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General Board / Re: database "drum" symbol

« on: September 18, 2009, 11:03:40 pm »

Excellent, thanks.

One last thing:  is there a way to get the special "<<" characters?

 -Guy

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General Board / Re: database "drum" symbol

« on: September 18, 2009, 10:03:49 pm »

 I tried both approaches, and I like the shape script better.  The image library is all 3D, and does not match the rest of my diagram.

So far my script is as follows.  Any idea how to reposition the text? I tried putting a moveto() before the println() but it stays at the top.  And I would like to get boldface but the docs says it can't be done.

Thanks again.


shape main {
      h_align = "center";
      editablefield = "name";
      startpath();
      moveto(0,10);
      arcto(0,80,100,100,0,90,100,90);
      lineto(100,10);
      endpath();
      fillandstrokepath();
      ellipse(0,0,100,20);
      
      println("#name#");
}

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General Board / Re: database "drum" symbol

« on: September 18, 2009, 09:45:23 pm »

Thanks for both answers.

I tried shape scripts, and was able to draw the shape.  Will look at the downloadable library next.

 -Guy

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General Board / database "drum" symbol

« on: September 16, 2009, 11:31:57 pm »

Is there any way to use the traditional database "drum" symbol on a UML diagram instead of the EA provided symbols?  This would be on deployment diagrams.

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General Board / Re: actor stereotypes in use case digrams?

« on: December 18, 2008, 04:12:56 am »

That sort of works -- stereotype foo is displayed as <<actor,foo>>, but I prefer the stick-figure notation.

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General Board / actor stereotypes in use case digrams?

« on: December 18, 2008, 03:23:37 am »

Is it possible to display stereotypes for actors in use case diagrams? They do not appear for me now, even when "Show Element Stereotypes" is selected in the Diagrams menu.

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General Board / Problem printing diagrams in Word 2007 and Acrobat

« on: December 18, 2008, 02:21:04 am »

I have a strange problem printing diagrams.

If I "Copy Image" from the Diagram menu, then paste into Word 2007, then use the "Create PDF" button, the PDF produced has space for the image but no graphics elements (but does include any text).  It works fine if instead I print to the PDF Printer from Word.

I originally thought this was a problem either in Word or Acrobat, but it works fine for other image sources. Only images from EA are affected. Perhaps there is something in the metafile image format produced by EA that the other programs don't like?

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General Board / owner field - tasks list and issues list

« on: November 06, 2008, 08:15:49 am »

I am experimenting with the tasks and issues lists, but when I try to create a new issue (for example), EA won't let me enter the "owner" field.  Anything I type in is discarded when the item is saved.

Is there some master list of names somewhere that I need to populate first?

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General Board / Re: BPMN diagram and toolbox

« on: November 27, 2007, 08:01:39 am »

Aha, that was it.  I thought I had changed type to BPMN, but it had reverted to Class somehow (probably operator error).  Seems to be ok now.

Thanks again.

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General Board / BPMN diagram and toolbox

« on: November 27, 2007, 07:07:22 am »

When I open an existing BPMN diagram, EA opens the "Class" toolbox.  Is this a bug?  I would expect it to open the BPMN toolbox, which it does when I click on a process, and open the internal process diagram.

Thanks.

-Guy

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General Board / business process structure

« on: November 26, 2007, 10:42:50 am »

I have just started using EA to model business processes.

I am looking for a way to include structure inside a "process" element, in an Analysis diagram.  I can do this now with the internal structure visible, but I would prefer to hide the internals until clickthrough, as with a package.  Is there any way to do this?

Thanks.

-Guy

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Bugs and Issues / Problem printing diagrams in Word 2007 and Acrobat

« on: December 18, 2008, 03:18:05 am »

Sorry for the double post, I posted this already to the General forum.

I have a strange problem printing diagrams.

If I "Copy Image" from the Diagram menu, then paste into Word 2007, then use the "Create PDF" button, the PDF produced has space for the image but no graphics elements (but does include any text).  It works fine if instead I print to the PDF Printer from Word.

I originally thought this was a problem either in Word or Acrobat, but it works fine for other image sources. Only images from EA are affected. Perhaps there is something in the metafile image format produced by EA that the other programs don't like?