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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Structured Scenarios - Multiple Alternate Flow

« on: May 17, 2011, 07:34:23 am »

I don't believe that every alternate of an alternate should be another use case; although, everyone is taught differently.  I was taught that CRUD (create, read, update and delete) all go into one use case.  It is normally one of the first alternates that you have and I'm sure you can imagine that there may be lots of alternates from this initial decision.  The way that EA is designed doesn't allow for any alternates from this and it is my biggest complaint.  Thank goodness that the diagram will let you create as many alternates of alternates that you want.  I am currently piloting the tool and there are many people that don't want to use it for this very reason.  Most of our BAs only create a word template for their use cases, but are willing to create a diagram if the tool will generate the word document for them.  Until it will generate the document, I have to create the diagrams and a separate word document on my own.  I really hope that a fix for this is coming soon!

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General Board / Make External Requirement

« on: June 02, 2011, 02:32:18 am »

I started entering requirements in the steps of the activity diagram (use case activity flow diagram) and selecting to make external.  I created a new package to keep these requirements in so I knew where they went and then would drag them to the appropriate package later.  This worked perfect last week, but now the only package that I can use to make a requirement external is the high level requirement package.  Why won't it allow me to use any other package (folder) when making external?

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General Board / Copy Activity Diagrams Across Projects

« on: May 17, 2011, 07:23:12 am »

I know how to copy diagrams across projects in EA, but I would like to know if there is a way to do this without bringing all of the traceability/realization with it?  If for any reason this isn't possible and I delete the traceability off of the new project that I just pasted the diagrams in, will it remove the traceability from the original project?

Thanks,

Jen