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General Board / Re: Search SQL Query - Composite Diagram

« on: July 23, 2015, 04:34:05 pm »

Thank you guys,
this was realy helpful and saved me a lot of wasted time.

@qwerty: Yes the users will use the "link to feature" functionality of the connectors.

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General Board / Search SQL Query - Composite Diagram

« on: July 22, 2015, 11:21:46 pm »

Hi there,

I am working in EA 10 right now and I have an request for a special search.

To make it easier to understand I'll first describe what is in the model.

So we have a diagram with an element e1. This element e1 has an composite diagram c1. In this diagram c1 there is a link to e1 and some other linked objects o1-o10 some of the attributes a1-a3 of these objects o1-o10 are linked into (or out of) the e1.

We do this in this kind of way, because we don't want do define (sometimes) hundreds of parameters (in/out) for elements like e1.

Well now it's time for my search.

I begin with on of the attributes a1.
From this a1, I want to find all elements like e1 that are having this one as incoming or outgoing link.

Well I would know this in a DB I designed myself, but those ea db tables are realy confusing in the way they are designed.
e.g. I can't find a table where a the composite diagram of an object is stored.

So what I like to know: Is there a "nearly" complete EA db-schema somewhere? Or what is the easiest way to find how those elements are related?`

Maybe is there a table where "link" uses of objects are hold.
 
Best regards and thanks,
Eric

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General Board / Re: UML Types for Standard BPMN 2.0 stereotypes

« on: July 16, 2015, 11:29:24 pm »

Okay guys,

after days of trying different stuff I'll post my own solution in case somebody will find this topic with the same requirement:

The "problem" is that BPMN2.0 works with hidden subtoolboxes, so to make this work you will have to do some "adjustments".
In you UML-profile:
1.)  you will need to extend your own event-sterotype (MyStartEvent) from <<metaclass>> Event (the standard UML::Event).
2.) Your extended stereotype will need to generalize the BPMN2.0::StartEvent sterotype.

In the Toolbox profile:
3.) You will have to add your own sterotype in your toolbox-submenu with a certain notation:
NameOfYourProfil::YourEventSterotypename(UML::Event) e.g. Prozessmodel::MyStartEvent(UML::Event)

This will make your item appear in the toolbox and be drag&drop-able into your custom diagram.

Well there is an issue with the icon of your custom StartEvent. It will display the icon of the standard uml event not of BPMN2.0::StartEvent. However, I wasn't able to get this done without overwriting the tagged value of the event:

In your uml-profile:
4. Add an attribute to your MyStartEvent stereotype called "icon". As standardvalue paste a path to a 16x16 bitmap image. (I think you'll be able to create a one looking like the BPMN2.0::StartEvent in no time).
The EA help tells that you should take the color "lightgrey" as "transparent" color (rgb: 192,192,192).
That's it Not that hard, but without the information it's quite much trying.

Good luck,
Regards,
Eric

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General Board / Re: UML Types for Standard BPMN 2.0 stereotypes

« on: July 14, 2015, 06:48:21 pm »

Hi Qwerty,

I will wait here another few days for a reply, maybe someone knows how to achieve what I try to do.

To make my problem easier to understand here is a "more precise" explanation:

I created three <<profile>> packages. One for the  (1)definition of diagramtypes for the mdg package, another for the (2) diagram definition itself and one for the (3) toolbox.

So the first package looks like this:

(1): Classdiagram with the name of my custom diagramtype
There is a <<metaclass> Diagram_Analysis and a <<stereotype>> MyDiagram which extends from the first one. (So this one provides my diagramtype for the mdg package)
- this part is fine working.

(2):
The second one is UML profile. It defines some customized (generalized) classes like my own "<<sterotype>>ExlusiveGateway" which generalizes from <<stereotype>>BMPN2.0::Gateway. (I added those ones with the Metaclass item from the toolbox, and this is working fine for gateways and activities.

-> I also have there the <<stereotype>>BPMN2.0::StartEvent e.g.
My own <<stereotype>>MyStartEvent generalizes from this stereotype.

(3):
In the diagram there is the <<metaclass>>ToolboxPage and some <<stereotypes>> like "Elements", "Events", "Gateways" etc.
In those there are attributes defined like Prozessmodellierung::ExclusiveGateway :int = MyExclusiveGateway.

So what works and what doesnt:

- Elements like Activities and Gateways which I extended work fine, I can drag and drop them from my toolbox in my own diagram type.
- I can also set other styles for those elements in the "UML types".

- My extended Events though show just those big brackets <<>> like from a stereotype, but not any picture. If I drag & drop them from the toolbox nothing is happening. The diagram remains empty, and nothing is added into the package.
 
- What's interessting to notice: While I can add e.g. standard BPMN2.0::Gateways from the context menu, my diagram won't take any event from the bpmn2.0 elements.

I appreciate any help with this issue,

Best Regards,
Eric


PS: This is how my (Save as profile) .xml looks like:

Code: [Select]

<Stereotype name="ExclusiveGateway" notes="" cx="121" cy="70" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0" generalizes="BPMN2.0::Gateway" baseStereotypes="BPMN2.0::Gateway"/>
<Stereotype name="InclusiveGateway" notes="" cx="121" cy="70" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0" generalizes="BPMN2.0::Gateway" baseStereotypes="BPMN2.0::Gateway"/>
<Stereotype name="ParallelGateway" notes="" cx="121" cy="70" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0" generalizes="BPMN2.0::Gateway" baseStereotypes="BPMN2.0::Gateway"/>
<Stereotype name="CustomActivity" notes="" cx="121" cy="70" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0" generalizes="BPMN2.0::Activity" baseStereotypes="BPMN2.0::Activity"/>
<Stereotype name="MyEndEvent" notes="" cx="121" cy="70" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0" generalizes="BPMN2.0::EndEvent" baseStereotypes="BPMN2.0::EndEvent"/>
<Stereotype name="MyIntermediateEvent" notes="" cx="163" cy="70" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0" generalizes="BPMN2.0::IntermediateEvent" baseStereotypes="BPMN2.0::IntermediateEvent"/>
<Stereotype name="MyStartEvent" notes="" cx="121" cy="70" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" borderwidth="-1" hideicon="0" generalizes="BPMN2.0::StartEvent" baseStereotypes="BPMN2.0::StartEvent"/>You see there is no difference at all between the events and other elements, so I don't get why it is not working.

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General Board / Re: UML Types for Standard BPMN 2.0 stereotypes

« on: July 14, 2015, 04:30:34 pm »

The following article might help you to get at start: http://community.sparxsystems.com/tutorials/552-24intro-to-creating-a-mdg-file

q.

Hi Qwerty,

thanks for your help with this. I allready got most things done, but i got stuck again.
I extended sterotypes for the bpmn2.0 Activity, all kind of gateways etc. That's working fine.

But when I try to extend Events (Start, Intermediate and End) I neither can drag and drop the items from the toolbox nore can I see the inherited Icon of their "parentshape" in the toolbox.

You know if there are any issues with those items? Because I've done it the same way as I did it with the other sterotypes and for them it works fine... :-/

Regards,
Eric

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General Board / Re: UML Types for Standard BPMN 2.0 stereotypes

« on: July 10, 2015, 05:29:17 pm »

Hi,

okay. So I'll just going to extend those stereotypes I need.

Thanks for your help guys. I really appreciate your help!

Regards,
Eric

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General Board / Re: UML Types for Standard BPMN 2.0 stereotypes

« on: July 09, 2015, 05:23:23 pm »

Eric,

It may be that you can only extend the BPMN stereotypes with your own stereotypes, not replace a BPMN stereotype with yours.

(unless you modify the MDG technology file for BPMN I guess)

Geert

Hi Geert,

okay, I was afraid of this, but if there is no other way, I'll have to do it this way.

Thanks for your reply!

Regards,
Eric

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General Board / Re: UML Types for Standard BPMN 2.0 stereotypes

« on: July 09, 2015, 04:36:06 pm »

Hi there,

once again me. In the EA-User Guide i found a page named "Create Stereotypes Extending non-UML Objects".
There is expained how to extend those elements - with huge effort on creating a profil and so on and so forth.

-> Do I really have to create a own profile, extend those BPMN sterotypes I want to adjust and provide this to our users?

I mean, as qwerty wrote, I suggest it's possible to change the "standard" shape of those elements, without doing so...

Regards,
Eric

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General Board / Re: UML Types for Standard BPMN 2.0 stereotypes

« on: July 09, 2015, 04:01:25 pm »

Hi qwerty,

thank you for your response.
I tried as you suggested with following combinations:
Stereotype: "BPMN2.0::Gateway"
Group name: ""
Base Class : "<all>" / "event"
Notes: ""

My shapescript looks as followed:

shape main
{
      SetFillColor(240,0,0);
      DrawParentShape();
      Rectangle(10,10,50,50);
}
I just added the Rectangle to see directly if some shapes are affected - but this doesn't affect any kind of Gateway that I place into the diagram.

Am I doing something wrong, or do I have to make some changes in the settings probably?

Regards,
Eric

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General Board / UML Types for Standard BPMN 2.0 stereotypes

« on: July 08, 2015, 09:18:51 pm »

Hi there,

i got problems with setting shape scripts for standard stereotypes of a BPMN2.0 Diagram.

What I want is quite simple (Gateways as example should get another color, should be smaller etc. - should be easy to achieve with shape scripts - at least this is what I tought)

In UML Types (Settings - UML Types) I want to override the shape for Gateways e.g.

I tryed Stereotype: "Gateway" as well as "BPMN2.0::Gateway" and also "UML:Gateway". (Base class i nearly tried every one that makes scence, as I think)
Unfortunately any of those one's work (I think the shapescript is alright)

Is this even possible, or will I have to implement own stereotypes for this to achieve?

Regards,
Eric

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Bugs and Issues / Re: HTML Report | DiagramNotes Shape | Author Bug

« on: July 15, 2015, 04:03:40 pm »

Hi,

are there any other suggestions?

Regards,
Eric

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Bugs and Issues / Re: HTML Report | DiagramNotes Shape | Author Bug

« on: July 09, 2015, 03:48:59 pm »

Hi Doubled,

thanks for your response.
I'm afraid I already did this. You are right, the #author# tag beeing removed will do this in at a few positions, but the shape in the diagram is not effected by this. This is generated as a picture, and the "diagram notes" shape contains the author aswell.

I am afraid this is no solution for my problem.  :-/

Regards,
Eric

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Bugs and Issues / HTML Report | DiagramNotes Shape | Author Bug

« on: July 08, 2015, 07:57:31 pm »

Hi there,

I got issues with the html report:

What I want to do is create a html report, what works quite fine.
But there is a request for me that I need to implement: No authors are allowed to be shown in diagrams etc.
So what I did is writing an addin, which temporally removes those information from shapes, diagrams and adjusted the web template.

All fine till here.

Diagrams get exported as kind of an image - so those "common - diagram notes" shapes, which get filled with information with
"Name, AUthor, Version, Created and Updated" automatically need to be adjusted. Since I can't remove them, because I can't say for sure which Diagramobject is the right shape - I set the diagram.Author to String.Empty, which should work fine. (And it does - if i reopen the diagram after I changed it by the plugin, without changing back, the author is empty). The "Author: xxx" part of the diagram notes shape is empty now too.
BUT: In the html report the author is still exported with the name of the "creator". I can even change the author in EA's diagram option window itself, and there will still be the person exported in the html report, which created the diagram in first place.

-> Is this a known bug? Because no matter what I try to change the author (and which get's shown in the diagram correctly), the report will always show the original creator of the shape.

Regards,
Eric

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Load Addin only for a certain repository

« on: September 22, 2015, 05:08:17 pm »

Hey Aaron,

thank you very much for you fast reply.
Yes I thought so. I might check the connectionstring as you said, save it to a static variable and just return from events fired by EA if we are in the wrong state.

Well thank you again,
If someone else has an idea - I'll still check the thread in time

Regards,
Eric

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Load Addin only for a certain repository

« on: September 22, 2015, 04:38:26 pm »

Hi dudes and dudines  

I have a requirement and I got no idea how to realize it. The search in .chm and the forum didn't change this issue.

My problem is following: In the company, some users are working on different repositories (Oracle DBs). The Add-In I developed is quite spezialized and though I know it shouldn't it might crash if it is used in the wrong repository (some special guid's missing etc.) ...

So what I want to do is deativate the Add-In if an different repository is opened.

I had something in mind like developing an 2nd Addin, which could listen to project opened or something like this and deativate the actual Add-In.

I am afraid I can't find a method or something similar to deativate an running Add-In.

Some ideas?

Best Regards,
Eric