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General Board / Re: Can I make an ArchiMate Flow with Payload appear in the Traceability window?

« on: May 15, 2025, 09:28:39 pm »

Update: I just discovered that the Association between the Flow and the Business Object is not displayed when I start a new diagram with Business Process A and "Insert Related Elements..."

Even after specifying 5 levels for finding relationships and enabling all connector types and all element types, the Flow relation to Business Process B is displayed without the Association to the Business Object. If it cannot be found in the Traceability window for the Business Object, could it be visible when inserting related elements, as a minimum?

More generally, how can then relations to relations be analysed across the project?

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General Board / Can I make an ArchiMate Flow with Payload appear in the Traceability window?

« on: May 15, 2025, 08:52:15 pm »

Dear all,

ArchiMate 3 allows relations to relations, i.e. a Flow relation between two Business Processes can have a Business Object connected to it using an Association relation.
(See the example here: https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/archimate32-doc/images/ex-Association.png or look for Example 10 on this page: https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/archimate32-doc/ch-Relationships-and-Relationship-Connectors.html#sec-Association-Relationship )

However, when I click on the Business Object on a diagram, this Association and the associated Flow do not appear in the Traceability window. At the same time, the window lists all Access relations between the Business Object and Business Processes, for example.

For me, this association with a Flow and later on, with the two Business Processes at the two ends of the Flow, should be included in the Traceability information. Do you know why it is not and how I can have it added?

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General Board / Re: Hidden connectors do not appear in the Relation Matrix View

« on: March 14, 2025, 08:05:42 pm »

Thank you very much, Takeshi. I tried the Package/Matrix functionality and I found it much more convenient in my case.

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General Board / Re: Hidden connectors do not appear in the Relation Matrix View

« on: March 08, 2025, 05:45:20 am »

Is there really no way to display hidden connectors in the Matrix without unhiding them on the Graphical view?

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General Board / Hidden connectors do not appear in the Relation Matrix View

« on: February 13, 2025, 04:04:36 am »

Hello,

I created an ArchiMate diagram, nested visually Application Components inside Capabilities, linked them using Realizations and hid the connectors.
On the same diagram, I added System Software elements and linked them to Technology Service elements using Realizations again. For these elements, I did not hide the connectors.

When I switch to the Relation Matrix View, only the visible connectors are shown. In the empty matrix cells, I can right-click and click Show Relation but this shows the relation not only in the matrix, but also on the Graphical View.

Is there another way to display hidden connectors in the matrix without unhiding them on the Graphical View? My intention is to use element nesting extensively and I would not like the connectors between the nested elements to be graphically visible.

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General Board / Re: The mouse wheel is scrolling too fast. How to slow it down?

« on: February 01, 2025, 12:28:25 am »

I found that it is possible to scroll down a diagram using the down arrow key. When I scroll with the mouse only once, the diagram jumps 3 times farther than with the keyboard. This seems to correspond with my Windows mouse wheel setting to scroll 3 lines each time.

Now, probably a "line" in an EA diagram is just too high compared to Word or the web browser. I suppose that it might be possible to work around this by adjusting the size of the diagram grid, if there is such a setting. I will look around the configuration screens and post back.

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General Board / Re: The mouse wheel is scrolling too fast. How to slow it down?

« on: January 31, 2025, 10:42:26 pm »

My current Windows mouse setting is to scroll 3 lines each time. This is already close to the minimum possible.

If I increase the value, as a test, the mouse starts scrolling faster in all applications, as expected, but exponentially faster in EA compared to the others. When I decrease it back to 3, I am back to the original situation. Scrolling is much faster in EA than in any other application.

I am afraid that I am working in a controlled IT environment where the installation of third-party mouse control tools should be avoided. Isn't there any own EA setting about this? Nor in the Windows registry?

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General Board / The mouse wheel is scrolling too fast. How to slow it down?

« on: January 30, 2025, 08:03:55 pm »

Hello all,

This is most probably not a bug, but a design decision. When I scroll vertically using the mouse wheel in EA 17, both in a diagram or an article in the integrated help, the content jumps a little too much. It is twice or three times faster than in Word or a web browser on the same PC.

I suppose that, since this behaviour is specific to EA, there would be a UI setting to tweak somewhere. However, I can't find it. Can you help me, please?