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Bugs and Issues / Re: New installation can't uninstall non-existent older version

« on: May 31, 2021, 08:56:09 pm »

Eve, that worked.  Removing the offending key from the registry allowed the installation to succeed.  BTW, I was the 'someone' who attempted to manually remove EA.

As an observation, perhaps the installer should be able to uninstall previous versions without needing the (un)installer for those versions.  Many other products can upgrade completely with only the new installer.

Thanks for a great product!

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Bugs and Issues / New installation can't uninstall non-existent older version

« on: May 31, 2021, 08:31:17 am »

I am trying to install the latest version of EA, 15.2.  The installation fails when the installer tries to uninstall the older 15.1 version.  As far as I can tell, there is no 15.1 version installed.  I have checked the registry for 'sparx', 'enterprise', 'architect', 'ea', and nothing is found.  I have checked the file system for the same keywords and nothing is found.  Something is telling the installer that there is a 15.1 that must be uninstalled, but I cannot find where it is.

If someone can shed some light on this issue, I will be eternally grateful.

Thanks

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / BPSim - distributions to define required resources for an activity

« on: January 14, 2021, 09:27:28 pm »

Hello all,

The BPSim module offers the ability to define, for each activity, a set of required resources and the assigned workload.

The GUI offers only edition of integer values into the 'required resources' field.

Is it possible to define distributions instead of integer into this field ?

I read resources definition for an activity uses the XPath 1.0 format. Can we integrate a distribution using this notation ?

Thank you in advance for your support.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Access to MDG BPSim using JScript

« on: December 01, 2020, 08:41:58 pm »

Hello,

How can we access (using JScript) to the content of a BPSim defined in a given package ?

The context is the following :
- The project contains multiple packages
- Packages are BPMN processes, using the MDG BPSim to simulate it
- We want to be able to edit processing times using a JScript script

Didn't find answer into the Automation user guide...

Thanks in advance for your help !

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Bugs and Issues / Influence of pools on BPSim simulation capabilities

« on: November 26, 2020, 02:47:51 am »

Hello everyone,

I noticed the BPMN simulation using the BPSim engine has not the same behavior as soon as pools are defined.

Let's define the test case A having the following structure :
<<Package>> Case A
|__<<BusinessProcess>> Case A
      |__<<View>> Case A
      |__<<Activity sub process>> Activity1
            |__<<Activity sub process>> Activity2
                  |__<<Activity task>> Activity3
                  |__<<EndEvent>> EndEvent3
                  |__<<StartEvent>> StartEvent3
            |__<<EndEvent>> EndEvent2
            |__<<StartEvent>> StartEvent2
      |__<<EndEvent>> EndEvent1
      |__<<StartEvent>> StartEvent1
      |__<<BPSim>> Artifact1

This structure consists of 3 nested processes. Each of them contains a start event, an end event and a sub process (Activity1 and Activity2) or a task (Activity3).
Note that we define 1 token on the StartEvent1 start event.

BPSim simulation results shows the token reaches the Activity3. Which is the behavior we expected.

However, including a pool object breaks this simulation behavior. The token doesn't goes to objects nested into the Activity1 sub-process.

Please find the 'Case B' structure.

Let's define the test case B having the following structure :
<<Package>> Case B
|__<<BusinessProcess>> Case B
      |__<<Pool>> Pool1
            |__<<Activity sub process>> Activity1
            |__<<Pool>> Pool2
                  |__<<Activity task>> Activity2
                  |__<<EndEvent>> EndEvent2
                  |__<<StartEvent>> StartEvent2
            |__<<EndEvent>> EndEvent1
            |__<<StartEvent>> StartEvent1
      |__<<BPSim>> Artifact1

Can anyone enlighten why pool objets usage breaks the simulation behavior ?

Thank you in advance 

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General Board / Re: How to draw Association Name with a notation Solid triangle

« on: September 10, 2020, 04:17:27 pm »

work exactly as you described! thanks!

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General Board / How to draw Association Name with a notation Solid triangle

« on: September 04, 2020, 10:28:35 pm »

it is difficult without a pic. I try to describe the use case:

A class "Professor" has an association "Wrote" to class "Book". one can have a small solid triangle that placed next to or in place of the name of the association "Wrote" to show the order of the ends of the association.

Does EA support this?

thanks!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / How to view predefined stereotype and profile definitions?

« on: July 09, 2020, 01:32:56 am »

How could view predefined stereotype and profile definitions? Here are two scenarios:
 1) if I want to look like what profile is included/used in my EA model/project, e.g., maybe the SysML profile, I may want to see how the block is defined, block extends class, in this case.
 2) I have defined a profile named myProfile, and publish a model pattern including this profile. Then I create a new model using this pattern, I could set element to the stereotype defined in myProfile, but how could I show the profile package and its content to see what stereotypes are defined and how?

In Rhapsody, this is simply shown in a package as read-only/reference.  how is it achieved in EA?

Thanks!