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Suggestions and Requests / Out of Model Model Mail

« on: August 25, 2011, 06:48:21 pm »

Well, I say, Model Mail is great.  

Now want I want to do is email from Outlook into my model mail account. So, someone has sent me an important document, perhaps with an attachment. I want to trace my requirements to this email. If I could send it to the model and institute it as a model element, way to go!  8-)

And do I want to email from the model to the outside world?   Heck yeh! "In response to your email, Ms Client, I'm delighted to offer you our draft design which I think addresses your requirements".

What do you think?  

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General Board / Re: Teamworking: which locking method?

« on: August 19, 2011, 11:16:33 pm »

A more fundamental question is, do we really need locking for most of our model data? See that with a shared model on an e.g. SQL DBMS repository and version control under Subversion, concurrent working within a package by multiple users might not involve frequent merging as long as the users refresh their views.

Please can people shed light on this either theory or shared experience?

I understand that locks are necessary for non-mergeable files, such as bitmaps, etc.

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General Board / Re: Teamworking: which locking method?

« on: August 19, 2011, 10:07:35 pm »

I found my answer here:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/WhitePapers/Version_Control.pdf

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General Board / Teamworking: which locking method?

« on: August 19, 2011, 08:29:17 pm »

Teamworking: which locking method?Hi All
Searched for similar posts  
Using a version control tool that supports file-locking is sufficient for us. However, having just enabled user security, I'm intrigued to know under what circumstances it is more beneficial to use the EA locking method rather than the version control locking method. Clearly, EA's method allows locking of individual elements whereas the version control method does not. So what are the other pros/cons?
Thanks
Matthew

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General Board / Model Organisation - best practice?

« on: June 06, 2011, 07:47:25 pm »

Hello There

I’ve run into some trouble with a large project containing several models. One model is a “common” model for document templates, standard types, a library of actors, etc. Other models relate to different products within our organisation, so there are links between the elements in the “common” model and other models, and a some links between the different products too.

I’m using SQL backend and Subversion and it has all worked very well so far. I recently upgraded to 9 (build 905) and was lax in not checking everything in. After the upgrade there was a failure to checkin – problems with links between XML files. Doing a resync VC status, it appeared that the packages were committed. I then did a get all latest and the model reverted to an older state. I can recreate as I had generated documents that I can use to help.

My question is really about model organisation. Are there any white papers or other guidelines on structuring a large project with multiple models. I’m tempted to have a single model (and single VC model repository) so there are no links between elements of items in different VC model repositories. The idea is to prevent the model VC versions from getting out of sync.

In looking at this subject, I’ll also be interested in best practice / advice on structuring packages within models where the contents relate to different, but related products.


Very best regards

Matthew

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General Board / Re: UML Modelling of SQL Server Designs

« on: November 12, 2009, 08:31:37 pm »

Thank you for your reply Wowbagger!

It helps in the sense I realise I need to make my query clearer. I am familiar with EA's adeptness at data modelling of tables, and also with its close integration with Visual Studio for forward and reverse engineering of table designs.

I want an example of the UML support for Enterprise level modelling of the broad collection of SQL Technologies, ideally with SQL Profile(s) covering SQL Server 2000 through to 2008. So the problem is how to depict in an Enterprise level design model the various SQL Server components and packages (e.g. SSIS) alongside other technologies, such as WebServices etc.

IHTH  

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General Board / UML Modelling of SQL Server Designs

« on: November 11, 2009, 08:03:11 pm »

A few hours of searching and I can't find either:

• a comprehensive UML model example of SQL Server designs (ranging from table designs, views and queries right through to SSIS packages etc).
• a UML Profile for SQL Server design.

Any leads anybody? Could be of considerable use to many of us  

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Forum's Notify of Replies doesn't work

« on: May 05, 2012, 12:30:02 am »

I'm still getting none, nor any spam. I have checked my email address via  contact information in my profile. Oh well!  8-)

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Bugs and Issues / Forum's Notify of Replies doesn't work

« on: April 24, 2012, 11:35:18 pm »

As it says on the tin. I've checked my email address.
Does anyone else have notifications when there is a reply to a thread they've posted?

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Uml Process / Re: Set an Element's Default Appearance

« on: May 23, 2012, 07:31:18 pm »

Thanks for your help - I was resistant to trying that approach because I just want to be able to select multiple lines (e.g. ctrl-click) and apply en-mass. However, ctrl-click on a line has another effect, so if there's no other way to do it I'll use styles (and enjoy the sunshine!  .

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Uml Process / Re: Set an Element's Default Appearance

« on: May 05, 2012, 12:22:39 am »

Hi Simon

Are you actually wanting to override it so that every information flow created gets the specified colour?

Yes - that's entirely right. Is there a way?
Cheers
Matthew  

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Uml Process / Set an Element's Default Appearance

« on: April 24, 2012, 11:28:43 pm »

The Help system says
"To override the global appearance and define a default appearance for a specific element on all diagrams on which it is found, you use the Default Appearance dialog."

Access     Double-click element | Appearance | Default Appearance

OK, the "elements" I want to change the default line color on all diagrams are information flows. They are not selectable in the browser. I can right-click and select Appearance but this doesn't give the option to set default appearance.

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Uml Process / Re: Reverse Engineered Sequences

« on: April 16, 2012, 11:00:53 pm »

Can anyone help with that? (i.e. connecting the debugger to a webserver).

We have a Web Service where we would like to debug and generate sequence charts of the business layer, but can not get is to work. Using a stand alone application works fine, or connecting to a process of an executable, but not a hosted service. Our code being built typically is a dll and not an executable and the host process is either IIS or WCF Service Host (if run from Visual Studio). Attaching to either of theses processes does not work.

Just an idea about DLLs - perhaps you can instrument an interface layer that dummies the DLL calls?? This worked with another tool but I haven't yet got to grips with EAs animation capabilities, so this could be way off track.

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Uml Process / Re: Reverse Engineered Sequences

« on: March 30, 2012, 12:53:04 am »

Thank you. Does this require heavy scripting? I know the sample will provide the answer but we are under a heavy workload so I want to assess whether to invest time at present or delay this research.  

Incidentally, the forum 'Notify of replies:' checkbox doesn't work for me. My email address is correct and it's not stopped in Junk.

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Uml Process / Reverse Engineered Sequences

« on: March 20, 2012, 03:13:31 am »

Hello EA Community
I would like to know if, by connecting EA to C# code via MDG link, it is possible to trace the execution of the code and reverse engineer the sequences that the code runs through?
I hope EA can do it  
If anybody has experience of it and can point me at an exemplar model to get started with, that'd be great.
Cheers all,
Matthew