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Suggestions and Requests / Deep copy of information flow

« on: June 05, 2008, 12:37:08 pm »

Can deep copy information flow include its information items?

I have two state machines where I have added an information item between their substates.

When I deep copy the two machines, the information flows are created but its information item is empy while the original one is not.

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General Board / Indexing concurrent flow in collaboration diagram

« on: March 28, 2009, 03:34:14 pm »

How to illustrate two concurrent flow in collaboration diagram?

As i know, UML use the sequence number like:
1.1a
1.1b

To show two concurrent and asynchronous call.
How can i make it in EA?

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General Board / Can EA load a very large model progressively?

« on: August 13, 2009, 02:06:26 pm »

I have a very large model which loads a long time before i can start working on it.

Is there a function such that when i load a model, it loads the package structures only until i expand a particular package, it starts loading its details?

My model loads me several minutes before I can start working on it which is not very reasonable.

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General Board / Very Slow in Loading my enterprise architecture

« on: May 09, 2009, 10:48:30 pm »

I have 2 hundred something systems in my organization and their data flow and connections are defined in the EA.

As the diagram grows, the project loading time now goes unacceptably slow.... basically 5 - 10 minutes....

Is there any way to allow adding/referencing elements in other EA projects in a diagram so that i could separate the whole big model into separated projects?

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General Board / Connecting to TFS

« on: November 28, 2008, 03:00:34 pm »

I've tried to connect to a shared repository with TFS as its version control server.

It keeps telling me that the directory (which hold the local copy of the repository) is not a TFS working space.

But i check with TFS, i'm sure it is.

Is that a bug?

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General Board / Batch Edit of Attribute Stereotype

« on: November 21, 2008, 03:35:29 pm »

Is it possible for me to assign Stereotype to a large batch of Attribute in one operation through the GUI?

If Script needs to be written, is there any developed one that can share with me?

Big Thanks in Advance

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General Board / Re: Telelogic Modeller?

« on: August 03, 2008, 12:27:55 am »

Thank you very much. Your feedback are very useful.

Segun, which tools have you finally adapted?

Miller, how large is your EA that start making System Architect crash?
Our company has around 218 interconnecting systems. How does it compare with your scale?

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General Board / Re: Telelogic Modeller?

« on: August 01, 2008, 11:16:40 am »

Not if it based upon the "Not free" Telelogic: System Architect.  My company has just dropped "System Architect" in favour of EA.

Hi Miller, would you share your experience or reason for dropping "System Architect"? Is that too sophisticated and not required for your company or what? How's your hands-on experience on that?

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General Board / Re: How to undo "offline checkout"?

« on: August 01, 2008, 04:56:45 pm »

When I click the undo checkout, it pops out the following error:

no pending change where found in "C:\<package xml>"

Because of that, I can do nothing and the symbol of the package in the project browser keeps showing an "offline checkout" status.

I don't know what to do.

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General Board / How to undo "offline checkout"?

« on: August 01, 2008, 03:54:52 pm »

I have offline checkout a package.
I try to undo the checkout but it doesn't allow me to do so.

How can I do it?

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General Board / Re: Version control problem.....!!!!!

« on: August 01, 2008, 11:10:19 am »

Thanks D. Miller.

So, if you are right, it seems to be a bug/missing feature.

Reason: When someone added a package to the model and checkin the model to the TFS version control, other's project browsers will show that a package file (the xml of the newly added package) is missing in your local version control directory. But there's no way for you to download that xml through EA.

In my experience, I must go TFS client to do "update latest files" to get that xml file from the version control server first and reload the project to fix the red doted package.

This is not a good integration at all. I wonder if the same problem exist for SCC / CVS

If yes, it should be improved by talking with TFS through SCC interface. Is that right?

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General Board / Version control problem.....!!!!!

« on: July 31, 2008, 01:51:55 pm »

2 questions:

(1) I have shared repository in DB and configured version control by TFS. When other user added a package to the repository (through checkin), the new package shown in my project browser has a little red dot.... I expect it to be shown with a normal version control icon (having a key symbol) in my project browser. What's wrong with it? How can I checkout that newly checkin package through EA?

(2) I don't know what setting I have made on a pop-up dialog, all packages added by others now shown in my project browser with a plain folder icon. I cannot change it and do any version control thing on it... how to resume the setting??

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General Board / What is stub information in version control??

« on: July 31, 2008, 11:47:18 am »

"In releases of Enterprise Architect later than version 4.5, when you save a package to the version control system only stub information is exported for any nested packages. This ensures that information in a nested package is not inadvertently over-written by a top level package."

"only stub information is exported for...": export refer to exporting the local copy to the version control? i suggest using "save" to make it more understandable.

"This ensures that information in a nested package is not inadvertently over-written by a top level package.": Do u mean the nested package in control system will not be over-written mistakenly by my local nested packages when saving the top level package?

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General Board / Re: MVR020001 Error in model validator

« on: June 20, 2008, 05:58:09 pm »

I wonder what the error is trying to tell me indeed because there must be some reason behind according to the UML specificiation which invalid my model.

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General Board / Re: MVR020001 Error in model validator

« on: June 20, 2008, 11:21:22 am »

The state machine is very simple.

There is a StateMachine1, it carries 2 substates State1 and State2; 1 Initial and 1 Final. There is a transition from the Initial to State1 and one from State2 to Final.

And then I validate the state diagram and result in the following output:

MVR020001 - warning (StateMachine1 (StateMachine)): StateMachine1 is missing required child element: Region      
Validation complete - 0 error(s), 1 warning(s)