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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Structured Scenarios - Multiple Alternate Flow

« on: March 07, 2011, 03:32:17 pm »

   I would hope it would be announced!    Alan

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Structured Scenarios - Multiple Alternate Flow

« on: March 07, 2011, 05:03:44 am »

   I agree that this would be a good enhancement.  

   I am also frustrated that I cannot get a general timeframe (not a specific date) for the release of the next major version of EA.

                                    Alan

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Structured Scenarios: Search & Replace, and Co

« on: March 07, 2011, 05:05:40 am »

Thanks for adding your opinion.  Hopefully, other users will add their support for this.

   I am also frustrated that I cannot get a general timeframe (not a specific date) for the release of the next major version of EA.  Some of the "enhancements" are required to make structured scenarios very useful.

                                    Alan

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Suggestions and Requests / Structured Scenarios: Search & Replace, and Copy

« on: December 19, 2010, 02:46:25 am »

   For Structured Scenarios to be more useful and not require a lot of manual effort, users need to be able to copy them (so you can mark up one that is similar to another) and to search and replace text (e.g., to make wording consistent, change actors, etc.

    I would urge Sparx to put these capabilities into 8.1.

                            Alan

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Suggestions and Requests / Support for Java Add-Ins

« on: November 18, 2010, 10:04:30 am »

  Request that EA support Add-Ins that are written in Java.

You can use Java with the automation interface but it is not possible to use it for an add-in.

                              Alan

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General Board / Question re RTF reporting in Tables

« on: June 01, 2011, 11:39:49 pm »

    I have a table that reports relationships among requirements, plus some requirements attributes (extended tags via UML profile).  

    I need to report out the following in each row: higher-level requirement name, higher-level requirement attribute, lower-level (linked) requirement name,  lower-level (linked) requirement attribute).

    I run into a problem with the third one (lower-level (linked) requirement name).  When I use the RTF editor to insert the connector/source/element, it only pertains to that single cell, like this:

connector >
source >
element >
{Element.Name}
< element
< source

    I want the next column's cell to contain the linked (lower-level) equirement's attribute, but there appears to be no way to do this.

   Is there a way to do this in EA 8?   If not, is there a way to do this in EA 9?  

    I am using the latest EA v 8 build.        Thanks, Alan

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General Board / Re: No Trace relationship found???

« on: May 22, 2011, 10:03:21 pm »

Is this not possible in version 8?

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General Board / No Trace relationship found???

« on: May 19, 2011, 10:24:24 pm »

     I defined SysML <<trace>> relationships between two sets of requirements.  However, they do not show up as Connectors when I generate an RTF report!!

    My RTF template may be found below.  Any assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

                       Thanks, Alan

package >element >
{Element.Name}      {Element.Notes}      {Element.valueOf(Priority)}      

connector >
source >
element >
Connector Source:  {Element.Name}
< element
< source
target >
element >
Connector Target: {Element.Name}
< element
< target
< connector

child elements >
< child elements
< element
child packages >

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General Board / Reporting Tagged Value

« on: May 18, 2011, 11:10:17 am »

   In EA 8 (latest build), is there a way to search for a custom tag value?  If not, is there a way to generate an RTF report that displays the custom tag value?

                                 Thanks, Alan

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General Board / Problem with RTF Output for Custom Tagged Value

« on: May 18, 2011, 12:25:52 pm »

   I am using EA 8, latest build.  I have created a UML profile that extends the Requirement class, and I added a Tagged Value called DocImpact.  DocImpact is an enumerated field with the possible values of Yes or No.  

    When I generate a report that should print this value in the third column of a table, I get instead the RTF Template tag string, like this:

{Element.valueOf(DocImpact)[ch1917]

on many of the entries.  Others are blank.  

My RTF template has the following in it:

Req. ID      Requirement Text      Documentation Impact?
package >element >
{Element.Name}      {Element.Notes}      {Element.Tag}{Element.valueOf(DocImpact)}
child elements >
< child elements
< element

child packages >
< child packages
< package

       Anyone know what is going wrong here?        

                     Thanks, Alan

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General Board / SysML <<copy>> relationship for Reqiurements

« on: May 16, 2011, 08:36:12 am »

The EA User's Guide says the following about the SysML <<copy>> relationship among requirements:

"Declare a copy of one SysML Requirement by another."

      It seems to me that the Notes of the source requirement would be copied into the target requirement.  However, it appears that <<copy>> is simply treated as another relationship.

       Thoughts?       Alan

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General Board / Re: Project Browser Display Settings

« on: May 16, 2011, 01:00:43 am »

Thank you.  I missed that setting.

I really don`t need more granularity, and there are many more things in EA that are in worse shape, and need work.

                Alan

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General Board / Project Browser Display Settings

« on: May 15, 2011, 01:24:48 am »

Is it possible in EA to make the Project Browser not display stereotypes, e.g., for requirements?

I just want to see the requirement names.  Need some easy way to change browser display settings once elements exist.

Thanks, Alan

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General Board / Re: Project Glossary

« on: May 15, 2011, 10:15:17 am »

CheriS,

    A glossary is part of the project's documentation.  So, different projects have different glossaries as default.  (You can import and export them.)

                                   Alan

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General Board / How to order listing of linked elements

« on: May 14, 2011, 12:51:42 pm »

When generating an RTF report which lists related requirements for each use case, I cannot seem to get an order by the name of the requirement (i.e., the requirement ID).  I tried the document option of ordering elements "by name", but that did not do it.

Is there a way to do this?         Thanks, Alan