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General Board / file names of html report

« on: December 12, 2007, 01:15:47 am »

Hi

don't u know, if there is any way in EA, how to set names for files in HTML report. For instance: when I have an Use-Case with the particular name (e.g uc_xyz) in a package and I generate HTML report for this package, I would like to have uc_xyz.htm file to appear in the report folder.

thanks for suggestions ...

Jan

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General Board / Relative path on local files

« on: November 15, 2007, 03:30:45 am »

Hi,

I have some documents (doc or xls)- local files attached to an element or package in my project (a use-case node has a path in "Files" tab, etc.). Currently, these elements are given by the full path (eg: c:\XYZ\EAProjects\......\aaa.doc). Now, I changed it to a relative path (%CURDIR%\EAProjects\......\aaa.doc) for all files attached to my packages and elements. The problem is, that I am not able to expand that string "%CURDIR%" to the path, according to my will.

Do you have any idea, how to expand that CURDIR for all Files attached to packages and elements?? I have tried the Setting->Local paths ...option, but there is no "type" for this task (to change doc or xls path entries). Only types for programming languages are possible

Thanks for any help

Jan

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Uml Process / Re: BPMN subprocess collapse/expand

« on: August 18, 2011, 08:26:00 pm »

Hi Geert,

thanks fot the hint. That's fine.

Best regards,
Jan

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Uml Process / BPMN subprocess collapse/expand

« on: August 18, 2011, 06:42:24 pm »

Hi,

do you know if the EA supports somehow collapse and expand effect somehow? When I create a sub-process, it's collapsed (the plus symbol at the bottom appears). But it's not possible to "jump in" the same way how it's in the case of Business Process.

I solve the situation by including new diagram and elements into the sub-process so when I want to see the inner work-flow of it, I simply check the embedded diagram. But is there any better way to handle content of sub-processes?

Thanks
Best regards,
Jan

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: unable to delete files with ' char in their na

« on: September 19, 2008, 05:42:20 pm »

Thank  You for all comments ...
I will submit this as a bug.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / unable to delete files with ' char in their names

« on: September 17, 2008, 06:30:22 pm »

Hi,
have You ever met problems, when deleting use-case files via Api?
I can not delete files:
usecaseElement.GetFiles().Delete(...)

which have apostroph sign ' inside their paths...
\Use-Case\User's Environment Management\x.doc

- Even I can not rename them (the method SetName(...)) - consequent Update() returns false and GetLastError or similar methods return
Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'Object_ID=6606 AND Filename='Use-Case\User's Environment Management\x.doc'.
DAO.QueryDef [3075]

as a result, the exception is thrown
java.lang.Exception: I
      at org.sparx.Collection.comDelete(Native Method)
      at org.sparx.Collection.Delete(Collection.java:108)

Appearently, there are to many apostroph characters in the result ...

Is this bug?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: entities in HTML report

« on: September 16, 2008, 10:18:52 pm »

Thanks for the answer. I'll do that.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / entities in HTML report

« on: September 16, 2008, 08:59:06 pm »

Hi,
EA now provides feature for formating text in Use-case "notes". The problem is, that it generates html entities like &lt;b&gt;, but no html tags <b>, as I would expect. Is it possible to turn off fomatting tags at all in reports, or to switch from entities to notes?

thanks for suggestions ...

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / EA Add-In - strong types

« on: May 19, 2008, 07:33:18 pm »

Hello,
I have developed several Add-Ins as a WSC (Windows Script Component) in Visual Basci Script. Unfortunately, I can not use strong types in WSC, so I can not write e.g.

Sub EA_OnNotifyContextItemModified(Repository As EA.Repository, GUID As String, ot As EA.ObjectType)

,but I can write only this

Sub  EA_OnNotifyContextItemModified(Repository, GUID, ot)

I know, that the C# enables using strong types, but is there any other solution (except of C#) how to write Add-Ins and use strong types?

thanks

Jan

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: accessing EA variables

« on: February 15, 2008, 05:30:26 am »

Well, I am storing documentation for use-cases in "Files" tab (click element, choose properties, choose Files) as external word documents. The path of each file is given by a relative path (eg. \usecases\aaa\bbb\example.doc)
The variable "File directory" expands into this path when I launche a document.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: accessing EA variables

« on: February 14, 2008, 08:31:33 am »

Well, I checked it once again - you are right - there is info about "PROJECTDIR", but I am missing any entry connected with the "File Directory".

I have in my EA entry "File Directory" with value c:\aaa\bbb.
When I search string "c:\aaa\bbb" or even a part "a\bbb" in the exported register, nothing matches.

BTW: I found all of fields in "General" tab: "WEBMAIL", "PROJECTDIR", "DYNWEBSEARCH", "WEB HOME". But no FILEDIR or something like that...
:-/

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: accessing EA variables

« on: February 13, 2008, 06:08:03 am »

Thank for the hint, but
There is nothing as File Directory or Project direcotry.

I exported register into the txt file and I found only entries like
"DYNWEBSEARCH"="www.google.com"
or
"WEBHOME"="http://sparxsystems.com"

but nothing with connection to File Directory or Project direcotry


any other ideas?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / accessing EA variables

« on: February 13, 2008, 05:12:34 am »

Hi,
EA has in Tools -> Options tab General, with PATHS to
* Project directory
* File Directory
* ...
etc

I am writing a plugin for EA as the WSC in Visual Basic and  need to read these "variables". Is this possible somehow? In Java, VB, ...


thanks

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Access to a running EA-Application by Java

« on: February 15, 2008, 05:35:27 am »

You can faster the developmenet of addins, when you use i.e. MS Word, write your code (without restarting EA) accessing running EA instance.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: connection Perl to automtaion interace

« on: February 13, 2008, 05:06:14 am »

thanks a lot !!
it looks working