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General Board / Re: Adding Information Flow Realized later.

« on: January 21, 2022, 11:24:30 pm »

Maybe I am using the realized flow incorrectly then. I am working on an existing EA model and there are only realized information flow connectors between blocks. I always interpreted it as "this is what were actually doing" kinda flow.

Here is an image of what I am talking about https://imgur.com/6kn6W4h

Thanks!

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General Board / Re: Adding Information Flow Realized later.

« on: January 21, 2022, 08:56:04 pm »

Thanks Geert for your reply.

I found it now. Its not available on non-realized information flow for me though, only on already realized information flows. I did the following to "convert" an existing non-realized IF to a realized IF:

- ad non-realized information flow to a realized information flow
- add new information flow connector and select "Add Realizing Relationship" in the menu that pops up
- right click this new connector -> Advanced Information Flow Realized -> select the non-realized information flow item

This "removes" the non-realized Information Flow and show it all in the Realized Information flow.

I was not aware of this mechanic of informations flow connectors! Good to have it working now.

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General Board / Adding Information Flow Realized later.

« on: January 21, 2022, 08:34:39 pm »

Hello,

I have a few Information Flow connectors that are not yet "Realized". According to the manual I should be able do this after adding connector by doing the following:
Right-click on connector | Advanced | Information Flows Realized
Source: https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/model_domains/informationitemsrealized.html

The "Information Flows Realized" button is missing in my version of EA (v15.2.1588). Is there any other way to Realize an existing Information Flow?

Thanks!

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General Board / Enable SysML 1.3 when only 1.5 is available

« on: December 16, 2021, 07:37:41 pm »

Hello there,

we use SysML 1.3 in our models. I only seem to have SysML 1.5 on my machine (Toolbox Visibility) which is not not fully compatible with SysML 1.3. How to enable SysML 1.3?

Thanks!

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General Board / Re: Copy multiple Root Nodes to new project with dependencies

« on: August 10, 2021, 03:37:49 pm »

It worked! Thx!

For everyone else interested:

https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/model_publishing/exporttoxmi.html
Export to XML: Select Root Node -> Publish > Model Exchange > Export XML > Export XML for Current Package
or Ctrl+Alt+E

https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/model_publishing/importxmi.html
Import: Select Root Node -> Publish > Model Exchange > Import XML > Import Package from XML
or Ctrl+Alt+I


I also found "Strip GUIDs" which is an option when importing from XML.

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General Board / Re: Copy multiple Root Nodes to new project with dependencies

« on: August 10, 2021, 03:28:57 pm »

Hi there!

Thanks for the suggestion. What do you mean by "with strip guid"?

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General Board / Copy multiple Root Nodes to new project with dependencies

« on: August 06, 2021, 05:55:43 am »

Hey there,

I have an older EA Project and would like to copy some of the Root Nodes to a new project. Problem is that some Root Nodes depend on each other. How to go about it?

Here is what I tried:
1. copy Root Node -> right click -> Copy/Paste -> Full Structure for Duplication
But there is no context menu to paste the root node to the new project.

2. create new Root Nodes with the same name as in the old project -> copy Views from old project -> paste Views into Root Nodes of new project.
This pastes most of the diagrams correctly but some are missing references to other root nodes.

Do you have any idea on how to solve this issue?

Thanks!

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General Board / Locate diagram from diagram reference

« on: March 02, 2021, 01:05:29 am »

Hey there!

When I drop an Activity diagram onto another diagram EA creates a diagram reference.

How do I locate the diagram the reference is based on? I know I can double click the reference when it is in a diagram.

But is there another way of finding it?

Edit: Also is there a way of finding all references of a particular diagram?

Thanks!

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General Board / Remove "from Package1" in nested Packages

« on: October 07, 2020, 10:32:13 pm »

Hi,

I have created a nested package structure (Package1, Package2). When I add both packages to a diagram, Package2 shows a text below its instance saying "from Package1".

Can I disable this?

https://imgur.com/QRh6fWA

Thanks!

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General Board / Re: How to refresh parameter name  on sequence diagram

« on: February 20, 2020, 09:35:06 pm »

Any update on this? At least using EA 12 does not update Operation Names automatically.

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General Board / Moving to a new SVN repository without losing history

« on: December 20, 2019, 10:47:25 pm »

Morning everyone,

I am trying to figure out what the correct way is to move model files from one SVN repo to another.

Our setup is:

• one *.eap file which serves as Master (everyone is working on copies, using EAs Check-in/Check-out
• one *.xml file for each root node in the model

So far I copied all Enterprise Architect files (.eap, .xml) to the new SVN repo and committed the changes. I updated the Version Control Settings in EA to the new directory (SVN repo) and it works like a charm.

The only gripe that I have is that all our changes (history) are gone now. So my question is how to avoid this?

Thanks!

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General Board / Re: Modeling Memory Layout

« on: November 22, 2019, 09:50:44 pm »

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I will use whatever drawing program I have on my PC then!

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General Board / Modeling Memory Layout

« on: November 21, 2019, 02:59:14 am »

Hello,

I recently started using Enterprise Architect for Modeling embedded software. Is there a way to create diagrams like this one:



This is extremely helpful for memory layouts and bit positions in protocols. I started using structs, but this loses some of the graphical information like in the picture above.

Thanks!

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General Board / Remove version controlled view.

« on: August 21, 2019, 06:21:56 pm »

Hello,

I created a version controlled 'View' under my root model and would like to delete the view. But EA gives me the following message:

You cannot delete the selected package tree at this time.
The contained package 'FW-Tasks', is currently checked-out in this model.   

(Only reporting first found checked-out package...)

In my SVN repository a name-of-view.xml packages was created. Can I just remove xml file? I would assume not.

Thanks!

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General Board / GUID on diagram

« on: April 04, 2019, 10:40:15 pm »

Hi,

when exporting EA diagrams to other tools (e.g. Word) I usually copy it as an image and put the diagram name in the Diagram Notes text field. Unfortunately after a while the diagram name may change. So locating it within EA is cumbersome.

So heres my question: Is it possible to print the GUID of a diagram on a diagram? Or is there any other way of locating a diagram?

Thanks!