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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How can I use the Data Field in a Linked Document?

« on: September 29, 2022, 08:31:13 pm »

i'd love to understand this too.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How to automatically generate HTML pages every night

« on: August 24, 2022, 04:36:48 pm »

This migh get you started:

Geert

Wow, thank you!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / How to automatically generate HTML pages every night

« on: August 24, 2022, 03:41:07 pm »

Hi,

many years ago i worked in a project where EA was on a db server and html pages were automatically generated every night.
If i remember this was a scheduled task running a shell script.

I mentioned this to my current project and now have to implement something similar - but alas i have no idea how to do this.

I already searched the forum and documentation but cannot find anything that would help me - i know how to model but not how to script or access EA from the command line and it has been years since i have written a VB script.

Can someone point me towards a good starting point please?

Thank you in advance - Sabine

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General Board / Re: SQL Search failing on Model Document

« on: August 22, 2011, 10:29:18 pm »

Same situation here.
All model documents with SQL queries that used to work perfectly with v7.5 now fail with v8.0.

This is a major bug because sql queries are the only way to evaluate specific information that cannot be seleted otherwise.
As a result we now have to change the templates and spend hour deleting unwanted stuff from our documents.

      - S. Noack

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General Board / Re: Override Attribute Initializers dialog questio

« on: September 28, 2009, 07:24:29 pm »

OK it seems to work for classes in class diagrams only.
The Toolguide specifically mentioned all elements that have attributes and i assumed that i could use this mechanism for deployment model elements too, since nodes also can have attributes and inheritance also works for nodes.

Thanx - Sabine

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General Board / Override Attribute Initializers dialog question

« on: September 28, 2009, 06:20:47 pm »

According to the tool help, i can invoke the Override Attribute Initializers dialog for elements that have attributes in general and  have inherited attributes where the initial value needs to be overriden.
I am supposed to select the inheriting element and choose Advanced | Override Attribute Initializers from the context menu.
Unfortunately this menu option is never displayed.

Are there certain constraints or options i might have to set to allow overriding attributes in general?

In my concrete example, i'm trying to create a deployment diagram with specializations of different hardware elements (for example server: blade server, rack server, ....). All server node specializations  have the same common attributes but there are some differences regarding the initial values for blade and rack servers.
I thought that i could simply define the attributes for the general server node without an initial value and override them for specializations of server whenever necessary. This doesn't work, i.e. the menu option for the dialog was misssing.
I then entered an extra attribute with the same definition for the specialization nodes because i assumed that maybe you need to add the attribute to be able to override it but that didn't help.

I then tried to do the same thing with classes because i assumed that override attribute initializers isn't implemented for deployment nodes but that didn't help.

How do i model inherited attributes to be able to override their initial values and what needs to be selected to open the override dialog?

EA7.5.845 Ultimate edition

Thanks in advance - Sabine

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Bugs and Issues / RTF Report: yellow section tags instead of content

« on: February 03, 2010, 07:10:23 pm »

I'm having a problem with the evaluation of methods in my generated RTF Reports. The Method section is not filled and instead the tags from the ea template are printed.

This happens in every template where i try to evaluate methods, all other sections work fine.

Any ideas?

Sabine