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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Public Bug/Feature Tracking

« on: July 28, 2010, 11:24:30 pm »

Completely d'accord!

Just created a Feature Request (Public Bug/Feature Tracking)!

CU
Happy

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: State Machines Code generation: Call and Signa

« on: December 15, 2010, 09:34:09 pm »

Possible workarounds would be welcome, meanwhile.

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Suggestions and Requests / State Machines Code generation: Call and Signals?

« on: December 15, 2010, 03:09:53 am »

In EA-Help I found the following statement (EA User Guide, Topic Transition):

Code generation for State Machines currently supports Change and Time trigger events only, and expects a specification value.

We would need Call and Signal, however.

When will this feature be available for the Ultimate license?

Thx,
Happy

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Bug Submission feature requests

« on: July 28, 2010, 11:24:45 pm »

Completely d'accord!

Just created a Feature Request (Public Bug/Feature Tracking)!

CU
Happy

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General Board / Re: RTF document generation: Limit selections

« on: December 01, 2010, 09:49:27 pm »

You may have a look for "Report Generation"/"RTF"/"Virtual Documents" Section in EA help.

There read  the sections about applying standard model searches to model documents via SearchName/SearchField Tagged Values of a Model Document.

Only the result of a search is used for reporting, then.

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General Board / Re: Caption for Tabular Sections

« on: November 24, 2010, 08:25:42 pm »

The only way I found as workaround/solution for this problem
is to create a simple Word macro which switches tables and their headings after RTF generation by EA.

Works fine.

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General Board / Caption for Tabular Sections

« on: November 17, 2010, 04:15:07 am »

Hi,

actually I try to improve the RTF output a little and I thought adding a caption to the Tabular Sections of my RTFs would be a good idea.

However using the obvious approch by adding the caption below the TabularSection template result in the expected result of having a own table for each column of the tabular section.
 

Is there a way to create a caption below a Tabular Section?

Thx for any info
Happy

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General Board / Re: Future of Document Generator: output format

« on: November 17, 2010, 05:40:21 pm »

Actually, I wouldn't agree.

The point is, I don't think it is a good idea, if the issues with rtf-Output are fixed by simply changing the output to a different format. Even if such a format as DITA would be used.

Why?

Actually I think there are lots of users, which try currently or even already succeeded in generating documents with EA.

Many of them would be happy, if EA generates well-formed rtfs. Where the output is controlled by a simple template mechanism and where you can use rtf-features which are known in OpenOffice or even Word.

Most of them would get very frustrated, if the output changes from rtf to something different, like DITA. Suddenly you would need expertise in a completely different document format, macbe just to make it generate rtf once again.

When switching to DITA, who knows what ptifalls and issues will arise?

The template approach of the rtf-Generator has become very complicated.

Instead of fixing issues first and adding new features second, new features came in first, creating new issues.

Just a question, when EA is used by a company, aren't there at least MS Word or OpenOffice available and/or mandatory?

Even Sparx recommends within in the help that once the rtf generators functionality isn't sufficient, one should open the generated document with MS Word!!!


Finally having a generator which creates valid documents (Word or OpenOffice) and is easy to handle would be my choice.

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General Board / Re: Normal.rtf

« on: November 15, 2010, 11:32:17 pm »

Are there any updates on this bug?

Looks like we've encountered something similar with build 864?

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General Board / Re: model search (SQL) and project constants

« on: August 04, 2010, 07:53:56 pm »

Hi Geerts,

thanks a lot. Unfortunately the help only gives examples but, doesn't give detailed informations about the underlying technique.

Do you know, for example, what to select for packages from t_package?

Cheers,
Happy

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General Board / Re: model search (SQL) and project constants

« on: August 04, 2010, 06:48:59 pm »

To make the searches usable in EA you need to return the ea_guid and object_type.

Hi Geert,

Can you describe the requirements what to return? Where can I find more information regarding this point?

Happy

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General Board / Re: model search (SQL) and project constants

« on: August 03, 2010, 09:57:47 pm »

When you say Access syntax and function to split up the string I have two questions :

1. Is it possible to do this with EAs Model Search Builder?

2. Where can I find more info about available Access syntax for EA?

Cheers
Happy

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General Board / Re: model search (SQL) and project constants

« on: August 03, 2010, 09:06:18 pm »

Actually I'm using the database model which is builtin to EA. We never changed it. Most of our modelling data is stored in xml and separately version controlled.

Our eap only contains the EA-specific hull as scripts, templates, project constants, the links to the root model xmls aso.

You say a series of substring type functions? Are there any accessible within a model search of EA?

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General Board / Re: model search (SQL) and project constants

« on: August 03, 2010, 08:25:41 pm »

Hi Geert,

well may it because I'm not very used to SQL queries. Especielly when confronted with EAs SQL-Search interface.

Actually I think retrieving the string contained in the t_rtf Template field which belongs to the Type field ProjectOpts, should be possible, the following statement should do the work.

Code: [Select]

SELECT rtf.Template
FROM t_rtf rtf
WHERE rtf.Type = 'ProjectOpts'
But then, I don't know how to easily break up the String into the project constants.

Maybe breaking the work up into a cascade of SQL-searches and scripts?

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General Board / Re: model search (SQL) and project constants

« on: August 03, 2010, 06:57:00 pm »

As documentation of those features is lacking extremely (my point of view), I started today to "browse" through the eap tables with visual studio database access.

Finally, I found the place where the Project Constants, alias RTF_PROJECT_FIELDS, alias ProjectOpts are stored.

t_rtf (Type-field = "ProjectOpts", Template-field contains string with "Name=Value"-pairs, separated by semicolons).

Actually I don't think that these values are accessible within a EA-search.

As Export of those fields creates a simple structured xml-like file, I thought the data would be stored structured as in the xml file.

Is there a limit of tables inside the eap?