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Suggestions and Requests / I concur

« on: September 19, 2006, 01:57:01 am »

This requested feature would be very, very neat.

PS. The latest EA v6.5.797 seem to be very sloooow in generating RTF documents...? DS.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: New RTF Generator - templates and heading leve

« on: August 31, 2006, 12:02:01 am »

I got a very fast and informative response from Sparx regarding the subject, which I'd like to share with you, since I think more than myself are interested in this.

From Sparx Support:

Thanks for passing this on, however the cause of this is due to the style in a new template not being defined.  It can be useful if you are wanting to use another Normal.rtf definition but it may not support the heading styles.

The best process for creating a new template is to copy an existing template and remove the text and Header Footer and use this as the base
template.   That way you can ensure the styles are correctly defined.

In terms of exporting out to Word and modifying a template - we don't recommend this - it is best you keep the template as the base and import text etc. from the Word onto this base template.

Regarding Nested Headings we have not provided direct support for this on the grounds that given the depth of nesting that can occur in a normal repository, the nesting on the page would easily be exceeded at an early stage - so we have kept the nesting to user defined but fixed nesting.

For more information on setting up the Normal.RTF see the whitepaper on RTF document "Document Generation" in: http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/resources/whitepapers/index.html

I hope this is of help.

Regards,
Mikael

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: New RTF Generator - templates and heading leve

« on: August 30, 2006, 05:08:29 am »

I reported this as a bug to Sparx.

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Suggestions and Requests / New RTF Generator - templates and heading levels

« on: August 30, 2006, 04:57:28 am »

Heading levels do not work (as indicated by lots of other posters), i.e. nested packages do not generate nested headings in a generated RTF document.

This is a very serious drawback.

It does work when the pre-defined [basic] template is used, but it does not work when a new empty template is created from scratch, or when a working template (such as the [basic]) is exported and manipulated in MS Word and imported back.

Request:
Please correct this, and make it possible to
a) build a working template from scratch, and
b) allow export-import via use of MS Word
and generate nested packages as nested headings in the new RTF generator.

(I am using EA 6.1.792)
Thanks for reading,
Mikael Relbe
Combitech AB
Sweden

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Suggestions and Requests / Curvy lines a la Rhapsody

« on: December 16, 2005, 04:08:51 am »

I wish I could make curvy lines as in Rhapsody...
/Mikael

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General Board / Re: Bookmark searching

« on: August 30, 2006, 05:02:43 am »

The current version, 6.1.792, still does not support searching for bookmarked elements, or am I missing something?

Mikael

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General Board / Re: Bookmark searching

« on: December 16, 2005, 02:48:43 am »

I've been using EA 4.5 for some time, and downloaded EA 6.0 yesterday(!). The bookmark function is all new to me, and I am therefore uncertain of whether there is a bug, or if there is something I don't understand. Please, could some guru check this?

Regards,
Mikael

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General Board / Re: Bookmark searching

« on: December 16, 2005, 01:56:23 am »

Anyone?

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General Board / Re: Links Bent vs. Straight

« on: December 16, 2005, 02:51:37 am »

If I may make a wish, I would like to have the possibility to make curvy lines as in Rhapsody...
/Mikael

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Bugs and Issues / Re: "File sharing lock count exceeded [3052]"

« on: November 11, 2010, 09:43:11 pm »

I think, as a "Big Corporate Company citizen" you should really not be using MS-Access at all, but migrate to a "real" database.

Thanks for you feedback, Geert. However, being a "Big Corporate Company citizen" also means, in this case, that we have limited abilities in what we can do... which excludes centralized SQL-based model repos...

But still, shouldn't EA prevent file sharing lock count exceeded, anyone?

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Bugs and Issues / "File sharing lock count exceeded [3052]"

« on: November 09, 2010, 10:07:40 pm »

Hi

I have a fairly large EAP project file connected to several models that are put into SVN version control.

However, when I execute "Update All to Latest" I get tons of error messages: "File sharing lock count exceeded [3052]"

This originates from the Jet database engine used by EA, and Microsoft proposes that number of file locks is increased by doing a registry hack (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815281).

However, being a Big Corporate Company citizen at the moment, I am not allowed to even think about touching the registry...

I have two questions:
1. Shouldn't EA prevent this error from happening?
2. What can I do, without editing the registry?

Thanks in advance for you feedback!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Automation using Python?

« on: February 08, 2011, 06:33:06 pm »

I would like to generate highly customizable reports; scripting will be needed. I do not want to access the SQL directly, nor do I want to use the inbuilt VB script engine in EA, since reports shall be generated as a background process (triggered by SVN commits) and published on wiki pages (Trac).

I cannot find any information about accessing EA programmatically via Python.

Does anyone know if it is possible to use the automation interface using Python?