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General Board / Creating a stereotype with tagged values

« on: March 07, 2025, 07:41:35 pm »

Dear all,

I know how to create stereotypes and tagged values using Configure/UML types. I know how to type tagged values using their description and even have created moderately complex ShapeScripts. Now I wanted to have a stereotype that like FlowPort comes with its own tagged values.

How far I got:

• Created a package with the EAUML::profile stereotype set
• Added a package diagram to that package
• Added a metaclass element to that diagram that extends Core Elements/Object
• Added a stereotype element to the diagram
• Added a "extends" connector starting from the stereotype to the metaclass
• Created an object diagram in a totally different package and placed an object inside that diagram
• Went to the properties window and tried to select my newly created stereotype by pressing on the "..." button in the Stereotype field. But I didn't find my stereotype there.

What did I do wrong?
My hope was by adding the "EAUML::profile" stereotype to my package everything inside that package would get known to the stereotype and tagged value selector.

The documentation says as the next step I can add tagged values to the Stereotype, and I even succeeded to add predefined ones to it. I also can add Tagged Value elements to my package diagram, but the documentation is a bit unclear on how to fill them with enumeration values, or type them bool, Real or Integer. And - most importantly: How do I then get those stereotypes and Tagged Values selectable in an object's properties page?

Thanks a lot in advance!

    Gunter.

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General Board / Re: Finding the connector a connector is connected to

« on: March 11, 2024, 09:33:48 pm »

Ha! Now it works. Thanks a lot!

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General Board / Re: Finding the connector a connector is connected to

« on: March 11, 2024, 09:07:02 pm »

Wow... ...how do I make such a SQL request? And do we need to inform Sparx that the classifier GUID should be exposed to the API? If yes: How does one do that?

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General Board / Re: Finding the connector a connector is connected to

« on: March 11, 2024, 04:59:32 pm »

Placed a minimal .eapx file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xlAYS8m7n4dbaKTP4TjFwBppquMQ6h0y/view?usp=drive_link

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General Board / Re: Finding the connector a connector is connected to

« on: March 11, 2024, 04:52:22 pm »

Waiting a weekend didn't help: myconnectorTarget.ClassifierID still reads zero for all ProxyConnector elements => Created a minimal .eapx file that allows to reproduce the problem?

Is there any means to attach it to a forum message?

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General Board / Finding the connector a connector is connected to

« on: March 09, 2024, 02:32:50 am »

As far as I have understood in EA connectors aren't objects => they have no list who connects to them. Instead a connector is never directly connected to a connector, but to a ProxyConnectorElement.

By vbScript actually finds ProxyConnector elements. But if I try to find out where they end by looking at their ClassifierID I get a "0".
What am I doing wrong?


   ' iterate over all objects
   dim objects
   set objects = Repository.GetElementSet("select object_id from t_object where object_type = 'Object'", 2)
   dim currentobject as EA.Element
   for j = 0 to objects.Count() - 1
      set currentobject = objects.GetAt(j)
      
      ' Now iterate over all connectors this object has
      dim objectConnector as EA.Connector
      for each objectConnector in currentobject.Connectors
         dim myconnectorTarget as EA.Element
         set myconnectorTarget = Repository.GetElementByID(objectConnector.ClientID)
         
         ' Our connector technically isn't directly connected to a connector, but to an connector proxy
         ' object named 'ProxyConnector' that then knows the ID of the connector => seach for
         ' proxy connectors
         Session.Output myconnectorTarget.Type
         Session.Output myconnectorTarget.ClassifierID
         if myconnectorTarget.Type = "ProxyConnector" then
            ' Let's try to find out what connector that ProxyConnector is connected to
            dim myconnectorTargetID
            myconnectorTargetID = myconnectorTarget.ClassifierID
            dim targetConnector as EA.Connector
            set targetConnector = Repository.GetElementByGuid(myconnectorTargetID)                  
         end if
      next
   next

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General Board / Re: A stereotype that changes the color of a port according to a Tagged value

« on: March 04, 2024, 06:38:12 pm »

Tested it for a few days now and legends work fine. Thanks a lot!

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General Board / A stereotype that changes the color of a port according to a Tagged value

« on: February 26, 2024, 11:29:41 pm »

I have used knowledge from this forum for many shape scripts, already. But now I have a question that exceeds what I found out widely: I want to create a stereotype that

• ideally comes with its own tag (like the FlowPort stereotype does come with a direction tag)
• that changes the line color of the ports it affects and
• that can be combined with other stereotypes like flowport (that does change the port decoration) or a stereotype that only changes the background color

What I know is:

• how to create my own stereotypes via configure/UML types(but not how to bundle them with a tag).
• That I can draw a stereotype into a diagram and add tags to it. But then I don't know how to apply that stereotype to a port.
• If I don't use a shape script I know the buttons that change the colors in a way that plays well with other stereotypes. Also I know how to make the shape script react to tagged values.

But all that combined doesn't add up to what I think I need...