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General Board / How do I customize the Relationships filter?
« on: August 30, 2018, 01:59:40 am »
Suppose I have a SPARX model with objects A, B, C, and D which are associated as follows: A->B->C. (D is not associated with anything).

My goal is to have a diagram containing A, C, and D where selecting A will highlight C, but not D.

Using the Relationships filter (Layout > Filter > Relationships) in SPARX 14 I can achieve this effect if I associate A directly to C and then hide the relationship. The problem is that I'm going to have a model with tens or hundreds of objects, and this method won't scale very well.

Is there a way in SPARX to create a custom Relationships filter that goes multiple levels? Is there a way to restrict which relationships it utilizes based on stereotypes or tagged values?

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General Board / Re: Extending Archimate 3
« on: June 21, 2017, 12:12:38 pm »
Thanks guys. I've been digging through the documentation and using a UML profile to create my new elements (with some success, they now display correctly with cunning little icons).

There are two things I still haven't been able to figure out that I was hoping to get advice on:
  • The UML Profile creates its own toolbox- I would like to make it a subsection of the Archimate3 toolbox (i.e. this is an extension of the Motivation diagram). Is this possible?
  • I would like to restrict which connectors each element can use based on the element it is being connected to (i.e. this new element can only "Realize" a requirement, it can't aggregate it). Is this possible?

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General Board / Extending Archimate 3
« on: June 10, 2017, 09:10:30 am »
Hello folks,

Is it possible to extend Archimate 3 to add new elements? Specifically I am exploring Capability-Based Planning which seems to add a new "Metric" element as part of Strategy. Ideally, I would like to create a new "Motivation Concept" element that has the same shape as an "Assessment" element but displays a different icon.

Thanks & Regards,
John

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General Board / Re: "Add Pattern" Not Showing Object Instances
« on: July 21, 2016, 01:15:33 am »
Thanks KP.

For #1, is there a list or a way to tell which classifiers support the Merge option? It looks like I may need to move away from using Objects.

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General Board / "Add Pattern" Not Showing Object Instances
« on: July 15, 2016, 08:41:03 am »
Hello folks,

I am trying to make some patterns using a combination of Objects and Actors (In an Extended::Analysis diagram). When applying this pattern in other projects, I will want to be able to select existing Objects and Actors to replace the ones in the pattern (instead of creating new ones).

However, when I create the pattern, I can only select "Create" and "Instance" for Objects, and "Create" and "Merge" for Actors.

Thus, when I try and add the pattern to a diagram in another project, I run into two issues:
  • When I try to select an "Instance" to replace one of the Objects in the pattern, I cannot see/select any of the Objects in my model (although oddly enough I can select Actors).
  • When I try to select an Actor to "Merge" with, I am able to successfully select an actor and it inherits the correct associations, but it doesn't appear on the diagram. This means I have to redraw that part of the diagram (which is annoying, but not the end of the world)

Is there some workaround I can take for the first issue? Why are actors behaving differently than Objects?

Thanks & Regards,
John

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Displaying HTML reports in iFrames
« on: December 11, 2015, 03:55:06 am »
I moved the page with the iframe to the same server/folder as the report, and the issue persists, so it doesn't appear to be cross-domain.

This is the code I have in "test.html", which is in the same directory as "index.html":

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<html>
      <body>
            <iframe src="index.html?guid={8FF14D7F-F8BB-4b60-9EBB-948D7FCC90E2}" width=800 height=500 />
      </body>
</html>

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Displaying HTML reports in iFrames
« on: December 11, 2015, 03:03:38 am »
Ah, that might be it. They are on separate servers. I will look into that and see if that solves the issue.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Displaying HTML reports in iFrames
« on: December 10, 2015, 11:27:39 am »
Yes, IE11 and FF38.8.

We don't typically use Chrome.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Displaying HTML reports in iFrames
« on: December 10, 2015, 10:01:17 am »
Hey folks,

I'm trying to embed an iframe with a SPARX HTML report in it (so that I can embed it in an internal company page).

I am using a URL which looks like "http://corporate.site.com/folder/Index.html?guid={...}". When I use the URL in the browser it works great, but when I embed it in the iFrame it starts to pull the page (it displays the header), but then never loads the rest of the content.

Have you guys run into this issue before? Do you know what might be the issue? I guess I can just embed a URL instead of an iFrame, but I'd love to let users interact with the diagrams within the parent page.

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