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Suggestions and Requests / Embed glossary links in text

« on: January 11, 2009, 02:04:01 am »

Is there anyway to embed links to Glossary Entries within the text of a requirement.

For example:

Glossary entry: Customer - a business entity that borrows funds from the Bank for which payment will be made to the Bank.

Requirement Entry: The Customer is a business entity, not a person.

In this case, I would like to be able to select the word 'Customer' in the Requirement Entry and have it linked to the Glossary Entry.

Thanks,

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: MS Access Generation

« on: June 14, 2005, 02:51:17 am »

Thanks

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: MS Access Generation

« on: June 13, 2005, 08:24:20 pm »

So tell me why the DDL works with Oracle, SQLServer, and others. The problem with Access is that the DDL facility that they provide will execute only a single command at a time, as opposed to the others that will allow the DDL script to be executed in sequence.

What is needed, for Access is a 'parser' that will read the DDL in order, including comments, and execute the DDL script one statement at a time.

Since EA uses Access as its database, I had thought that they might have the experience and expertise to execute the DDL Script.

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Suggestions and Requests / MS Access Generation

« on: June 13, 2005, 11:22:46 am »

As far as I can tell (having looked for several hours), Microsoft Access cannot use a DDL Script to make changes to the structure of the Database. There is a facility to DDL, but it executes one command at a time.

Given the expertise that exists within Sparx, I wonder if it is possible to create an Addin to EA that will take a DDL script from a Database model in EA and create/modify the structure of an MS Access database.

I have no objection if we have to create an empty Access database to start the process, but it would be nice if we could use the DDL Script that is generated to manage the database.

Thanks

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General Board / Re: Documenting Business Rules in EA

« on: January 11, 2009, 02:12:28 am »

Modelling a Rule as a Use Case is particularly useful for a complex rule, such as a Customer Approval.

If a Business Rule is simple, then I model it as a Requirement and link it to any other items to which it applies.

If a Business Rule is complex, then I model it as a Use Case, with Scenarios briefly described. I will then put in an Activity Diagram to model the Rule detail. Linking the Use Case to where it applies then ensures that the reader can go to an appropriate level of detail.

Hope this helps,

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General Board / Re: BPMN in EA 7.0

« on: May 22, 2007, 11:40:44 pm »

KP - understood. Don't care whether it is 1.3 or 1.4, but if it is going to be a part of the core product - which would be very nice - then could you please make sure that lanes work correctly as a part of a pool?

Many thanks,
Flavelle

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General Board / BPMN in EA 7.0

« on: May 22, 2007, 04:14:06 pm »

I notice that EA 7.0 Beta has a BPMN diagram type - does this mean that you're planning on making BPMN a standard diagram type - as opposed to the current Business Process Diagram in 6.5?

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Bugs and Issues / Unable to enter Registration Key in WINE

« on: June 20, 2009, 12:13:54 am »

Enterprise Architect 7.5 Full Version, for which I am a Registered user with a valid key, appears to install correctly in WINE. When I execute the program, I get told that I need a valid key. Only one problem - I am never given the opportunity to enter the key!

I am currently running ubuntu 9.04 AMD64 edition, with WINE installed from the repositories. I earlier tried the latest edition of WINE (from winehq.org), but it didn't work at all.

If anyone can advise how to enter the key, I would be most grateful.

Thanks,

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Uml Process / Re: Include or extend?

« on: April 25, 2005, 05:07:18 pm »

On a recent project, where we were using UML for the first time at this client site, we adopted the following convention:

1/ A Use Case was a full description of a process that provided some tangible business benefit to the user (such as "Register a Customer", "Do Compliance Check", "Transfer Customer Data to X System"). These were not functional decompositions, but descriptions of full processes.

2/ A Use Case was included in another (the Base Use Case) if the Base Use Case if the Included Use Case described a business process that was required in the Base Use Case. For example, one of the requirements for registering a customer is that a compliance check needed to be performed before the customer could be registered. In this case the Do Compliance Check would be diagrammed as an included use case with Register a Customer.

3/ A Use Case extended another if it added additional functionality to the Base Case. In our case, once a Customer was registered, the data had to be transferred to a lot of individual systems. So, the Transfer Customer Data to X System (all of them) were diagrammed as Extended Use Cases to the Register a Customer Use Case.

4/ The only exception was the Login Use Case, which is traditionally included in those Use Cases where specific credentials were required (Logging into a System does not normally provide a tangible business benefit to the User).

Identify the Use Cases first, making sure that they provide a tangible business value. A Use Case should stand on its own, and so must be written at a relatively high level. Once that is done, then look at the Use Cases to determine if there are relationships (Include or Extend). We found it much easier to do this way, since it kept the Use Cases to a manageable number. More importantly, our Users found it easier.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New categories in Model Wizard

« on: March 02, 2008, 02:08:28 am »

Thanks, I'll check it out.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / New categories in Model Wizard

« on: March 01, 2008, 11:09:07 pm »

Currently, there are two groups of models that are used when starting a new project in EA - <default> and Iconix. Depending on the option selected, there are then additional profiles available from which the user may select one or more.

Is there any documentation on how to add a customised option to the Model Wizard?

Thanks

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / XMI Import Profile

« on: May 02, 2007, 12:45:18 pm »

I gather that the XMI format is fairly flexible (to say the least). There is an XMI file generated from a different product that I would like to import into EA. The XMI contains a lot of different fields and values that don't get imported.

I was just wondering if it was possible to build a custom profile that I could use in conjunction with the import. If so, are there instructions somewhere on how to do this?

Many thanks