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Suggestions and Requests / Pan and Selected Zoom

« on: November 07, 2005, 10:18:12 am »

It may be I missed these tools in the EA interface, but I miss them nevertheless.

In a diagram I should be able to grab the screen and "Pan" or move the diagram with the mouse instead of moving each of the scroll bars.  Like the "Hand" in Acrobat.

Also when I have something selected it should be obvious to the system that that entity or area is what I am interested in. So the system should Zoom to selected object or area.  and it wouldn't hurt to have these tools accessable in the context menu

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Suggestions and Requests / Searching the Forums HELP

« on: November 07, 2005, 01:29:26 pm »

3  things that really bug me about using the Forum Search
1. If one adds a short word like PUT it returns any word that has this inside like comPUTer.

2. Since max days is required couldn't it have a default in user preferences or something??

3. Since not putting in Max days causes the error couldn't the search form remember what I put in so that I don't have to type it again?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Transforming Relationship matrix into diagrams

« on: November 07, 2005, 01:34:42 pm »

DITTO I want a  'validation' template' or process too

But for now I would be happy to figure out how to relate elements to diagrams  and elements like use case to other elements

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Suggestions and Requests / User's Manual

« on: October 31, 2005, 11:44:56 am »

Am I the only one who likes using a Printed Manual?
I suspect not.  Anyway I would like to see the User manual broken down into printable size Documents.
They should be no more than 400-500 pages each.
Otherwise it is like using a phonebook.

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General Board / Re: Modeling SQL Server Stored Procedures

« on: December 05, 2005, 08:51:31 am »

You might be right  
But in this case I am creating Stored Procedures that are dependant on other Stored Procedures.  

So I want to see the relationships graphically. Also I think it would be great to be able to design new Stored Procedures in this environment.

Do you do much DB programming?

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General Board / Modeling SQL Server Stored Procedures

« on: December 01, 2005, 12:09:53 pm »

  I just reverse engineered some stored procedures.  They show up in the Project with all the important data.

My Problem is that I don't know what to do with them now.  How do I get them into a Diagram/ Model element?

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General Board / Re: Building relationships between elements

« on: November 22, 2005, 08:31:03 am »

Ok got it thanks

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General Board / Re: create explicit diagrams

« on: November 21, 2005, 04:11:39 pm »

Thank you I got the setting element as composite.  I have not been able to figure out how to create the diagram inside.
Any further explanation would be appreciated  
You Wrote "Or you can create diagrams explicitely inside elements via context menu"

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General Board / Re: Building relationships between elements

« on: November 07, 2005, 04:27:01 pm »

Thanks for the quick reply.  

Starting my first project, I am trying to Document the Business Processes, but unless I make a HUGE Diagram I will not be able to fit all of it on there.  I had been using Select Component Factory which allows a heirarchy of Business Processes. .

Can I build a child Process Diagram?

How do I go about building a Child Diagram under a Use Case?

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General Board / Building relationships between elements

« on: November 07, 2005, 01:46:22 pm »

I have spent the last few hours trying to figure out what I thought was a feature.  

Here I am cap in hand.  :-/

I need to associate Process elements with other process diagrams and use case diagrams and so on.  So that I can document the flow of design model from high level processes and requirements right on through things like classes and tables.  So when I am done someone should be able to trace or navigate this through links or something from one element to another.
 
Would somebody please 'splain it to me?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Is there an EA Automation Irony?

« on: December 01, 2005, 08:19:02 am »

 Wouldn't it be ironic if the diagrams for designing an addin weren't available to design in EA??

 I am looking for the UML diagrams that are in the EA automation documentation.  So that I can load them in EA and design/plan an Automation project..... with EA.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Generating UI code

« on: December 01, 2005, 07:55:19 am »

Can the EA forms be modified?

I am also thinking of ways to auto generate User UI Help.  I am not much of a coder anymore despite my handle.

Are there some coders around that are really into extending EA?  Or can you give me an idea how to find them?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Generating UI code

« on: November 30, 2005, 03:23:24 pm »

Yeah that seems right. I looked at that documentation.

Thanks a lot!! you are the best!!

Now I just have to find somebody that can do that kind of work. :-/

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Generating UI code

« on: November 30, 2005, 02:59:26 pm »

OK,  That's interesting!   Obviously I need to learn a lot more about EA.   Can we access those values from the XML/XMI file?

      I noticed that size and position of most elements in the diagrams is irrelevant.  But size of a Form or a container control is very relevant as this is normally how we'll get the position coordinates of child controls.

       It would be better if we could somehow read the size and position coordinates from the EA diagram storage method maybe?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Generating UI code

« on: November 30, 2005, 09:50:40 am »

Are you talking about Control Tags?

If you are talking about UI element tags. How does one add tags to them?
I am generating the data mapping layer with Tier Developer(TD). So I have methods and properties to bind the controls to.  TD also has form generation but only very basic.

I am hoping that I could retrieve the control type , position, data input rule, assigned datasource from the EA form element and then generate the form in VS.net