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General Board / New Book (TOGAF + Sparx Systems EA)

« on: October 08, 2025, 10:09:19 am »

Excited to announce the launch of my new book in Enterprise Architecture after 15 months of dedicated work. Many thanks to BPB and all the team members that helped me throughout this endeavor.

This book caters to EA enthusiasts and those keen on building a practical, model-based repository. Targeted towards various architects - business, application, data, and technology, alongside project managers, solution, integration, and cloud architects. Ideal for Sparx Systems EA users aiming to enhance their skills and master MDG.

Interested in your thoughts, feedback, questions, or suggestions, feel free to share in the comments. Amazon reviews are highly appreciated too. Grab your copy on Amazon by searching for "Building Model-Based Enterprise Architecture".

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Control Flows Between Activities

« on: September 21, 2023, 12:49:56 pm »

I received this from support today:

"Thank you for your report.

The issue has been confirmed and will be investigated further by our development team.

The notation for both Activity and Action is a rounded rectangle, so the elements in the diagram you linked to could be either. (I am sure that this ambiguity was wholly intentional from the authors of UML). However, as the elements appear to be the default size of an Activity element as created by EA, I can see that the diagram could be confusing, and we will change it.

Best regards,

Sparx Systems Pty Ltd"

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Control Flows Between Activities

« on: September 18, 2023, 10:19:53 am »

Thanks, I have reported that to support. Sorry for posting in the wrong place. You can remove the post if you prefer.

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Bugs and Issues / Control Flows Between Activities

« on: September 15, 2023, 02:52:51 pm »

If Control Flows are not allowed between activities in v16.1, why the online documentation still contains examples that contains all types of prohibited connections?
https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/16.1/modeling_languages/activitydiagram.html

This is super confusing for people who fail to create the connections, and refer to help to see all connections that they cannot do in one example!

Please update that diagram

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Is there a way to update the elements created with an older MDG to a newer one?

« on: December 30, 2022, 06:10:11 am »

Right click on the toolbox item and choose "Synchronize Stereotype"

Geert

Awesome, thanks!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Is there a way to update the elements created with an older MDG to a newer one?

« on: December 29, 2022, 10:14:48 am »

Hi
I created an MDG about 2 years ago, and I used it to build a repository with hundreds of elements. Recently I made changes to it to include more tagged fields. The newly created elements contain the new tagged fields, but the old ones do not.

Is there a way to update the old elements to be compatible with the new MGD other than recreating all of them?

Thanks in advance