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General Board / Re: EA Repository Structure

« on: August 20, 2024, 09:30:14 pm »

Thank you Modesto Vega,
I have messaged you but this is an interesting and helpful suggestion.

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General Board / EA Repository Structure

« on: August 15, 2024, 01:06:29 am »

I am sure there are as many ways to organise an Enterprise Architecture repository in Sparx as there are Sparx customers, but I would be keen to see some examples that organisations have found helpful and why.

We started with the TOGAF 10 Repository Structure but I am not sure this is really that practical with most elements and drawings end up in sub packages in the Architecture Landscape.

We were thinking of adding a top level Projects package in which all elements, be they proposed changes to current state, or an interim state or a final state would be created. Once deployed, they would be moved into the Architecture Landscape and the earlier states removed.

Just wondering what is considered best practice in Sparx

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General Board / Re: How do you remove an Image Asset from an element

« on: September 20, 2023, 12:01:40 am »

Bug submitted

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General Board / Re: Print to pdf with coloured background

« on: August 04, 2023, 06:23:25 pm »

Sparx Systems have responded and state "This is the intended behaviour for PDF generation".

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General Board / Re: How do you remove an Image Asset from an element

« on: August 04, 2023, 06:20:39 pm »

In case you are wondering, the answer is simple, but a little odd in my opinion.  If you delete (soft delete) the element from the diagram and then add it back in the associated Image Asset is not there.

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General Board / How do you remove an Image Asset from an element

« on: August 02, 2023, 10:05:55 pm »

If I take an element (say an Archimate Application Component) and select Appearance > Select an Alternate Image I have a new image for my element. If you want to change the image I can select a different one, if I want to revert to the original I select NONE.  I am happy'ish.

If I take an element and select Appearance > Select an Image Asset I can chose from a library of such elements of Type Artefact Stereotype of Image. Great, so far.  I can change to a different Image Asset, also great, BUT how to I set the image back to the original element such as the Archimate symbol I started with?

I am sure I am missing something obvious.

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General Board / Print to pdf with coloured background

« on: July 26, 2023, 02:01:01 am »

I am experimenting with the use of themes, with and without tiles to produce a dark blue background in line with corporate colours.  This is fine and I can produce a jpg or copy to Clipbaord.  But I cannot find the setting to allow me to print to pdf with the colour background. It seems to only print or print to pdf with a white (I assume no colour) background.
Any pointers to the required settings please. 

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General Board / Data Lineage Diagramming

« on: July 21, 2023, 01:00:57 am »

I am looking for examples of Data Lineage Diagrams. For example an Application may generate two datasets. These are passed to a second application which combines them and creates a new dataset which is passed to another Application  etc. There are other use cases where an application just passed a Dataset to another unchanged, but it may extract some data.  This would mean I need two duplicate a Dataset to appear more than once on a diagram, which is not permitted. I don't want to virtualise the connector end as this is very difficult to control. I don't want to create a copy, as it is exactly the same dataset.  I want to duplicate the same element on the diagram such that changing one changes the other.
Any ideas on either or both.

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General Board / Understanding color changes when selecting Use Dark Theme Style

« on: July 19, 2023, 12:01:55 am »

The selecting in Preferences > Diagram > Standard Colors > Use Dark Theme Style changes the colours of our user defined elements quite dramatically.  I am trying to understand what the default mapping is. What is done to the colours to darken them?