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General Board / Re: EA v12.1 Repository - issue with auto numbering of requirements

« on: September 28, 2016, 08:36:09 pm »

Is 'Requirements' missing in the list of types or do you see 'Requirements' but is is not selectable?
Note: the list of types is not in alphabetical order. 'Requirements' may be at an unusual place in the list.

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General Board / Re: Linking attributes and OWL problems

« on: September 22, 2016, 04:45:18 pm »

Another way to create connectors between attributes is to use the ERD notation. "You can access the Entity Relationship Diagram page of the Toolbox through the More tools | Entity Relationship Diagrams  option."

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General Board / Re: Documentation question re: requirement "text"

« on: July 13, 2016, 09:50:20 pm »

Well, you basically have two options. Find the one of the given templates that includes all you need and then remove all the unwanted stuff and beautify the rest. Or create a new template from scratch.

The 'requirements Report - details' should be a nice candidate for the first option.

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Uml Process / Re: UML Association Constraints

« on: June 27, 2016, 10:55:36 pm »

select one association
context menue
attach note or constraint...
activate the second associations checkbox + OK
Type OCL or any other words into the note

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General Board / Re: Get a collection of diagrams the Model

« on: June 22, 2016, 05:51:29 pm »

I am not sure if you need an API solution or if you just need a list of diagram names (and other attributes). For the later I suggest rtf document generation. The template is really simple:

package >
diagram >
Diagram {Diagram.Name} in Package {Diagram.ParentPackage}
< diagram
child packages >
< child packages
< package

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General Board / Re: Modeling like the kids

« on: June 15, 2016, 08:25:53 pm »

yepp, makes painting of diagrams easier but not constructing processes

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General Board / Re: Adding both side arrows in diagram.

« on: June 13, 2016, 04:59:22 pm »

Context menue > properties... > tab role(s) > Detail Navigability > set to navigable

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General Board / Re: Is it possible to disable autosave and have better undo/redo support?

« on: June 08, 2016, 06:27:44 pm »

Well, I guess I second this idea since more than 10 years.

It would be a nice feature if Sparx will enhence the message box (WARNING: This action cannot be undone) with a list of all elements that will be deleted forever. So if you accidentally mark a directory instead of an element you will see a really long list ;-)

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General Board / Re: Templates + Styles : Indented Headers but paragraphs remain left indented

« on: May 24, 2016, 07:55:09 pm »

Why don't you save your rtf as docx, remove all paragraph formatting with shortcut CTRl-A CTRL-Q and then modify the styles in MS-Word?

(I apologize my English is limited so I probably did not understand your problem)

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General Board / Re: Distinguish between User and System Requirements

« on: May 24, 2016, 12:25:16 am »

Before starting with requirements engineering & management I recommend to do some requirements engineering & management of your requirements engineering & management

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Uml Process / Re: Enumerations - Empty attributes?

« on: May 20, 2016, 01:10:28 am »

Well, there are a number of ways I guess. For example this one: Assuming you have a database class with stereotype entity and a UI class with stereotype boundary. The database class has an optional attribute (multiplicity [0..1] with a data type of your enumeration and the UI class has the same attribute but mandatory, then you can write into the database attribute description: if user selected 'none' from the dropdown then a NULL value is written   ....  or s.th. like that.

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Uml Process / Re: Enumerations - Empty attributes?

« on: May 19, 2016, 10:49:11 pm »

An enumeration value cannot be empty but you can give it a value like "empty", "unspecified", "none" or like that. And you can define a behaviour like writing a NULL value into a database table column.

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General Board / Re: Hide association multiplicities in a diagram

« on: May 10, 2016, 10:02:19 pm »

if you open the association properties tab 'role(s)', can you see the multiplicity values of SOURCE and TARGET? (I guess they are at another place)

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General Board / Re: How to indicate if an attribute is required?

« on: May 10, 2016, 01:01:42 am »

Well, UML specification says:
<multiplicity-range> is the multiplicity range of the Property. If this term is omitted, it implies a multiplicity
of 1 (exactly one).

I would recommend to mark optional attributes with [0..1] and to regard the ones without multiplicity as mandatory. In a database an attribute marked with [0..1] may have the NULL value, which is not the same as an empty string. If you have additional rules, e.g. a minimum of 5 chars and the first char is between 'A' and 'Z' or like that, it is a good idea to create a datatype with an invariant constraint describing those rules.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Notes alignment

« on: May 05, 2016, 12:30:24 am »

same here I accidentally hit on a key combination and the text was aligned right. Sigh, I didn't notice the combination and I can't repeat it. However CTRL-SHIFT-B (bold) will turn it back to the left side. This cannot be undone by CTRL-Z.

I guess this will be a great feature in the future
Please EA give us center alignment too. And indenting.

I will save the element with the right aligned notes like a treasure because I can copy the alignment to other elements