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General Board / Re: Shared document sections and fragments in Documentation Templates

« on: March 30, 2022, 12:58:29 am »

Hello Modesto.

I have the same problem as you; wanting to have common text for 2 or more templates. Did you find a solution?

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General Board / Static text for two documents

« on: March 30, 2022, 12:32:25 am »

Greetings everybody.

I am using EA 15.2, and I have a model with a set of packages, that contain a UML application design. I wish to produce two design documents from my model - one high-level and one low-level.

These two documents will have a lot of static text that is the same for both documents - the introduction, the list of references, the list of third-party libraries and licences, and so on. So I would like to store in my model the blocks of text that are common (that's to say, these blocks are the same in both documents). I'm sure there is a simple way to do this, but I cannot find it in the online documentation.

I'm thinking that I need something like:

Template 1     standard text     Template 2
"High level"                     "Low level"
         <--- INTRODUCTION --->
         <--- GLOSSARY ------->
Packages with                    Packages with
high level info                  low level info
         <--- RISKS ---------->
         <--- LIBRARIES ------>
         <--- REFERENCES ----->


I thought that template fragments would do this, but I can only add those into a template at the package level or below. But I wish to add them OUTSIDE the package sections. Can anybody guide me please?

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General Board / Re: Database columns and SQL queries

« on: February 24, 2022, 01:22:36 am »

Hello Geert.

Thank you for your swift answer, that's good to know... I'm hoping that EA's own functions will be sufficient to do what I wish.

Taking #2 first - I've reached the scratch pad in the model search, and I can run an SQL query. I'm modelling Requirements, using EA's UML extension for requirements.

I have 3 sets of Stakeholder requirements in a set of subpackages, and I'm defining System requirements to implement them. How do I tell that a requirement record is implemented, that is, what SQL query would I need in order to show Stakeholder requirements that have at least one linked System requirement linked to them? This is similar to the QA Report that shows which elements have been implemented (or not); my ultimate aim is to count the implemented ones so that I can produce a burnup chart as a timed report.

More widely - is the internal schema/structure of an EA database published anywhere?

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General Board / Database columns and SQL queries

« on: February 23, 2022, 10:52:51 pm »

Greetings all.

I'm using EA 15.2, with an EAPX file for a repository. For my reporting, I wish to run some SQL queries against my model.

1 - How do I find out what columns are present in my database?

2 - I've tried opening the Database Builder to reach the "SQL Scratch Pad", so that I can try some test queries. But the Database Builder doesn't open my current model when it starts, and I can't see how to make it open the model. What do I need to do, to make the Database Builder query my currrent model? Or should I be using another tool to run ad-hoc SQL queries?


Pointers to online help documents are welcome - I'm fairly new to EA, and don't know where to look.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MDG link for DOORS imports no requirements

« on: December 08, 2021, 09:48:48 pm »

I've spotted what was wrong - the DOORS module that I was using did not have an attribute that described the Object Type. Adding such an attribute (and making no other change) resulted in a successful import.
 

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / MDG link for DOORS imports no requirements

« on: December 08, 2021, 02:38:58 am »

Hello all. I'm using EA 15.0 with the current MDG module for DOORS importing, and have DOORS 9.7.0.

I've done several successful test imports of Formal Modules from DOORS into EA. I'm using a local file repository for now, it will be a database in future.

But my latest import session was strange, because it looked correct, but did nothing. It imported no requirements, and produced a totally empty log file.

Has anybody here seen this, and can share some suggestions? I've always used the same EA file repo up till now, is this a mistake?

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General Board / Re: Import from Doors into EA with MDG Link

« on: December 08, 2021, 01:43:29 am »

Yes, the MDG package (at least, the one that I am using, with EA 15.0) preserves the links if you select the checkbox on the "Import" dialogue before importing. It doesn't import the DOORS linksets, but does preserve the connections. If you then drag, say, 2 linked requirements onto a diagram, EA shows the link between them.

I've only done it with a synthetic set of requirements so far, but EA showed the "fulfils" relationships correctly.