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General Board / Re: Communication and sequence diagrams

« on: August 28, 2008, 02:22:05 am »

I meant creating a frame from a sequence diagram. I was trying to create a frame from a behavioral sequence diagram into another sequence diagram, but now I know that this is not possible. EA only allows sequence diagram frames in custom or extended diagrams.
Anyway the information you wrote was important too, thanks Oliver !!

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General Board / Re: Communication and sequence diagrams

« on: August 27, 2008, 11:35:30 pm »

Can I create sequence diagram frames ? How do I do it ?

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General Board / Communication and sequence diagrams

« on: July 29, 2008, 06:23:04 am »

Hello there...need your help again :-)

How can I convert a Sequence Diagram to a Communication Diagram, and vice versa ? Does Enterprise Architect implement this functionality ?

Thanx ;-)

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General Board / Project Samples Repository

« on: August 12, 2008, 11:09:59 pm »

Project Samples Repository:

There's such a thing as a Project Samples Repository...especially with Java projects examples, including diagrams, business rules, requirements and so on...

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General Board / Re: How to improve EA requirement traceability

« on: July 02, 2008, 05:28:12 am »

In time...I made a FEW tests...sorry about the poor english, I'm improving it...

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General Board / Re: How to improve EA requirement traceability

« on: July 02, 2008, 04:43:19 am »

Thanks again for the support...
We solved the problem considering everything you said in the previous posts, plus using the hyperlinks feature. We separated all of our diagrams in a different 'master diagrams package', and used the links to make the connections, under the idea of a 'Project Portal'.
Bernd, you're absolutely right !! Actually, there's no reason to avoid using the package hierarchy. That's what EA is made for, to separate and organize the way you model and browse your projects.
Frank, we will start using the child diagrams feature as soon as we upgrade our version of EA. I did evaluate this feature and it's very useful, thank you for the tip.
David, the idea of using the Show Namespace option was very useful as well. I had no idea about the functionality of this option, and after your advice I made a fell tests and it worked fine !!

Thanks again for the patience and the effort on helping us.

Alex

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General Board / Re: How to improve EA requirement traceability

« on: June 28, 2008, 01:02:27 am »

Hello there...here goes another issue we are having some doubts about how to deal with:
Is it possible to represent an activity diagram in a hierarchical tree structure ? Creating a sequence diagram or a GUI diagram, all its objects and components are created below the main tree view, not beside, at the same level. In an activity diagram, all of the components are represented at the same level. If I create more than one activity diagram at the same level, their components will be mixed up, causing some trouble to organize then an to determine to which diagram they belong to. Is there a way to avoid mixing activity diagrams components, rather than separate the diagrams in different packages ?

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General Board / Re: How to improve EA requirement traceability

« on: June 23, 2008, 10:56:15 pm »

Thank you BerndWill, Midnight, Roy and Dermot.
All the tips you gave where helpful, and the relationships window was exactly what we where looking for...thank you all for your commitment on helping newbies like me to improve the tool utilization. As our project grows, it's important to be assisted by people like you who are experienced and know the good practices. As we improve our knowledge, we are committed too to share it with everyone who needs help.

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General Board / Re: How to improve EA requirement traceability

« on: June 21, 2008, 06:15:59 am »

First of all, thank you a lot for the answers...but the question is the traceability: after we have the requirement linked to other objects, we would like to see all the requirement links starting at the requirement.  
I mean, something that works like a link tab at the requirement properties window.
For example, starting at a use case, we can browse and determine which objects this use case is linked to. Is there some analog way to do this starting at the requirement ?

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General Board / How to improve EA requirement traceability

« on: June 21, 2008, 03:47:04 am »

Since there's no link tab at the requirement properties window, how do we  trace the requirement links to other objects such as graphic user interfaces or use cases ?