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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Potential override other users' work in share

« on: February 04, 2008, 06:09:16 am »

Hi Tuan,
If one user has the package checked out, then the other users see this. I've only looked into shared mode for basic EAP access, but shared mode means that all users access the same file and the underlying database deals with concurrency. "Get Latest" is greyed out if the package has been checked out. Surely "Get All Latest" bypasses any checked out packages?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Sequence Diagrams

« on: January 30, 2008, 05:53:19 am »

Yep, it would be handy.
I usually copy the diagram and then remove the unwanted messages, which is easier than recreating from scratch.
(beware about things like notes though - they look like copies, but they're not! it's the same note, i.e. edit one and the other is changed automagically).

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Suggestions and Requests / Default scope? (818)

« on: November 05, 2007, 05:10:56 pm »

Hi,
If I create a new element of type class and stereotype as 'enumeration', the the scope is defaulted to public for all elements (cool). However, if I stereotype to 'type'/'struct', then the default scope is private. I think it would be great if 'type'/'struct' could also default to public. Maybe it's just a standard thing for C++ I dunno.

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General Board / Re: 7.1 beta feedback

« on: January 30, 2008, 05:21:51 am »

Been waiting for a long while for this one. So far I like quite a lot of the new features and it fixes a number of the bugs that I raised. However, I have noticed a few new bugs already and wonder if there is a means of reporting bugs for the beta - after all isn't that the point of a beta?
I'm not knocking Sparx, I just want to help improve the product !

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General Board / Re: Filters in Document Options

« on: February 06, 2008, 08:57:28 am »

Hi Tony,
I've just tried this with version 7.0.818 and it seems to work fine?
I created a few requirements set status of one to Approved, then made another a composite element and opened that and created more requirements and so on. I then opened the search dialogue, selected options->advanced and then 'Add filter'. Checked [Status], selected [isEqualTo], typed Approved, Checked [Required] and then ran the search. Only the approved requirements were listed as expected. HTH

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General Board / Re: Exporting items based on a theme

« on: January 31, 2008, 09:53:19 am »

Hi,
Not my area, but I wondered if you could just run a search and gather all of your requirements by refining that, then copy results to clipboard and pasting to spreadsheet.
Nasty, but may work for you? you could even generate a report based on those search results to possibly extract further information.

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General Board / Re: generate sequence diagrams possible?

« on: February 05, 2008, 08:31:19 am »

No. not statically as far as I know.
However,I believe it is possible to run executable code and EA will generate the sequence diagrams from observing the dynamic behaviour, but I haven't played with that aspect meyself.

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General Board / Re: updateable diagrams in Linked Documents ??

« on: January 31, 2008, 03:58:04 am »

Hi Bernd,
I don't think there's any way to have an active link to diagrams, so you'll always need to process something to generate an updated doc.
I spent quite some time trying to massage the rtf output into something I could use, but just couldn't get it to suit my needs. I've recently been using the automation interface, which provides the possibility of a completely customisable output, for example only show state diagrams, only print diagrams with a particular tag, etc.
The new version (7.1) has a little more enhanced handling of rtf documents with the concept of a master document, but I think I'll be sticking with the automation interface - I'm very impressed by how easy and quick it is to generate something useful.

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General Board / Re: Stereotypes for actors possible?

« on: January 31, 2008, 06:04:51 am »

This is all a bit confusing?
I don't think it's possible to change the appearence of elements for sequence diagrams, other than selecting one of those provided. This was the subject of a recent thread I believe.
I've just tested this and the "use rectangle notation" is available for a class diagram context, but not a sequence diagram.

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General Board / Re: Find out usage of methods in sequence charts

« on: January 31, 2008, 06:15:40 am »

Hmmm,
To me it looks like EA allows you to select a method for a message flow and then stores the relavent text. So, updating the method doesn't lead to an update of the diagram (the link has to be manually 'refreshed').
I don't think the simple search tool in EA will pick up message text. You could use either the underlying database or the automation interface to programmatically search, but the result would be purely a text comparison as there is no link between the method and its use in the message (so this is perhaps a little dangerous).
HTH

Gary

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General Board / Re: Handling of Classes Not Found During Import

« on: December 05, 2007, 03:56:35 am »

Ok. Plan B
I just tried to import and there's an option in "remove classes not found in code" to "prompt for action". After selecting this and setting the delete options previously discussed (all checked) - I got the dialogue when trying to forward engineer (model->src). Funnily trying to reverse engineer (src->model) seemed to have no effect - missing classes were ignored.
I would guess that the "prompt for action" option must get stored and used in sync (as it isn't required for an import?) - Maybe this helps? sorry I can't help further, but this isn't something I'm using at the moment.

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General Board / Re: Handling of Classes Not Found During Import

« on: December 05, 2007, 02:00:18 am »

Not doing this myself, but perhaps look at options -> source code engineering -> attribute / operations. Maybe deselecting the delete on sync will enable the dialog? just a guess really

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General Board / Re: Newbie guide

« on: December 17, 2007, 08:58:02 pm »

As for UML, try OMG? www.omg.org (http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/07-02-05.pdf)
More of a reference than a user guide though (a bit like Stroustrup's C++ book), but an interesting read and may give you more information than you'll find in the whitepapers. Also search the threads for particular topics or problems - may give an insight in to how users of EA have 'coped'

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General Board / Re: Object instances

« on: January 02, 2008, 05:31:11 pm »

Go to the project browser and hit the new element button or right-click and select ADD->Add new element. Name it "student" (make sure element type is set to "class" - I think this is the default). Then, with your sequence diagram open, click on your student class and drag to the diagram and drop. Select "as instance of element (object)" and name it "sparks". that should do it?
I believe the underlining notation only applies to class diagrams and not interactions such as sequence diagrams.  

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General Board / Re: HTML Reporting

« on: December 20, 2007, 09:37:13 am »

Never played with it (okay just briefly a long time ago), but there is a 'web style template' in the resources tab. It looks like you may be able to add / remove items using this?