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General Board / Re: Hiding flow connectors trouble

« on: March 20, 2024, 09:24:24 pm »

Hell again, Geert, sorry for disturbing you one more time. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any code snippet in your repo that could fit for my purpose, and I finally tried with chatGPT. I can go through an EA objects collection for finding the connector I want to hide, I locate it but I'm not able to finally hide it. I paste a partial code snippet for you to tell me (if you can) what I'm doing bad. I'm almost craisy :-)

                // Iterate through connectors of the element
                for (var j = 0; j < element.Connectors.Count; j++) {
                    var connector as EA.Connector;
                    connector = element.Connectors.GetAt(j);
               var nombre=connector.Name.toLowerCase();
               var index=nombre.indexOf("data transport solution");
               if(index !== -1) {
                  connector.IsHidden = true;
                  connector.Update();
               }
                }
Seems that IsHidden method doesn't exist and I don't know how to progress.

Thousand thanks, Geert, for your help.

Juan

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General Board / Re: Hiding flow connectors trouble

« on: February 04, 2024, 11:17:58 pm »

Hello Geert. First of all, many many thanks for your help and support, it's not so easy for me to find it. In the other hand, I'll try to explain what I've been told to do:
Two systems, a business model sharing a business object such as an invoice (system A sends the invoice to system B by using a flow and linking this object to the flow)
Technology model is trying to represent same flow, but business object invoice is made up by two different data objects (structured data && digital invioce -pdf as an example-). Two data objects are sent from system A to system B. I don't want to mix both models since the technical view is more complex (extra info such as deployments or communication middleware -ESB-)

I think this is a good modeling approach, but maybe i'm wrong:

1.- Could I get a good modeling sample of my use case or similar to know how to model it the right way?
2.- If manual hidding or 'freeze visible' option could fit my need, I'll apply but thousands of flows will need to be manually hidden :-(
3.- If a script could be made it would be great, but I'm not familiar with EA scripting, could you provide an example please? (As an example, a function/rpocedure that hides all data -or business- objects found in a model)

Thank you so much for your help Geert.

Juan

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General Board / Hiding flow connectors trouble

« on: February 04, 2024, 01:41:49 am »

Hi! I'm working modeling integration flows between systems (Application components) at business level (Archimate business objects linked to the flow) and technical level (Archimate Data objects and transport technology linked to the flow). We're 2 people working making two models (biz+tech) but our modeled flows appear both models. We know hiding option for a flow can hide it on other diagrams, but we're talking about hundreds of them sometimes replicated several times by EA when linking them several shared Business/Data objetcs. Is there any way to force a flow doesn't appear any other model than the one it was created for? Any other way hiding flows one by one is an stupid iterative work.

Thank you so much. Note we're not so expert in the tool yet.

Best,

Juan

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General Board / Re: Searching in EA

« on: January 20, 2024, 04:36:49 am »

Thank you so much #EA_enthusiast, I'll give a look on that and let you know.

Best regards,

Juan

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General Board / Re: Searching in EA

« on: January 20, 2024, 04:34:16 am »

Thank you so much qwerty, your comments and support are so much appreciated. Maybe I didn't explain clearly. My use case is that I need to use extended search for looking for an artifact named 'Perform_software_development' as an example. When I use the product searching interface, the search is done over ALL repositories in my connection, and I'd like to fix the searching scope to only one of them, is this possible?

Thousand thank, one more time. Best regards,

Juan

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General Board / Searching in EA

« on: January 19, 2024, 05:06:37 am »

Hello all. I'm a newbie with the tool (more ARIS experienced) and now I'm working in searching tasks for identifying duplicate object instances (archimate based, business functions and so on, TOGAF stuff) in EA. Since I need to deal with hundred of repos in my workspace, do you know if any product searching feature allows to you to search only in a selected repository (extended search when you use the tool search in all the repos, and I cannot manage it). If some automated script exists would be great.
Thousand thank you all!

Juan, Spain