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General Board / Re: Changing line styles on a diagram

« on: February 01, 2019, 10:28:47 pm »

That's great, thanks.

I've been able to use the script to do it. Looking at your menu options it very much looks like you have a more up to date version of EA than us. We're still stuck on 13 at the moment.

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General Board / Changing line styles on a diagram

« on: January 31, 2019, 11:04:06 pm »

Hi

Is it possible to change the line style for all relationships on a diagram at the same time. I can see how to do one at a time, via the context menu, but can't see how select more than one relationship to apply the change to more than one.

Thanks

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General Board / Re: Including images in package import / export

« on: December 14, 2018, 11:44:38 pm »

Yes, that worked.

Didn't need to export the images using the reference data option with Export Alternate Images option selected.

Thanks for your help with this 

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General Board / Including images in package import / export

« on: December 14, 2018, 11:04:25 pm »

Hi

I've just tried to import a package structure from a local EA file into our main EA (SQL Server hosted) repository and found that the import didn't include images that we have used in some of our diagrams. I now realise that images aren't included in exports but have found that it is possible to export images separately using the export reference data option. I was hopeful that when I had imported the images that EA would join the dots and show the images in the diagrams, but although the xml for the diagram includes the same image ids as the ids of the images that were imported, the images are not shown.

Any ideas why the images are not shown in the diagrams? I have also tried reversing the order of the imports, i.e. import the reference data first and then the package, but that did not improve the outcome.

We are using EA version 13.0.1307.

Thanks

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General Board / Re: How to save SQL search in project?

« on: September 01, 2018, 02:18:23 am »

Thanks Geert. Disappointing that it's not possible to just save them within a project as a resource. 

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General Board / How to save SQL search in project?

« on: September 01, 2018, 12:38:43 am »

Hi

I'm experimenting with model searches and relationship matrices and have created an SQL search and a Matrix Profile that uses the search. I have found that the profile is available to other users of the same model via the Matrix Profiles node in the Resources view, but the profile can't find the SQL search that I've defined. I'm pretty sure it's because any new search that I create is saved in the 'My Searches' group, which is local to my machine or user profile. How do I create new searches and save them in the project to make them available to other users?

Thanks

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General Board / Re: Which EA model repository to use; eap file or DBMS?

« on: July 11, 2018, 10:42:07 pm »

Thanks everyone for the advice, much appreciated.

There are only 4 of accessing the model at present, so I think I'll start with the integrity check and compact options. Also noticed that on the same menu there's an Update EA file indexes option, so I'll also try that to see if it speeds up access times.

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General Board / Which EA model repository to use; eap file or DBMS?

« on: July 11, 2018, 08:22:32 pm »

Hi

Is there a general rule of thumb for deciding when it makes sense to move from an eap file to a DBMS repository? We're noticing a significant deterioration in performance accessing our file based model and we're not sure whether it's an internal network issue or whether the size of the file is a problem (it's around 200MB in size).

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Creating a profile

« on: July 10, 2017, 06:09:49 pm »

Or it could be a missing menu command. Check the infamous View|Menus and Commands (or whatever is it called now) and make sure you set your menu set to "complete"

Geert

That's it! Thanks Geert, would never have found that. 

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Creating a profile

« on: July 07, 2017, 12:41:20 am »

In my build 1350) it is still just in the context menu under Advanced (ast item)

We're using build 1307, wonder if it's a bug that was fixed in later builds. Can't find the release notes for v13 builds to check 

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Creating a profile

« on: July 07, 2017, 12:20:48 am »

Hi

After creating a new model using the Basic Template in MDG Technology Builder I'm trying to generate the profile XML files. The examples say to "Export your Profile by right-clicking the parent Package of this Diagram in the Project Browser and select 'Save Package as UML Profile...'" but I can't find this option in EA13. I've found it in EA12, under the Advanced... option. Does anyone know where to find it in EA13 or is there a different way of doing it?

Thanks

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General Board / Re: How to access messages on communication diagrams via scripting

« on: July 04, 2017, 08:42:59 pm »

Ok, got it now.

Getting the MiscData(0) property and then using it with GetDiagramByID works.

Thanks both 

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General Board / Re: How to access messages on communication diagrams via scripting

« on: July 04, 2017, 08:18:44 pm »

In the according EAElement (t_object) look into MiscData[0] (PDATA1). This holds the DiagramID.

q.

Still having problems with this. Here's what I'm doing:

• I have created a communication diagram and added some objects and links / messages between them
• I have created a second communication diagram and dragged the original diagram onto it from the project browser. There are no other objects on this second diagram.
• I run a script against the second diagram and iterate over the diagram objects. There's one diagram object of objectType 19.
• I get the Element using the object's ElementID; the Element has Type UMLDiagram. This is all pretty much as expected, however I can't see how to get to the original diagram from this Element. This Element has an ObjectType of 4 and the MiscData property in the Locals window when debugging is set to "Parameter not optional".

Not sure if I've misunderstood where to look for the MiscData.

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General Board / Re: How to access messages on communication diagrams via scripting

« on: July 04, 2017, 01:40:06 am »

I'm writing a script to process the contents of a diagram. When I find a DiagramObject of type "UMLDiagram" I want to access the diagram to which it refers, but I can't see how to do it. Any ideas?

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General Board / Re: How to access messages on communication diagrams via scripting

« on: June 30, 2017, 11:17:18 pm »

This is EA, you know... In case of messages you find everything in the connector itself: Start/EndPoint, SequenceNo, DiagramID, StateFlags. There is no DiagramLink created. That's also the reason why creating SDs with classes leads to to lost messages (they are created only once per element and if you have only one class instead of many instances you loose data - EAUI).

q.

Right, think I understand now. On the communication diagram it looks as if the messages are stored as Connection class instances of type Collaboration.  Not particularly intuitive. Thanks for your help