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General Board / BPMN 2.0 default line style changed in EA

« on: April 15, 2015, 11:49:45 pm »

Hello,

Since a few days the default line style in our BPMN 2.0 diagrams seem to have changed from "Orthogonal - Rounded" to "Custom Line" when drawing a Sequence Flow between 2 Activities in our company EA project.

When I create a new empty EA project everything works alright (it uses the Orthogonal - Rounded style again. So it seems to be a project setting, only I cannot find where and how to change this back to the default line style.

I am using EA 11.0.1107.

Does anyone have any idea how the default line style for BPMN diagrams could have changed and how I can change it back to Orthogonal - Rounded?

Btw, I do not mean how to change it for a single line (I Know how to do that) but how to change the default setting for a EA project.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Generating daily HTML report of entire reposit

« on: April 12, 2013, 09:41:09 pm »

Hello Stoppy,

Dit you get this to work already? I am having the same problem. When I have the "Run only when user is logged on" flag turned on in the Windows (2008) scheduler everything works fine. When I turn this off the application seem to get stuck. No output, nothing and the task doesn't end either.

Regards,
MBrandt

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the reply.

It is definately not item number 2.

I am not a techie, but if you could supply some reference documents/sites or further details for item 1 this would be appreciated.

Regards,

Stoppy

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Problems using Windows scheduler running EA ta

« on: April 19, 2013, 09:27:30 pm »

Hello, thank you both for answering.

Yes I did try the OpenFile2 but that did not help either, I also tried opening a EA SQL database instead of an .eap file by passing it the SQL connection string but also without any luck.

I found the following document when following up Geert's option: http://www.lieberlieber.com/fileadmin/user_upload/White_Paper/2012-1.0-Publication-EA-as-an-unattended-Windows-Service-on-Windows-Server-2008R2-and-high.pdf

Perhaps I can get something to work from that explanation (I am trying that right now).

At least it made me think that Windows is probably trying to launch the EA.exe under the "Local System" account instead of the account I specify in the Task Scheduler. The pdf above mentions a "trick" to activate an EA license key for the "Local Account" user (which I am gonna try now).

I keep you posted if this fixes my problem.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Problems using Windows scheduler running EA ta

« on: April 19, 2013, 06:59:54 pm »

Thanks for the quick response qwerty. I did search a lot of the threads but could not find a solution (perhaps I did not search good enough). When you specify the option "Run whether user is logged on or not" you get a prompt dialogue for a user+password so I assume that will be the user the scheduled task is using when I am not logged on.

I assume a lot of people who are using EA are using the same kind of techniques (generating stuff from a model) without being logged on while doing so. So I expect there must be a way to schedule EA automation jobs to run at night without users needing to be logged on.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Problems using Windows scheduler running EA tasks

« on: April 19, 2013, 05:39:25 pm »

Hello,

I have the following problem. I wrote a small C# program to generate HTML reports from our EA database. This program works perfectly when I run it manually from my machine (or any other PC in the network). Now I want to run it each night using the standard Windows (2008R2) scheduler.

In the settings of a scheduled task there are 2 options: 1. "Run only when user is logged on" and 2. "Run whether user is logged on or not". When I pick the first option everything is still working fine, but when I switch to option 2. the process does start (I can even see an EA.exe process in the task manager) but then nothing happens. The process seems to get stuck or wait for something (perhaps it has something to do with the EA license?).

I am using EA 10 with a floating license installed on a network server. I am sure no one else is using EA when I run my tests. I run both the option 1. and option 2. test multiple times from the same machine and option 1. works every time and option 2. never works.

Ahyone having a suggestion on what can cause this problem?