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Suggestions and Requests / Undelete

« on: October 15, 2009, 01:15:41 am »

We are deploying Enterprise Architect with a Oracle database backend to a 100+ user environnement.

Of course, we do take backups every single night.

Could it be possible to have some sort of "undelete" functionality ?

The whole restore/export/import process is very long and with such a big user base, errors are prone to happen.

I am thinking of a new checkbox that would show deleted artefacts (including diagrams and packages) in the the project browser.

I have no ideas how this could work with deleted links.

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Suggestions and Requests / XMI Import/export includes references

« on: May 01, 2009, 01:58:49 am »

It would be nice if, while doing an xmi import or export (also available through baselines), that referenced artefacts from outside the package being imported are considered.

We have a growing model where we reuse existing elements from other "packages of the model". When we baseline, those elements that are used within the baselined package are not considered. This leaves us with the problematic of baselining the entire model, which takes a long time.

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Suggestions and Requests / UML and BPMN interop

« on: April 07, 2009, 04:10:14 am »

It would be nice if I were able to use a UML Actor in a BPMN process as a pool. There could be a "Display as pool (or lane)" option on the Actor when on a BPMN diagram surface.

Also, it would be great if there was a relationship between a pool (or lane) and it`s contents (other than owed) so that we could take the activities and classify them elsewhere in the model.

Also, is there a difference between the activities (from uml activity diagrams) and the activities (in the BPMN diagrams) ?

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Suggestions and Requests / ElementGUID

« on: April 03, 2009, 02:38:32 am »

We are starting to use EA as the central hub for information for a few projects. This said, it would be fun if we could "right-click" on a element (or diagram), select "Copy Unique Identifier to Clipboard" and then paste that "GUID" into something else (i.e. word or code).

There should be an option in the "Element" menu to "find Element by Unique Identifier", that would query the user for a GUID. If a GUID is on the clipboard, the space could be prepopulated. It would the locate the element in the project browser and the first diagram would be displayed.

It would be really cool if we could provide the "Element GUID" on the command line to launch EA and have the right thing show right away.

URL Monikers could also be used :
so we could go into Window`s Run prompt, and type : SparxEA://./c:/models/mymodel.eap/Element={123-123-412-3123-123}

That way we could really link things together.

Any thouhts ?

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Suggestions and Requests / Default Web Template file naming

« on: April 03, 2009, 02:43:58 am »

It would be nice if when generating a website, the html page associated to each element (or diagram) would contain it`s UUID. That way, when regenerating a website, any links in place would not be broken.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Model Version

« on: March 19, 2009, 12:21:47 am »

I have looked at the baseline, compare modules; but unfortunatly, they do not offer the flexibility to work on two different versions of the same model.

The idea would be to model the current and target states of the same model, and then being able to promote changes from one to the other in an easy way.

And since there is no way to "duplicate a model", and compare both copies, it's hard to maintain two different views of the same model.

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Suggestions and Requests / Model Version

« on: March 11, 2009, 05:30:23 am »

It would be nice if a Model could support multiple versions (i.e. Current vs. Target vs. Project 01-New Infrastructure)

At it's simplest form, I would allow the user to branch a new model, off of an existing one (the base). Changes to the charged artefacts in the base would automtically flow and be reflected in the branch. Changes in the branched model would be queued up and would not flow automatically to the base model.

There would be a promote option on the branched model that would sync the queued changed from the branched model to the base model. Another option would just show the differences between two branches.

I would see this as a combobox, somewhere in the corner, that changes the state of the model I am viewing.

With this feature, I would be able to branch model the current system, the target system. Every project would branch off of the current system and alter it, when that project is finished, changes would be promoted back to the current system (and indirectly synced to each other model that was branched off of the current).

I would love to discuss this feature more in details.

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Suggestions and Requests / Print All Diagrams

« on: March 31, 2009, 05:17:59 am »

It would be fun if there was an option on a package (or composite artefact) that would allow to print all diagrams recursively...

When we discuss a module, people want to prepare quickly and right now have to go on each diagram and print it.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Model DrillDown

« on: March 19, 2009, 12:23:33 am »

If the "trace" or "refine" dependency associations are the ones that can be used to drill-down, it would be fun if an artifact (in a diagram) that has such a link would havwe a special button that would allow for this easy drill-down.

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Suggestions and Requests / Model DrillDown

« on: March 11, 2009, 05:33:29 am »

It would be nice if there was a way to describe a drill down feature, so that I can "drill down" from the Conceptual, to the Logical, to the Physical Layer.

Right now, I need to name things similarly in 3 different packages; and there is nothing associating them together..

Maybe a new kind of relationship "Describes, or DrillDown".

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Command Line extraction

« on: March 19, 2009, 01:52:16 am »

Yep, that`s a little piece of code I`ve been writing for each and everyone of my clients.

The problem is, the code doesn`t belong to me, but to my clients, so I end up writing the same thing over and over.

I am a .net programmer, but i go to a client that doesn`t use .net, i don`t have the tools to write this program, and then the problem starts.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Command Line extraction

« on: March 19, 2009, 12:01:09 am »

I looked rapidly at the page you mentionned and can`t find anything where i could type : ea /htmlsite:model/business/componentView

Thanks, Erik.

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Suggestions and Requests / Command Line extraction

« on: March 11, 2009, 08:13:32 am »

It would be cool if there where a few command line switches that could be used to generate a html web site or a rtf document automatically.

We could then use this in a automated script.

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Suggestions and Requests / Importe / Update XSD Schema

« on: March 11, 2009, 05:07:18 am »

It would be very cool if EA could update an already imported XSD schema. I would use this feature right away to annotate the imported models and offer tracability to other models to support knowledge. Right now, without an update feature, we are resistant to doing this as every new XSD version will require redoing the work.

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Suggestions and Requests / Link connector to inner feature

« on: March 11, 2009, 05:09:16 am »

It would be cool if the atttribute or operation linked to (in the new EA beta 1) would show up in the Relationship view and the Hierarchy view.

This would make the reports usable.