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General Board / How to auto generate documentation from report packages?

« on: December 23, 2018, 10:24:05 am »

I am writing some scripts to automate various documentation output tasks.
I have developed some RTF Templates and am using model documents and report packages to assemble my content – works great!
Now I want to automate the creation of my reports.  I am currently heading down the road of creating a report specification for each of my outputs and then running Project.RunReport() to create the report.
The problem that I have is that the ReportSpecifications’ DocumentOptions tag (xml) contains the attribute for the sourceguid of the package to report on (i.e. my report package) and when I provide that value to RunReport(), the document generator treats my report package like just another package and ignores the templates specified by the model documents.
Also I noticed that the document generator dialog is slightly different if you choose to Generate Documentation of a report package vs any other type of package/element:  1st input field is Master Document vs Element (respectively)
Any thoughts or suggestions?

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General Board / Documentation with images and content from different packages

« on: December 23, 2018, 10:09:30 am »

I have diagrams on in one set of packages and elements in the diagrams in other packages.  I want to generate reports with the diagrams and images together. 

Is there a way to do this beyond using a report package containing a model document for the image and another model document for the elements?  I’m thinking something like a document reference (element in the elements’ package) could be used to point to (and output) the diagram but my experiments have failed.

Any Ideas?

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General Board / Re: Report Package Page Orientation Problems

« on: January 25, 2018, 07:02:17 am »

I figured it out . . .  Add a section break at the end of each template . . .

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General Board / Report Package Page Orientation Problems

« on: January 25, 2018, 05:15:47 am »

I have a report package which contains three model documents.  Each model document uses a different RTFTemplate:  One of which is portrait oriented, the other two, landscape. 
Generated by themselves, each Model Document’s page orientation is correct but generated from the parent report package, the orientation of all pages is that of the last model document in the series – If I move a landscape oriented model document to the last position, everything comes out landscape; if I move the portrait oriented model document to the last position, everything comes out with a portrait orientation.

What am I missing in order for all contents to come out with the specified orientation?

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Proxy Connectors Lost On XMI Import and Baseline Restore

« on: June 08, 2017, 10:58:00 pm »

I have a model where it occurring quite often along with EA crashes on opening of some diagrams.  I have run the integrity check/repair and it appears to have fixed the diagram crashes and will get back to you to confirm if my XMI import/Baseline restore issues have been resolved as well.

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Bugs and Issues / Proxy Connectors Lost On XMI Import and Baseline Restore

« on: June 08, 2017, 01:32:33 am »

In our modeling efforts we are using the new "Proxy Connector" functionality to connect classes to connectors.  The functionality works well but when we are working offline (and want to reimport via XMI) or restore a package from a baseline, the connectors are lost from all diagrams that use them.

Looking at the backend database (both SQL Server and MS Access) the Proxy Connector objects are still in the t_object table but the connections are lost from the t_connector table.

EA 13.0.1310

Help!

Arnis

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General Board / View Connections as List?

« on: February 26, 2017, 04:06:02 am »

Using EA 13 . . .

We have a requirement to be able to view the properties our enterprise's integrations as a list (like you would with elements).  I cannot seem to find such a capability and have started down the road of creating a custom profile which extends "class" with the attributes we are looking for.  The new stereotype would then be used for "Association Classes" so that we can get the desired affect. 

Is their an easier way?

Thanks

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General Board / BPMN 2.0 Tagged Values (Documentation?)

« on: November 27, 2012, 04:31:49 am »

Does anyone know if documentation exists for the various BPMN 2.0 tagged values available in EA 9.3?  Also, some more in depth BPMN (EA Specific) content would be much appreciated.