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General Board / Re: Image libraries?

« on: September 13, 2012, 03:49:18 pm »

Other than these provided by Sparx I am aware of no others.

http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/image_library.html

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General Board / Re: How to find a Linked Document?

« on: August 06, 2009, 07:22:24 am »

All many thanks for the solutions.   Have implemented it and it is working great, as we have SQL server.

Cheers... Sean

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General Board / How to find a Linked Document?

« on: August 04, 2009, 01:56:01 pm »

I am looking at using linked documents to store information associated with a specific element.

If I simply have a copy of the printed linked document, is there someway within EA that I can search the project to find the package and/or element that linked document is attached to.  (e.g so that I can update the linked document.)

It seems that linked documents are somehow embedded within and element and do not appear as elements in their own right.  

My current approach is to ensure I have a naming convention on the document which corresponds to the naming convention on the element.  That way I simply search for the element - using the naming convention on the linked document.

Is there a better way?

Cheers... Sean

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General Board / Re: BPMN: Linking Start Events with a diagram

« on: May 01, 2009, 07:30:28 am »

Michael,

Hi.   I too would be interested in this capability.   It would allow you to point the link object to the process diagram it refers too.   (This is the whole point of the link object in BPMN.)

Sean

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General Board / Batch Generation of Html Documentation

« on: April 29, 2009, 11:07:57 am »

Hi.  A new user to the boards.

Is there a way to create a batch generation of HTML Documentation for a project.   My aim is to submit this batch generation after hours when I have logged out of EA.

Why would I want to do this?   Essentially to Save tying my PC up for up to an hour waiting on the HTML documentation to complete within EA.

(As an aside we recently converted an *.eap file, on a network, to a SQL server database, on a network, and had significant performance degrade.   Especially with respect to HTML publishing.   In the SQL Server version I can watch every element being published in the status window.)

Cheers... Schurms

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Version Control missing after 9.3.934 upgrade

« on: August 22, 2012, 01:36:08 pm »

Roy.  Many thanks works a treat. ...Cheers...Sean

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Bugs and Issues / Version Control missing after 9.3.934 upgrade

« on: August 22, 2012, 10:59:11 am »

Hi. Just upgraded from 9.1 to 9.3.934 2 days ago (before the latest software.)  At the time I verified all version control options were there.  Right click the package and check out - worked fine.  Opened software today and all packages are still marked as under version control, but there is now no option to check out the package when I right click on the package.

So I can not check out any packages to work on them.

There is also no option under Project to configure Version control.  

Any thoughts how I can reenable it as the path still points to the local TFS package.

There have been no changes to TFS as have 7 other colleagues still on 9.1 successfully accessing the version controlled package.  Seems to just be mine with 9.3.934 since upgrading that version control is now not available.

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Uml Process / Re: extend BPMN technologies with tagged value fie

« on: August 05, 2009, 02:49:08 pm »

Florian,

Hi.

1.  If your requirement is to add a tagged value to one or several BPMN elements in a given diagram, then Ctrl - Shift - T will allow you to create a Tag plus an associated value.   Note if you have selected only one element then the tag applies to only one element.   If you selected multiple elements then pressed Ctrl - Shift - T then the tag applies to those elements selected.

2.  If your requirement is to update the default tag value fields permanently for the element, so that each time you use that element in a model the new tag value is present, then you need to Set the Template package.   Search for "Set Element Template Package" in EA help.  You only need to put those elements you wish to "override" from default into the package.   Once set, everytime you take that element from the toolbar and place it into a model, the element will have the attributes of the element you have in the package.

3. In terms of relationships between BPMN elements - the tool defines those allowable by the standard.  

Cheers.. Sean

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: TOGAF diagram and Automated Script

« on: August 30, 2012, 09:21:14 am »

Stoppy,

As Simon M communicated, the TOGAF extension is actually an add-in to EA which requires the correct key to enable the add-in functionality at run-time.  

The problem is not specifically license key related, but related to  enabling the TOGAF add-in when calling EA via the automation EA.

You get the same results if you enable and disable the TOGAF add-in from within EA directly, whilst still using a TOGAF authorised license key.  So it is all about enabling the TOGAF add-in.

But good suggestion.

 

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: TOGAF diagram and Automated Script

« on: August 29, 2012, 09:44:23 am »

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I will implement a workaround as it is really only one image.  (E.g keep a copy of the Togaf image, created from a manual publish, in a separate directory and replace it as a last step.)

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / TOGAF diagram and Automated Script

« on: August 29, 2012, 07:24:10 am »

Hi.  We have created a C## batch script which runs each night to publish all packages within a TOGAF database to a html website.  Eg publishing all our business process packages.

Problem - When we run the script the models are all successfully exported however the root TOGAF circle diagram is incorrectly rendered.  (Eg it is displayed as square boxes and not the circles under TOGAF.)  Now the script is run on a PC with a version of EA which has a TOGAF License Key applied.

When the diagram is manually opened, the TOGAF diagram displays correctly. Further when a manual html publish is started from within EA the diagram correctly renders. (Again because the version of EA uses a TOGAF License key.)

The incorrectly rendered TOGAF diagram is displayed as it would be if you open up a version of EA that does not have a TOGAF License key applied.  So the Automated script is running as if there is no TOGAF license Key.

Question:  We have a TOGAF license key.  How can we run a batch script on EA and let it use the TOGAF License key, to correctly render the TOGAF model.  I can not find a parameter to specify a specific Licence Key to use when opening the repository.  (As stated earlier, we are running this on a PC which has a version of EA which is using a TOGAF License Key.)

Any thoughts?