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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Hierarchical partitions in activity diagrams

« on: October 19, 2011, 11:54:22 pm »

Thanks for answering Luis J., but that is not the desired feature either. It should be real hierarchical partitions. As an example, MagicDraw does it well.

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Suggestions and Requests / Hierarchical partitions in activity diagrams

« on: October 19, 2011, 05:39:20 pm »

Hi people.

I think it would be an interesting feature to be able to create hierarchical partition (or swimlanes) in activity diagrams. Not only plain partitions.

I can't figure out how to do that in EA 9.1. I guess it is not currently possible.

Thanks.

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General Board / Re: Value Types: Units and multipliers

« on: October 23, 2015, 10:53:47 pm »

Thanks qwerty !!

Your point is to choose the option 1, so Byte is defined as a Value Type and then Property Values can be declared of type Byte that would take values of 2 x 10e9, for example, for 2 TB.

I like this option. Actually it was my first option.

Perhaps this is not the best example because someone could ask "Why not bit instead of byte ?". But this is another story.

The point is to declare the unit as Value Type even though the magnitude of the common values is going to be big.

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General Board / Value Types: Units and multiplier

« on: October 23, 2015, 09:38:03 pm »

When you need to define a new Value Type where the common values are usually orders of magnitude higher than the unit. Which is the better option:

1- Define the unit whatever the actual values will be
2- Define the common multipliers
3- Define independent Value Types that represent units and multipliers

For example. If you need to model hard disks. Nowadays, TB is the usual unit, but the storage unit should be bytes (or even bits). So the options would be:

1- Define a Value Type for bytes (or even for bits), and then the value properties would be assigned with huge numbers
2- Define a Value Type for TB, and then the value properties would be assigned with lower numbers
3- Define Value Types for bits, bytes, KB, MB, TB, ...

In the third case, all the Value Types would share a common Quantity Kind (namely Storage Capacity), but they would be different types with an easy translation among them.

I look forward thoughts. Thanks !!

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General Board / Re: Hierarchical partitions in activity diagrams

« on: October 19, 2011, 05:35:56 pm »

It seems it is not possible to do that. I will post this as a request.

Thanks guys.

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General Board / Re: Hierarchical partitions in activity diagrams

« on: October 07, 2011, 08:31:56 am »

No, I did not try right-clicking on the diagram and select that option. After try it, I still have not found what I am looking for (like U2 used to say   ).

I find it particularly tricky. I am using MagicDraw and to add a partition inside a partition is as easy as right-click the partition and select "Insert Inner Swinlane".

Let me remember you that I am asking for HIERARCHICAL partitions.

Cheers.

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General Board / Hierarchical partitions in activity diagrams

« on: October 05, 2011, 06:05:14 pm »

Hello everybody.

I am trying to model a business process with an activity diagram and I would like to use hierarchical partitions, or swimlanes, but I can not figure out how to do it. Does EA let me do that ?.

Thanks.

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General Board / Re: Encrypt data on connection to DB

« on: July 12, 2011, 06:42:29 pm »

Sometimes it is a right solution use SSH to create a encrypted tunnel between a client machine and a server (or a network). After that, you can trust the tunnel.

Of course, you could also use VPN, but this solution requires a little more infrastructure.

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General Board / Network design and/or documentation UML profile

« on: May 18, 2011, 07:31:01 pm »

Hello everybody,

I am interested in using UML for designing and/or document computer networks. I am thinking about using a UML profile, but I wonder if there is a standard profile available. When I say "standard", it can be replaced by "de facto standard" or a "common" or name it yourself. It could be the same case as the UML Data Model profile used for modeling Relational Databases.

I have been looking for this profile and I have not found anything interesting. Does anybody have any further information ?.

Thanks.

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General Board / Re: Diagram headings

« on: July 30, 2010, 05:22:12 pm »

Thanks Geert. It works. I can't figure out why this can't be done without dragging one diagram into another one.

Best regards.

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General Board / Diagram headings

« on: July 29, 2010, 06:21:48 pm »

I have been looking for this issue in EA help and in this forum and I haven't found anything related.

I wonder if is it possible to include the diagram heading (the rectangle at the upper left corner with lower right beveled corner) in EA diagrams.

Thanks.