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General Board / Re: Zicom Mentor v2

« on: July 11, 2003, 12:49:28 am »

jkaczor,

As far as I know it is a free. If in doubt contact Zicom direct, they're pretty responsive.

mark

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General Board / Re: Zicom Mentor v2

« on: July 02, 2003, 05:42:02 am »

I an now answer tmy earler question as Zicom replied to a separate enquiry.

Mentor v2 is released but they found a couple of small typo errors and thus v2.02 will be released this Friday. Existing v1/1.01users who wish to u/g should thus wait for Friday's release.

HTH

Mark

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General Board / Zicom Mentor v2

« on: July 02, 2003, 02:09:11 am »

Hi,

I'm a bit confused. The Sparx main web site is announcing Zicom Mentor 2 (HTML-based UML reference) is released but the Zicom web site has no mention of anything later than v1.01.

So is the Sparx annoucement too early or is the Zicom website out of date?

Regards

Mark

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General Board / Re: Glossary to HTML

« on: March 17, 2003, 04:33:37 am »

Steve,

Thanks for the thought on this, I'll go check.  My team is also watching EA-RequirementControl with interest.

Regards

Mark

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General Board / Glossary to HTML

« on: January 28, 2003, 08:21:44 am »

Me again.  

I notice the HTML export feature exports a 'glossary.htm' to the top level folder of the documentation.  However, it contains simply the word 'glossary'.

I assume it should contain the Glossary.  I've RTFM but can't find out how I make the model's glossary appear in this page (or elsewhere in the export).

Perhaps it's a yet-to-be-implemented feature?  It might explain why the page is produced but it is not linked into the other documentation - though it would be neat if it was!

Regards

Mark

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General Board / Re: Customising HTML output

« on: January 28, 2003, 06:42:56 am »

Phil,

Spot on!  

It answers the content customisation issue.  On an ease of use note it would be useful to be able to add (or have a build-in stubs for) things like a custom top frame to put a external links, logos, etc, etc.  This is quite useful for using the HTML set in an extenal end-user context.

At present I've amended the 'Index' frames set to add a top 'banner' frame and then manually add the banner HTML page and its images to the exported EA HTML.  

[Feature request] It would be neat if I could add the the
custom frame's HTML to the list in the "HTML and CSS Style Editor" dialog and to add the custom page's images as a project reference of some kind so that their inclusion ceases to be a manual edit post HTML export.[/Feature request]

Not complaining though as I've achieved the initial aim.

Regards

Mark

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General Board / Customising HTML output

« on: January 27, 2003, 04:33:30 am »

Hi,

I'm more end-user than UML-jock so excuse my ignorance here...

We've been much impressed with the HTML export as a way to give subject matter experts a view of use case diagrams and UCs (they find the diagrams the easiest way into the model) without the hassle of them learing EA or breaking anything  .  Anyway...

The issue is that info presented in the standard HTML export such as GUIDs is a bit scary for non-techs and we'd like if possible to tweak the type of fields exported so they are more suited to the type of end-user.

If this means us writing a whole custom export I guess we'll pass but I figured it was worth asking here in case there's a simpler/less complex way of doing some export customisation. I realise we can use CSS but that's look and feel as opposed to content. Sorry if I've failed properly to RTFM here.

TIA,

Mark

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General Board / Re: How to jump to Use Case docs?

« on: November 13, 2002, 08:13:42 am »

Steve,

Sorry, I stand corrected - not a plug-in!  Notwithstanding, it still sounds interesting, especially with the extra info you've just supplied.

RTF vs HTML.  For my 2p-worth I see HTML as an intermediate format for sharing disemination whereas a more formal format (DOC, RTF, PDF) will be needed for final deliverables - this is likely to be driven by the customer dictat rather than what the EA project user might wish to provide.

Regards

Mark A

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General Board / Re: How to jump to Use Case docs?

« on: November 13, 2002, 05:12:45 am »

The EAUP plug-in sounds an interesting development, especially if it aids links out to other documents - our UCs are exhaustively cross-referred to 2 other models and some of the customer's requirements documentation.

Although by turning our UC docs from Word to HTML the UC can be linked out to from within the EA HTML documentation the document links are not relative - unlike the rest of the EA links.  It would be useful if there were an option to have linked documents as relative references (or perhaps using a common document root ref'd in a .JS file).

Such an option would give a very portable 'view' for those who are consumers of EA data rather than authors.  No-techie 'consumers' can view the information in a tool they understand (web browser) and can't 'break' the original data.  At worst the they corrupt the HTML which can easily be re-run.

Regards

Mark A

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General Board / Re: How to jump to Use Case docs?

« on: November 05, 2002, 09:16:52 am »

Jaime,

Thank you, it's beginning to make sense.  One last question, if I may.  

It seems I can only create documentation for a package, not a single UC inside a package.  If I select a UC in the 'Workspace' treeview window neither the main menus or the context menu have a 'Documentation' option such as on a package's context menu.  If I make a change to one UC I'd prefer not to export all package docs.

Thanks again,

Mark

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General Board / Re: How to jump to Use Case docs?

« on: November 05, 2002, 05:21:01 am »

Jaime,

Thanks.  Problem is I'm not making the model - I'm a domain expert (whatever that is) who's been given the tool so he can look at the diagrams and UCS providing domain expertise.  I'm not really supposed to be able to alter things.  I have set up links to the UC DOCs via the properties.  

Having a hyperlink per UC is a lot of extra UI-based work (>100 links) to connect something that's already connected in the properties.  Anyway, exported to HTML the UC links to the Doc just fine without a hyperlink.  It just feels like there's a menu option I've missed.

As to putting the UC in  EA, the properties dialog doesn't seem to have the fields I'm looking for.  We're using business level UC at this early stage and the sections are Overview, Actors, Preconditions, (Normal) Scenario, Post-conditions, Supporting Info and Requirements.  The EA Properties dialog has different labels.  I can find a home for the UC Title and the Scenarios - but where for instance is the list of Actors?

Am I making sense here?

Regards

Mark

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General Board / How to jump to Use Case docs?

« on: October 31, 2002, 05:48:24 am »

I've RTFM so sorry if I've missed something.

I'm working primarily with Use Case aspects and spend much time jumping between UC diagrams and the word docs holding the actual UC.  Once the doc is linked it is still 5 clicks to open the doc.  Is there a faster way.  Can I put a menu call to linked (docs) on diagram context menus.

I realise for some people there may be many docs but for me it is one linked doc per UC.

The other painful process is creating the links.  It would be nice if I could use a Doc naming schema such that I could point EA a a folder (or folderset) and let is auto-discover and link the UCs.

When exporting to HTML, it would be useful if links to DOCs could run a shellexecute routine to call Word (or whatever) rather than cause the browser to start a file d/l.

Although my needs only sctrach the surface of EA's features, it's a neat tool.  Thanks, Sparx

Regards

Mark A