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General Board / Customize contents of Diagram Notes

« on: December 04, 2020, 06:55:08 pm »

Is there any way to define what text shall be shown in the "Diagram Notes" common element?

By default, it shows diagram

• name,
• author,
• version,
• created timestamp,
• updated timestamp.

I would love to skip the version and restrict the timestamps to the day and omit the time. The manual ^{https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.0/modeling/addpropertiesnote.html} states: "You cannot change the content". Is that really true? 

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General Board / Re: Hide stereotype label from UML component

« on: December 04, 2020, 06:49:35 pm »

Ok, thanks. This works but is a ... rather inconvenient approach. 

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General Board / Re: Hide stereotype label from UML component

« on: November 19, 2020, 10:29:01 pm »

Code: [Select]

shape label
{
    print("");
}

A pity, but doesn't work for me.

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General Board / Hide stereotype label from UML component

« on: November 19, 2020, 03:20:48 am »

In a diagram, I want to not show the stereotype label of elements which are of a certain stereotype (because I need to modify the element's layout using shape script which I can only achieve for stereotyped elements).

According to the manual ^{https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/drawing_methods.html},

Code: [Select]

shape middlebottomlabel { print(""); }
should "suppress the default stereotype label", but it doesn't. Even if I use the middletoplabel. Or any other label. Even

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hidelabel("middletoplabel")

or middlebottomlabel doesn't hide thelabel.

To hide all stereotype label as suggested at StackOverflow ^{https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54693762/how-to-hide-stereotypes-labels-from-my-profile} is not an option for me, since some elements need a visible stereotype.

What do I miss? Any hint?

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General Board / Re: Modify minimal height of UML model elements?

« on: November 19, 2020, 03:13:24 am »

Thanks, that's it.

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General Board / Re: Modify minimal height of UML model elements?

« on: November 16, 2020, 09:30:35 pm »

Terribly sorry to bother, but that didn't help.

Feeling like a bloody noob, I was desperatedly searching for a HOWTO, even for setting up a Template Package so that also non-stereotyped elements wouldn't waste the height, but did not find any.

Here's what I did:

• Open UML Types dialogue (Ribbon Configure → Reference Date → UML Types).
• Select steretyped element from list.
• Select 'Shape Script' in 'Override Appearance' frame, select 'Edit'.
• Tried various script fragments (e.g. shape main { defsize(50,50); }).
  

But this is apparently not what I was suggested to do since it generates either errors or prevents my component from being rendered at all.

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General Board / Re: Modify minimal height of UML model elements?

« on: November 16, 2020, 08:15:52 pm »

I had a look at the shape script guide ^{(https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/14.0/modeling_tools/usingtheshapescript.html)} but was not able to find a shape attribute which defines the minimal height/width. Could you help me out?

Guessing

Code: [Select]

shape main {
cy = "120";
}
didn't work out as hoped:
Error parsing ShapeScript: There was an error parsing  on line 2. Unexpected symbol: cy

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General Board / Modify minimal height of UML model elements?

« on: November 13, 2020, 06:07:54 pm »

Hi all,

The visualization of UML model elements respects minimal width and height of the displayed element's bounding box.

However, the minimal height of a component is imho too high which wastes a lot of space in diagrams. The height of the component box twice the height of the component icon. Looks inappropriate.

How can I modify the element's minimal height or switch off the min width/height check in general?

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Keystore Service on virtual host: change of CPUs leads to Active Directory issue

« on: February 13, 2020, 10:27:08 pm »

No, we did not yet upgrade to 15.1. I will check this as soon our IT support feels comfortable again. But since the problem also exists for Sparx Systems Key Store Service and SSKS Manager, which is at version 2.3 since January 2016, I doubt that a new client will change the behaviour. Seems as if rather SSKS Service causes the problem.

And yes, I dilberted valid hostnames & user IDs manually for privacy purposes. I am sorry if that caused any irritation. What is SSKSAnonymous::dilbertsmachine\dilbert after the malicious CPU change is AD_group_name::host_name\user_name when everything works.

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Bugs and Issues / Keystore Service on virtual host: change of CPUs leads to Active Directory issue

« on: February 13, 2020, 09:16:50 pm »

This is to warn other users who might run into similar troubles.

We have set up a Sparx Keystore Server to maintain our Enterprise Architect Corporate floating licenses using the Active Directory authentication method. Due to the limited performance requirements, we are using a virtual machine with a single CPU.

This worked well for some time. Since we experienced performance issues concerning the machine’s interactivity at boot time, we increased the number of virtual CPUs from 1 to 2. From this time on, we were unable to check out any EA license. When eventually returning to let the virtual machine use only a single CPU, everything returned to normal.

This one was rather tricky since there is no obvious connection between the cause of the error and the observed symptoms. 

Details of observed behaviour

After increasing the number of CPUs, EA was still able to contact the license server (using the “Test” button when entering the SSKS data), but there was no “Product” offered to select. This usually means that the user is not member of the required AD group. The Keystore Manager application was able to contact the License Service and displayed the correct number of stored floating license. Unfortuately, it was unable to show the details (list of licenses, check out time, user, valid until etc) but showed a ‘connection lost’ error instead.

The ssks logfile did not give useful hints. In fact, it was misleading. Reasserting a checked out license failed:

REASSERT FAIL, dilbert, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect build 1513, xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx, EA Corporate Edition, SSKSAnonymous:: dilbertsmachine\dilbert,  Error: User 'dilbert' not permitted to checkout product EA Corporate Edition

Checking out licenses just failed without notice.

Since it appeared that the AD authentication no longer worked, I added a section to the auth config:

GROUP
       Name=SSKSAnonymous
       IsManager=false
END GROUP

and as expected, the KeyStore Manager was able to show the license details. However, we were not able to find any problem with the AD configuration.

It took some serious effort to analyze the situation. Eventually we gave up and had the idea to return to single CPU which turned out to solve the problem.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: IPv6 connection to license server

« on: February 13, 2020, 08:08:46 pm »

More than 3 years later, is there any update on this issue?

Not being able to use a floating license server when having to connect via DirectAccess appears to be ... rather non-desirable for a not super-small IT company. 

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Creating a Second Keystore

« on: September 09, 2019, 10:15:02 pm »

Would have been great if it were possible to just start a 2nd server instance listening a different port.

Unfortunately, administrative overhead for a 2nd license server is not always negligible. 

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General Board / Customize Properties Dialog Behaviour?

« on: June 12, 2018, 06:43:16 pm »

Is it possible to customize the behavior when a properties dialog is opened? I find it very annoying that in a state chart a transition dialog opens with the "Guards" property tab activated. I would prefer the "General" property tab.

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General Board / Access keystore file non-interactively?

« on: April 16, 2018, 06:05:50 pm »

Hi all,

I would like to analyze the usage of our file-based floating licenses (e.g. who, when, how often). At the moment, I am using the Keystore Manager utility which provides all the required data. However, for data acquisition, the tool is rather inconvenient. Is there any intended way to retrieve the data using a regularly executed script?

Cheers,
rty

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Options / Links / Default Link Style

« on: February 11, 2016, 02:27:40 am »

Sometimes, it seems to me that Sparx focusses on developing new features instead of completing the basic functions - like this one.

Of course: from the marketing view it sounds better to announce a new diagram type "Roadmap-Diagram" [...]

Right. That appears to be the traditional life cycle. About a decade ago, EA was the not too known but most awesome UML modelling tool around. That was apparently recognized by people who wanted to use it and therefor bought it (like me). That's nice, but at some point, the user base stops increasing at the desired rate. If business people take over, they do not want to maintain the current user base, but unveil new realms, bringing lots of new users. Therefor, new and sometimes weird features must be added, just to address this new community. Reapeat this until the product is big and clumsy. If it is clumsy enough, the user base starts to watch out for a new young and awesome tool.

Seen that several times. A pity. Maybe it's inevitable if not developing open source software?

I feel increasingly embarrassed when I introduce new users into the oddities of the EA user interface.