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Suggestions and Requests / EA crash when losing network connectivity.

« on: January 24, 2005, 09:49:21 am »

Steps to reproduce:

connect to a SQLServer2000 repository
unplug network access
plug back in. (after 1-2 minutes)
try to save work in progress.

You receive:

Microsoft OLEDB Provider for SQL Server -2147467259
Connection Failure.

Then

EA has experienced a network error and will close down.

Then

The instruction at X referenced memeory at 0x00..004 Click ok to terminate (GPF)

This is not good if using a wireless adapter!

Michael

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Suggestions and Requests / Embedded images not exported compressed

« on: January 19, 2005, 11:07:42 am »

I noticed that even if i select .JPG in the export to RTF dialog, the exported file is as big as it would be if i chose an uncompressed image format.

We wanted to include wireframes inline for some diagrams, but if they take up more than a meg a picture, this is not feasible.

Thanks!

Michael

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General Board / Re: All packages have lost Version Control setting

« on: August 04, 2005, 07:00:57 am »

Vault integration used to be not so good (used to have to manually check in and out in vault client), but in recent releases, it has gotten much better.

That being said, I don't think they test Vault source control with each new release, so you may run into problems when you install client patches.

BTW, I received an email from support on this issue and the patch will be in build 769.

Michael

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General Board / Re: All packages have lost Version Control setting

« on: July 21, 2005, 11:15:13 am »

We're using SourceGear's Vault Version Control Software.

Right now we have around 30 packages in about 5 configurations, it's a pain to have to reconnect them when this happens (only twice so far).

Hopefully someone can figure out why this is happening.

Michael

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General Board / Re: All packages have lost Version Control setting

« on: July 20, 2005, 06:47:22 am »

Thanks for the response Rob,

That may have been possible but I just tried the upgrade and it did not remove my re-connected packages....

If anyone knows where this setting is kept (I checked the t_package table and it does not seem to be kept there), please let me know.

Michael

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General Board / All packages have lost Version Control setting!

« on: July 19, 2005, 01:11:27 pm »

Hello all,

This is the second time this has happened, where for some unkown reason, all packages under source control suddenly have their 'Version Control' dropdown set to (None).

It was working perfectly for months up until last week and now twice inside of 6 days.... Any idea of what could cause this? At first I thought someone deleted and recreated all version configs, but now this is not likely as I warned them not to touch this area of EA.

Any ideas? Where is this information stored (I am running the respository off of SQL Server)

Thanks!

Michael

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General Board / Re: Database import without deleting existing tabl

« on: August 11, 2005, 05:46:48 am »

Until something better comes along our current woraround is to not associate directly to a table, but to a boundary element instead. We will still have to make sure that any reimported tables are put back into the boundary, but at least we will not lose our associations.

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General Board / Re: Database import without deleting existing tabl

« on: August 11, 2005, 05:10:16 am »

When you import tables over top of existing ones, the action taken is to delete the tables, then re-create them from the database schema.

In our current design, we these tables pulled into diagrams where we show interactions with the tables in question. On re-import, those tables and links need to be recreated, which is a pain.

I was looking for suggestions on how to import a database table in a way that does not delete and recreate the table itself, or a way to 'fill' an existing table with all the attributes and operations from the imported table.

Thanks,

Michael

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General Board / Database import without deleting existing tables?

« on: August 09, 2005, 02:37:53 pm »

Does anyone know how this can be done. We use the imported tables alot in our design, and it is giving us fits to have to re-create the associations when we re-import a table.

Thanks!

Michael

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General Board / Problems with using Classes for DataDictionaries

« on: June 01, 2005, 11:04:41 am »

Hello All,

I have been recording data dictionary information as follows:

Class - Data dictionary (User)
Attribute - Data Element (User Name)
Constraint  - Properties/Business Rules of Data Elements (no spaces, etc)

Anyway these classes are getting huge, with over 100 attributes each with their set of constraints. Maintaining this is getting tedious and it's staring to look like excel is better.

Does anyone have a different approach to recording a data dictionary, or even processes that would make entry any easier (via automation perhaps?)

Thanks,

Michael

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General Board / How do I create a link to a database repository?

« on: January 17, 2005, 10:27:19 am »

Hi all,

Is there a way to create this link  (like test.lnk) maybe something in the command line?

How is the db connection info stored on the client?

(I'm using the 744 build, corporate edition)

Thanks in advance,

Michael

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General Board / Re: Possible to paste external image to diagram

« on: January 18, 2005, 01:46:37 pm »

Excellent, works very well.

Thank you,

Michael

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General Board / Possible to paste external image to diagram

« on: January 18, 2005, 11:46:37 am »

Does anyone know a way to import an image into EA? I would like to have the generated report to include these.

Thanks in advance,

Michael Polo

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Can automation load a database repository?

« on: February 11, 2005, 10:58:23 am »

Well whaddya know?

Worked well,

now to turn the sample word doc creator into a console app...

Thanks!

Michael

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Can automation load a database repository?

« on: February 10, 2005, 03:33:29 pm »

LoadProject and Repository.OpenFile seem to only refer to .EAP files, is loading a DB repository possible? I'd like to use the word document creation samples.

Thanks in advance,

Michael