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Suggestions and Requests / Re: RTF Filters/Conditionals

« on: September 07, 2006, 03:41:54 am »

I absolutely join the request!  
Even if I am a EA newbie I have spent years (since '99) of doc template "carving" with other UML tools and I find really unpleasant the lack of this feature.

Ale

P.S.: I've downloaded the latest release (6.5.797) and now my rtf templates do not generate anything else than the first page... Have anyone any idea about it? Thank you!

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

« on: September 25, 2006, 06:56:06 am »

I've joined a similar request some time ago. I can only share with you that I've bypassed this "bug" through a bulky set of Word macros (don't ask me for them: I'm sure you'll be able to do them by yourself better than me!!!) that manipulate a tag that I've put in the template.

I've put in the template, as part of an element title, something like <parent: element.ParentPackage> and the macro use it to recurse backward to find the heading level of the parent package and set the current title heading level accordingly. Not smart but effective.

Honestly, I would like a lot to have something similar written natively in EA.

Ale

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General Board / Re: Configuring EA Version Control for TFS

« on: April 12, 2010, 08:19:38 pm »

Ok. It seems it works now. Do not ask me what's different. I've simply toyed some times with the select button for the Working Copy Path (changing the folder every time) and eventually the Save button enabled itself...  

Everything is well when it ends well (we say this in Italy).

Thank you Geert.

Alessandro

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General Board / Re: Configuring EA Version Control for TFS

« on: April 12, 2010, 08:08:50 pm »

And you do have enough security privileges in EA?

I'm wondering if it's a problem for EA that the credentials to log in TFS are not the same credentials to use Windows. It was not for VSS.

Alessandro

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General Board / Re: Configuring EA Version Control for TFS

« on: April 12, 2010, 08:02:33 pm »

And you do have enough security privileges in EA?

I've set up this a couple of times at different machines, and I've never had any issues like that.

Geert

Thank you Geert. Currently we do not have security enabled in EA.
I've been using EA for several years and I've configured several times version control for Visual Source Safe, without having problems.

What's strange is that when I select the Working Copy Path, I would expect to see Server Name and Workspace Name fields setting with the actual names. Instead they remain blank (and disabled).

Moreover, if I set the Unique ID field first, when I move to enter values in the other fields it blanks.

Does this give you other hints?

Thank you anyway!
Alessandro

P.S.: I've by mistake selected "Was I helpful: No" in one of your previous post   ; I've then selected "Was I helpful: Yes" to balance it...   :-/
I'm not used to give this kind of feedback. Is it for the post or for the person?

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General Board / Re: Configuring EA Version Control for TFS

« on: April 12, 2010, 07:31:51 pm »

Yes, I've given it a name. But the button keeps disabled.

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General Board / Configuring EA Version Control for TFS

« on: April 12, 2010, 07:28:58 pm »

Hi all.

I've followed the instructions from the on-line tutorial and I've created a new Team Project in TFS. I've also associated a local workspace to it.

Just to double check it, if I launch "tf get" from command line a login box prompts to get credentials to access the server; after successful logon, it appears that the contents of my new team project are got from server to the local folder I've set in TFS workspace.

Then I turn to EA and I select TFS radio button; I fill in the local folder above; I fill in user and password, and...

...then? I would expect to see the Save button enabling. Instead it keeps disabled. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

Alessandro

P.S.: I've also checked that the field for the path to TFS command line facility is correctly filled in: it points to TF.EXE.

P.P.S.: I've also filled in a name for the settings.

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General Board / Re: Overriding default stereotypes icons

« on: September 21, 2006, 01:08:14 am »

Ok, I try:
1 - in Settings/UML/Stereotypes I select <<business actor>> (the one that applies to actor)
2 - in the Override Appearance I select Shape Script radio button and press Assign
3 - I open the help through the help button of the Shape Script editor and copy/paste the Basic Shape code example (first entry in the list of Shape examples)
4 - Now I see the preview in the editor! Yesterday I did not...

Ok, it works. I do not understand. I've just repeated the very same steps...

Thank you anyway, as you've made me find that everything is ok!
Ale

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General Board / Overriding default stereotypes icons

« on: September 20, 2006, 08:09:23 am »

I'm using EA 6.5.797 and I've written a Shape Script that overrides the default image for a <<business actor>> (it's for test: I'm acquainting with this seemingly powerful feature of EA).

I've simply copied an example (the first one) from the help docs in the Shape Scripts editor, but I keep seeing business actors the usual way.

What seems odd is that the previews both in the Editor and in the stereotype dialog do not show anything, neither the default image nor my brand new shape.

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
TIA
Ale

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Uml Process / Re: Multiple entries in UML types list

« on: December 05, 2009, 05:00:08 am »

I have to partially amend what I've written above. But the substance is not different.
I first gave the stereotype "time" to one actor in the model and I used it in some diagrams.
Then I decided to assign an image to that stereotype. So I choosed it in the list of UML Types and I assigned to it the icon. This operation, instead of adding the icon to the existing stereotype, added a duplicated stereotype for the same base class (actor) giving to both the new icon.
Is there any way to amend it without resorting to clean the actors by the assigned stereotypes, deleting the duplicated stereotypes and then assigning again to the actors?

Thank you in advance.
Alessandro

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Uml Process / Multiple entries in UML types list

« on: December 05, 2009, 04:42:38 am »

Hi all

I'm using EA7.5 Corporate Edition. Through the Settings/UML Types panel I've simply defined a new stereotype, time, to be applied to actor elements; and I've linked a image (wmf) depicting a chronograph. This operation adds two entries in the list. After this operation, then, there are three "time" entries: one is preexisting, keyed to guielement elements; and two more are now visible to be applied to actor elements. Both of the latter ones have the very same icon, the chronograph above.
Repeating this operation obtains the very same results (adding two items in the list instead of only one).

At first, apart from considering it a weird behaviour, I did not find any problems with it. I'm writing here because, instead, it seems that this duplication impairs the Data Management/Project Transfer functionality: it finds errors in the model because it finds duplicated keyes on display elements.

The question is: how can I remove the double entries? Or, at least, how can I add (stereotypes and) icons to stereotypes without having this strange behavior?

Thank you in advance!
Alessandro

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Uml Process / Re: Which diagram is best to present system flow?

« on: September 29, 2006, 05:39:34 am »

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The best solution would seem to be, place UCs on an Activity diagram and use this to show the workflow (I am meaning at a Cockburn sea level here, the detail is within the UCs). This all seems well but I cannot use any flow associations as it is not UML compliant.

Any ideas how to get around this, or is there a much more appropriate way to represent what I am trying to represent?

Thanks, Colin

Have you tried using dependencies with <<flow>> stereotype? They can be drawn between use cases and beteween a use case and either an activity or an object.

Ale