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Suggestions and Requests / HTML-Report-Features

« on: June 14, 2006, 12:14:05 am »

Hello

I’ve just done a very first simple EA-Project and I want to add some points, I’ve missed. Let me begin with some points of the html-Report.

• You have to insert an output-data-path. There a “Web-Site” will be generated.
  
  • It is very much better to store the css and js-files into a separate directory too. Normally, in the main directory there should be a file (<projectname>.html and not index.html)
    
  • I’ve added attachments to some use-cases. These have been organized in a sub path of my EA-Project-Path and normally this path structure should be added into this web-site too. It is very difficult to place it into the root directory. Your customer has 20 files in the root or more and is looking for “index.html” – always.
    
  
  
• You can define your own styles and this is a very interesting idea, because the web-site itself is something “non transparent” and difficult (It is somewhat better to reduce it to a two-frame-solution instead of a three-frame-solution. I want do this, but the freedom is restricted hardly because
  
  • You cannot import or export a HTML-style. All changes are restricted onto one project.
    
  • Complex code generations are produced in one step.
    
    • A label can only be generated by “#name#” and produces “<a href="../../../ Attachment.jpg">D:\pathOfAttachment\ Attachment.jpg</a>”. This is something difficult, if you send the complete web-site-folder to someone else. This person will not have a path “D:\pathOfAttachment”.
      
    • The generation of pictures is encapsulated too. So a picture “EA11.png” is created. Why don’t you use “usecaseName.png” here? Furthermore I do not see any possibility to handle the constructions of the img-entry and the map-entries.
      

Up to now, these are the points, which make it difficult to use the html-report (my opinion).

Best regards
Wolfgang

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General Board / Re: Easy way to change requirement status?

« on: December 15, 2010, 06:48:14 pm »

There is a sort of way round the inability to select elements and then apply a change to the selection. ...

In my version of EA (8.0.63) it does not work. The last step changes the properties of the package itself but not the properties of the elements inside the package.

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General Board / A strange problem using the "generate html report"

« on: December 15, 2010, 05:05:22 am »

Hello

I've a very strange problem by using this routine.

• I open project-1 generate a report and store it on a web space. A group of users have access to the example.lan\demo\
• I delete the complete entry, that meas: I delete the report directory on my drive and I delete the directory on the webserver.
• I create both directories again
• I open project-2 generate a different report and store it on the same web space wich can be accessed by example.lan\demo\ too.
• The group of browsers who has visited the project-1 first and project-2 have a "mixed report" on their side. It seems that some files will be stored in the browser cache.

Actually I do not know if it is a problem of EA (Version 8.0.863), the Web-Server (Apache) or the Browser (Firefox. So I have to start somewhere. Do you have any Ideas to handle such a problem?

Thanks for any help and best regards.

Wolfgang

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General Board / Re: Problems by converting a php-project

« on: May 06, 2007, 10:08:06 pm »

Thank your very much. Can you send me an answer if it works - an answer in this thread or a pn?

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General Board / Re: Problems by converting a php-project

« on: May 06, 2007, 05:36:20 pm »

Oh - I've found my previous Username.

Wolfgang

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General Board / Re: Notes of a dialog are not added to html..

« on: June 15, 2006, 12:57:34 am »

This bug has been reported, or shall I do this? - Sorry, I've forgotten to ask it.

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General Board / Re: Notes of a dialog are not added to html..

« on: June 12, 2006, 11:27:12 am »

Thanks - ok, it may be a bug, but I don't finde the templates for code like ...

Code: [Select]


<img src="EA78.png" usemap="#EA78" border="0">
 <map name="EA78"><area shape="rect" coords="25,25,823,539" href="EA90.htm">
</map>


And furthermore: It seems to be impossible to export the templates into a file or to move it into an other document?

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General Board / Notes of a dialog are not added to html..

« on: June 12, 2006, 10:54:12 am »

Hello

I've a small problem. The note-field of a dialog isn't added to the html-documentation of a modell

My diagram-template looks like

Code: [Select]


<table cellPadding=2 cellSpacing=2 width="100%">
 <tbody>
<tr>
<td class=ObjectTitle>
#TYPE# diagram: #NAME#
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table class=ObjectDetails cellPadding=2 cellSpacing=2 width="100%">
 <tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="100%" class=ObjectDetailsTopic>#NOTE#</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;#NOTES#</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


But either NOTE not NOTES works.

Can you help me?

Thanks
Best regards
Wolfgang

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General Board / Re: Importing Access-forms to EA User Inferfaces?

« on: June 08, 2006, 12:25:17 pm »

What am I looking for in the picture? Are you showing me the other elements, but not the Tab control?

Yes, I think that you know a tab-control and its topologie. Furthermore it is imposible to show in in one picture. A dialog - independently of its basic programming language - should handle this structures. That ist the most important functionality of the gui-diagram.

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General Board / Re: Importing Access-forms to EA User Inferfaces?

« on: June 08, 2006, 11:32:54 am »

Hello David

>  You'd probably have to open up the diagram via the automation API and enumerate the diagram objects. From each you could retrieve the size and position. That might be enough.

Sorry that isn't enough. A tab-control has a topological structure different from a group or a user-control. I've added a little demo for a dialog-topologie (http://applikationssoftware.de/Sonstiges/TopologieDemo.jpg). If EA cannot handle this structure you cannot use it for dialogs.

Best regards
Wolfgang

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General Board / Re: Importing Access-forms to EA User Inferfaces?

« on: June 08, 2006, 10:13:01 am »

Hello David

> Sounds like you have an interesting project.

It's my first EA-project and it should be a small demo of possibilities. So I try to put the maximum amount of information to EA before starting a project by a first MDL-conversion step.

And refering to the iconix-process, it seems to be a good idea to complete a program design with some guis.

> As to the rest, I wonder if you could somehow make use of an XMI export from EA.

I've exported the xmi-data of a form. But I'm missing some topological informations. A form contains a group and this group contains a set of radio-buttons. Then you have a tab control with n-tab-areas and each tab-area contains further elements. XMI is only a listing of all elements in a diagram without any structure.

It seems the best to use a screenshoot in Word.

Thank you very much for your hints.
Best Regards
Wolfgang

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General Board / Re: Importing Access-forms to EA User Inferfaces?

« on: June 08, 2006, 07:29:05 am »

Hello

Thanks for that information. In the first time it should be a better idea, to convert thoose data manually. This are only three dialogs.

But there are furthermore some problems

a) The UI-controls placed onto a form are moveable in the complete diagram area and not only in the screen area.

b) The tab-control does not work like a tab-control in c#, java or VB. It is only a rectangle.

The idea is to use EA as a gui-store. The date should be used to generate either a c#-dialog-class or a java-dialog-class just like the decision for developement language in future forces to use.

But I do not see any MDL-Export for user interface isn't it?

So the problem ist: Not only the import/export has some problems, the infrastructure in EA does not exist.

Do you know any other tool to store GUI-Data language independed?

Thanks for any help
Wolfgang

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General Board / Importing Access-forms to EA User Inferfaces?

« on: June 08, 2006, 03:07:05 am »

Hello

I want to import some access-forms into the EA. Does anyone know the proper Access-Export and EA-import parameters to do it?

Thanks for any help
Wolfgang

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General Board / Get all classes which calls a member of class x?

« on: May 26, 2006, 12:52:44 pm »

Hello

Let's assume, that I have a project containing 100 Classes. One of them x.cls should only be used by an other one y.cls and not directly.

Is it possible to search for thoose classes and mark them?

Thank you for any help.
Wolfgang

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General Board / Re: Deutsche Benutzergruppe

« on: May 20, 2006, 11:06:58 am »

> Was habe ich gerade mit: "I ACCEPT" bestätigt?

Das du in den kommenden 3 Jahren das Deutsche Rote Kreuz mit 100 Euro im Monat unterstützt.

SCNR ...