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Suggestions and Requests / Re: BUG! Ability to alter unlocked diagrams

« on: October 13, 2006, 02:20:08 am »

Faster than a - an err, well FAST that's all I can say!  

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Suggestions and Requests / BUG! Ability to alter unlocked diagrams

« on: October 11, 2006, 06:38:01 am »

On our interaction (sequence) diagrams we are able to move arrows around when no lock has been applied to the diagram.

Creating new messages and dragging existing elements around has no effect on the unlocked diagram (as expected ) but try shift-clicking on the message arrows and it is possible to reassign the message source and target to different object lifelines. Most unexpected and a little scary...  

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General Board / Re: Requirements Matrix

« on: October 17, 2006, 02:04:32 am »

You're a star! I was just in the process of trying to hack together 20 bitmaps into some kind of graphical representation of the matrix.

It's a good job you're not here or I'd embaress both of us by giving you a big sloppy kiss!!  

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General Board / Re: Requirements Matrix

« on: October 17, 2006, 01:17:04 am »

Well, we're about to start taking screenshots and pasting them together to get our document out.

However, it'd be nice to see it there for our next project....?

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General Board / Requirements Matrix

« on: October 12, 2006, 03:32:38 am »

I'm trying to export our requirements matrices for inclusion in a Word document. However, I don't see how I'm supposed to do this....

...is it possible through the app or is it an automation process? If so, anyone got any pointers as to where to start?

Thanks (in advance!)

GD Monkey

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General Board / Re: RTF Document Generation

« on: June 06, 2006, 01:08:35 am »

I eventually gave up with the RTF document generation which was not flexible enough for our use.

Instead I (re) taught myself VB, took a crash course in Word automation and wrote a small program to output what I wanted!! I have to say it was much easier than I expected and more than made up for the time I wasted with RTF!  

Sparx have a good example here http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/resources/developers/autint.html which I took and butchered to do what I needed. Bearing in mind it had to be to a military standard template it is very flexible.

Good luck!

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General Board / Re: RTF Document Generation

« on: October 19, 2005, 01:25:19 am »

Is there a solution to this problem?

I also need a table of figures and can't get EA (5.00.768) to output the info from the RTF template. I'm approaching the problem through their recommended method of creating a master document with embedded subdocuments created in EA.

In the basic template there is a field {Diagram.Figure} which isn't a choice when right-clicking. Sadly it still outputs nothing when the document is generated.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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In case anyone is interested, I received the following in reply from Sparx support:

The figure numbering for diagrams was implemented early on but removed due some problems we encountered with third party software.  We will look into adding it again some time after the release of Version 6.0.

I hope this is of help.

Best regards,

Etc..

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General Board / Re: EA6 RTF templates

« on: December 01, 2005, 07:02:15 am »

3) I managed to (once) create a style "Title".  Now I want to add other standard styles e.g. "Subtitle",  has anyone got a clue how I did it the once?

If I'm understanding correctly all you need to do is select Edit Style... from the Edit menu, choose the type (character or paragraph) and click on New Style and enter the new name.

Back in the editor select the font settings you want and click back on "Edit Style..." again afterwards.

As you probably know, choosing a style name which matches one of M$ Word's (i.e. "Heading 1") means you can ignore changing the font, size etc in the RTF generator and just use the style settings as they're set up in Word.

Hope that helps!

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Bugs and Issues / Re: SQL Server Connection Problems

« on: March 13, 2009, 09:24:14 pm »

Okay, I've managed to fix the problem by running through the steps here (http://www.macropool.com/en/download/mdac_xp_sp2.html) to fix MDAC.
Apparently...

Windows XP with Service Pack 2 contains MDAC version 2.81, which is currently not available for download at the Microsoft Web site as a standalone installation. If you try to install MDAC 2.8, which is the latest available standalone download of MDAC, you will receive a message that you already have a newer version of MDAC installed.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: SQL Server Connection Problems

« on: March 13, 2009, 01:23:58 am »

I've just downloaded an app from t'interweb which brings up the Data Link Properties dialog (the one that EA shows when you click on Connect to Server... on the Start Page) and whilst that works on one machine it doesn't work on the one where the problem currently exists with EA. This *must* be down to missing/incompatible system DLLs and/or registry entries or similar configuration.
Now all I have to do is work out what it is that's causing it not to be displayed....

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Bugs and Issues / Re: SQL Server Connection Problems

« on: March 12, 2009, 10:05:23 pm »

Thanks for the feedback guys.
I always do tick the "Connect to Server" box and my connection string is:
<project> on SQL Server --- DBType=1;Connect=Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Password=<password>;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=<user_ID>;Initial Catalog=<catalog>;Data Source=<server name>

As I said, one of my colleagues can access the model using the exact same connection string (including the same user name and password). If we're using the user/password access rather than Windows account authentication does this rule out a domain/user access privelege problem?

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Bugs and Issues / SQL Server Connection Problems

« on: March 10, 2009, 10:31:50 pm »

I'm using EA Corporate Edition v7.1 (Build 834).
The model exists on a remote SQL Server which A.N. Other person can connect to. However, I cannot.
I have been into Admin Tools->ODBC and set up the System DSN and tested connectivity - all fine.

When I start EA and click on Connect to Server... on the start page the mouse pointer briefly changes to something else then back to an arrow but no dialog box appears. If I manually enter the connection string in File->Open Project... I get an error dialog with a title of EA and containing an exclamation and "[-2147467261]".

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Regards,

Monkey