11:32 pm »

As subject. I am able to put checkmarks next to my Model-based MDG technologies but they do not show up int he toolbox.
I am able to select them manually each time I open a diagram but this is a pain; I want them always available. Last time I had this working was version 13 so maybe there's something else I have to do these days?

Thanks for any assistance.

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General Board / Re: saving properties

« on: January 30, 2019, 07:49:41 pm »

The whole thing is very counterintuitive I find and it seems the base metamodel is so loose that they reuse things inappropriately (IMO) all the time. On the plus side they've fixed every bug I've ever reported, nearly always by the next point release.

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General Board / Re: Ports, Interfaces and Sequence Diagrams

« on: January 30, 2019, 07:45:39 pm »

Yeah I've made my component realise the interface for now but the other way is still preferable to us and our design. I'll raise it with Sparx.

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General Board / Re: Ports, Interfaces and Sequence Diagrams

« on: January 29, 2019, 03:12:49 am »

Sorry, should have said : 14.1

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General Board / Ports, Interfaces and Sequence Diagrams

« on: January 28, 2019, 11:31:45 pm »

How I expected this to work is as below:

I have a component "Foo", I put an untyped port on it and specify that port "provides" an interface "X".
X interface is defined as having a bunch of methods on it.
I drop Foo onto a sequence diagram, along with its port.
I should be able to send a message to that port and choose a method from the interface X.

The above does not work, no methods are listed.

So, should the above work?

Plan B, type the port by the interface. This also does not work; I am unable to set the type of the port at all it seems. It lets me choose a type but does not populate the Type on the properties dialog. Clicking on the Type value in the properties afterwards does cause my chosen type to render in there but the save button is disabled etc.

Do I literally have to add the methods from my port's provided interface to the component in order to be able to choose the methods for use on my sequence diagram?

many thanks for any tips anyone can provide.