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Bugs and Issues / Divide diagram on several pages

« on: February 03, 2016, 02:03:33 am »

Hi,
I have problem with option: Divide diagram on several pages.

Diagram was divided by pages but was put also in header and footer.

Header and footer I was defined in template which was attached to master document.
(I use virtual documents)

EA12.1

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Suggestions and Requests / Better GUI mockuping for GUI and capturing req.

« on: September 14, 2014, 12:40:57 am »

Good afternoon.
I would like ask about:
Better GUI mockuping for GUI and capturing requirements.

We know that EA has two wasy to creating mockup:

• UI diagram
• Win32 Interface diagram

First is very simple and not nice :-(.
e.g. there are not possibility to use GRID to show example of columns and rows.

Second look nice but it is for simulation.
It is in my opinion to complicate to quick creation mockup.


There are not tree view where I could create simple example of tree.
Definition could be easily do by using text like for gird:
Id; Name; Surname
1; Ala;Kowalska
2; Jan;Malinowski

good examples: balsamiq (https://balsamiq.com)

(one of the important issue that one view (GUI) could be derived from
another)
change on first will be visible on second view
in derived we could make change.
(it is visual inheritance like in .NET WebForms Visual Studio)
I allows to show one GUI view in several states.

Would be excellent to have gui mock  in one tools.

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Suggestions and Requests / RTF reports: see chapter, see diagram

« on: September 14, 2014, 02:04:51 am »

Would be very useful to create links in RTF to chapters, diagrams:
like: see chapter, see diagram

Number of chapter and name should be automatically refreshing during generation document.

The same with diagrams.

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Suggestions and Requests / Improving of RTF Fields

« on: September 15, 2014, 06:32:00 am »

1. Fields which allow to get value of give level e.g.:
owner of owner
child of child
2. Possibility to set color, indent depending of value of e.g tag, of element level
3. Possibility of using condition directly in RTF
4. Possibility to diagram, element by "absolute path"

and
5. possibility do add some scripting directly to RTF
e.g.
like PHP for generating html view
or like in ASP
or like in ASP MVC - rezor

it allow to choose any "root" of package,
or root package in package,
and make condition:

e.g.:

<%foreach (var p in selectedPackage){  %>

   {p.Name}
  
   <%foreach (var e in p.Elements){  %>
      
        {e.Name}
        
        <% var p1 =  model.GetPackageByGuid("{030B4A82-1B7C-11CF-9D53-00AA003C9CB6}") %>

          {p1.Name}
   <%} %>
<%} %>

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Multilingual EA repository

« on: September 14, 2014, 04:48:42 am »

Thank you for your remarks.
Re a and b)

no, it is just one table with language resource
this table could has columns

• value - blob for notes or rtf
• status - to inform about status translation
• some columns with dates
• foregin keys to object, rtf notes and others

and of course there are some additional effort

- Main language will be this which you write in main tables
(that means values which was written in GUI )

- Additional smart grid to manage translation
this grid will use language resource.
which show main language value and column to translation

and least change to retrieve values for text and rtf in reporting

Re c)
I think now, but at least
e.g. it could be feature which could be available in unlimited version

Re: Just as a side note
This functionality could open for EA area of new customers .

Could you imagine how its big effort to maintain translation in e.g. word?
And when you create big RTF report in EA you need make translation not buy google translator . But when you generate new version e.g. in English how you can find difference in german word document?

Maintain would be very easy. When you change some text you EA could compare data of change and data of last translation and status and tell you that you should update translation for given field.

It is not for goggle translator . But it is for bigger company which has team and customers which need document in own languages.


Summarization:
That means in my opinion it is not big revolution in repository.
And allow EA to get new customer. E.g. which need create international documents, manuals. Of course I only can ask, it is not my role to set priority for EA team :-).

Thank you once again for your remarks.
 

Does not get my vote. Anything in that direction would mean a) complete new repository type (well, that would be worth it ), b) to make the whole program extremely complex and c) to increase the price of EA. There are more basic things I'd like to see first (like bug fixing and some other more general features).

Just as a side note: if you create a multi-lingual repository this will mean (except you have some Google Translator as the back bone) that you will have duplicate/redundant information. And if you don't maintain both in parallel (which illusionary) your model is simply scrap since you don't know which of the redundant informations is the right one.

q.

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Suggestions and Requests / Multilingual EA repository

« on: September 14, 2014, 02:11:52 am »

Would be amazing to have possibility to crate multilingual RTF reporter or HTML.

That means: name, notes, RTF embedded notes , tag value, tag value notes, scenarios and others should has possibility to write various cotnent for given language.

And additional view which in grid could choose columns for language and make quickly translation.

And next in RTF generator I could choose language of content....
Maybe it is only dreams  , but sometimes dream could be reality.

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Suggestions and Requests / Improving project glossary

« on: September 14, 2014, 01:54:11 am »

I have several proposition of improvements for project glossary:
1. Adding aliases for terms with the same meaning

Very often i have several other terms
which have the same meaning
would be good to have possibility to add aliases


2. Possibilities to add various grammatical forms of the same word
Some languages are inflectional, that means one word has several forms.
Would be useful to have "aliases" for flexible form.
Difference from aliases is that flexible form should not be print on RTF.
That flexible form should not has the same field on form.


3. Synchronization between glossary and repository:
When term will be change (rename)  it engine should change in EA (notes, names etc.)
When I change term in EA it should change in other places and in glossary.
In software developer IDE: Eclipse, Visual Studio it is cold: refactoring.

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Suggestions and Requests / Creating diagram based on parent diagram

« on: September 14, 2014, 12:54:04 am »

Very often in my work I meet with case when I need to analyze existing solution (process, architecture, etc.).
And next I have to prepare one or more proposition of the solution.

I would like to use base diagram to put my solution.
I have to options: cope and paste diagram and next modify or
create patter and use it pattern and modify.

But when I changed base diagram I need to modify all my diagrams which presents new solutions.

Would be very useful to derive one diagram from another.
It is visual inheritance like in visual studio.

• When I change base diagram I will see changes on derivative diagrams.
• I could modify element from base diagram on derivative diagram

and reset to be the same property like form base diagram.

• I could remove elements from on derivative diagram.

and restore as on base diagram.

• Of course I could add new items

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Suggestions and Requests / Embedded diagram in RTF report and RTF notes

« on: September 14, 2014, 02:06:54 am »

Would be very useful to have possibility to
Embedded diagram in RTF report and RTF notes.

Not to copy and paste. But "link" when diagram change picture in RTF report
and RTF notes will change.

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Suggestions and Requests / Improving: Crate - Link To Existing Item

« on: September 14, 2014, 02:00:31 am »

In notes we could use very useful function:

Crate - Link To Existing Item

It crate link with text of item name.

but when I change name on item link did not change text.
Would be good to have synchronization between links.

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Suggestions and Requests / RTF report and use element not from current pack.

« on: September 14, 2014, 12:58:26 am »

Would be useful to have possibility to create shortcut to package and other elements in package tree.

It could be solve problem that in RTF report i would like to use element not from current package.

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Bugs and Issues / Wireframing - reorder columns in table

« on: March 12, 2015, 03:40:49 am »

Is there possibility to reorder columns in table
in Wireframing.

In property it is possibility to visual adding columns but I can't reorder it.