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General Board / 'usys_system' value in EASchema_1220_SQLServer_Update1.sql causes error

« on: June 08, 2018, 07:05:02 am »

I'm guessing that nobody uses this update script, or if they do, they get this error and give up. Although there is one unanswered post about this if you search for 'usys_system'.

If you run this update script without previously the 'regular' sql schema script, you get an 'unknown object' type of error.

If you run the normal schema script and then run the update script, the error says that 'usys_system' is an error because it is a 'table type'.

If this ever gets fixed it will be because someone cares about this.

Thanks,

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General Board / Re: Find Command in EA 13

« on: June 15, 2017, 05:00:09 am »

Just saying, but that 'find command' doesn't seem to be able to locate anything by their previous 'well-known names'.
How much help is that?
Why not just say, 'We've changed the name and location of everything, and all the navigation containers and the names of all the navigation items, but we didn't care enough to give you a map'?
So if you don't know the new designations, we're sorry, but the new find tool can't help you, and all the documentation only describes the previous nomenclature and previous navigation.
That would be at least setting a fair expectation.

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General Board / New Version - New navigation Instructions?

« on: June 15, 2017, 04:54:18 am »

So I have version 13 of EA.
Now I can't find anything in the menu, ever at all.
could you not provide a utility to find the features by 'previous well-known name' so that all our previous experience, and all the information on the web could possibly be of help, including your own documentation?
If not, how do I find anything? I can't find anything!
Where, in language 13, do I navigate to change the default code language for all elements?
Thanks, kind of...

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Please eliminate the Internal customer conundr

« on: September 15, 2013, 11:22:20 am »

As a prospective buyer, I expect to be able to review prices and select an item to purchase.

As a purchaser, I expect to be able to create a login and a password for my Sparxsystems account during the workflow of the purchase.

As an Agreeing party to terms and conditions, I expect to be able to provide a method of payment, a purchase order (my internal tracking id) and edit my payment information , including my payment address, shipping address, business address, my authorized product administrator's name and email, as well as a general company email as a backup in case my personnel changes.

As a payment method submitter, I expect to receive verfication of payment and a printable copy of my order, including all information I submitted (excluding password's) that I have provided as my setup/account information, along with my order id, purchase order id, license number and/or product key, as well as a product download link address; or information as to when a subsequent email will be provided for a product download, and a link and a phone number for contact in case the email with the download instructions does not arrive, this contact URI's should be in operation at least part of every day in every week.

As a completed and licensed purchaser, I expect to be able to access my account using the Login id and password I created when I purchased my first product from Sparx.

As a logged in purchaser, I expect to be able to change my password as needed by means of a robust, secure process, I also expect to be able to edit all my account information, including the administrative email address and the company contact email addess, and including payment information, billing, shipping and company addresses.

As a viewer of my account information, I expect to see a list of all the purchases I have made from Sparx, including their date of purchase, the email address and name of the purchaser, the order id, the purchase order id, the receipt id, the product name, the product version, the original price and terms of the license, as well as a link I can use to re-download that product version and a link I can use to browse to a page where I can purchase an upgrade of the license of the product to currently supported version; and a link I can use to browse to a page where I can purchase an upgrade to a different product family if such upgrade is supported by the manufacturer; in my account page I expect to find links to all the add-on products that are compatible with each of my purchased products with download links for those that are free and purchase links to those that carry a price.

As a purchaser of a license upgrade or a product-family upgrade, or an add-on product upgrade, I expect to see that my list of purchased products includes additional purchase entries for each purchase in those categories, along with a relationship link to the product version I have previously purchased that each license, version, upgrade or add-on might be compatible with.

As a license purchaser, regardless of the status of my license, I REQUIRE that I be able to access my account information until I request my account be closed and have provided sufficient identity and confirmation information that can assure that such a request is authorized and is the intent of me or my organization as a purchaser.

As a forum member and a provider of this specification, I request that, if you develop and offer a service that provides substantially the same features as any three of the elements contained in this forum post, that you provide a permanent link on your public web site that presents the percentage of of increase of quarterly product sales and license renewals that you enjoy after implementing those features compared to the increase in quarterly product sales and license renewals you have enjoyed throughout the ten years prior to implementing any of these features.

Thanks,

Kimball Johnson

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Please eliminate the Internal customer conundr

« on: September 15, 2013, 10:40:53 am »

Some little comfort, thanks.

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Suggestions and Requests / Please eliminate the Internal customer conundrum!

« on: September 14, 2013, 11:37:29 am »

I continue to wish to use EA, despite the quirky perspective of Sparx Systems.

When will I be able (as a long-time customer/user/supporter of your product) to have a recognized status in your business environment.

Everyone else (on the retail.net) recognizes my globally transparent identity... why must you require that my identity be an internal windows SSID-based identity that exists only in your internal (non-internet) network?

As a long-time customer, I want to be able to present my (universally recognized) public identity and do business with your organization. But you are the only entity known to me (a 30-year veteran of the computer business) who requires that I have an authorized identity token on your internal network in order to do business with you.

If you believe this provides greater 'security', please think about 'to whom?'!

Why is it that I cannot log in to 'my account' on your B2C or B2B site and upgrade my license? (like I do on everyone else's vendor site)?

Count the dollars Adobe is making on the convenience of paying for software by-the-month. Could your system produce proportional income for your organization?

In the 1980's 'we' (obviously not you) taught corporate America that vendors who were 'integrated' were more economical and and provided higher service levels.

Today, customers spend millions to teach that concept to vendors!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-procurement
http://www.dgs.ca.gov/pd/Programs/eprocure.aspx
http://www.sciquest.com/resource-center/white-papers/top-five-barriers-successful-eprocurement
etc, etc...

May I please be the first to teach it to you!

I want your product!

I don't want to have to send an email to a salesperson to beg for the privilege of updating my license!

And I especially don't appreciate having to lose my ability to communicate with a 'primary vendor' every time the clock ticks twelve months!

GIVE ME A LOGIN THAT IS PERSISTED!

Amazon does that, what's (wrong) with you guys?

You don't CARE about your customers?

I want to pay you your fermenting license fee!

Give me a site where I can chunk over the cash!!

Thank you!!!

Kimball Johnson

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Suggestions and Requests / Please post a web site menu item for Renewals!!!!!

« on: October 20, 2010, 04:47:44 am »

Every year I have to go through this process of searching through your web pages to find the link embedded somewhere in the text that allows me to request a renewal.

When I find it,it turns out to be an email link that does not populate the subject line so when I enter my license key or whatever in the body, I send it and get no answer and then I have to figure out that you probably got it but ignored it because there was no subject line.

Couldn't you create a web form that created a request and sent back an email to send back to you from within my system? That would be dependable, locatable, secure and indicate that you had integrated this renewal process into a system operation in your company's workflow.

Thanks,

Kimball Johnson

 

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General Board / can relationship matrix show keys in data tables?

« on: June 25, 2011, 05:09:17 am »

Hi,

I would like to use the relationship matrix ot be able to document PK/FK relations between tables I have imported by ODBC.

Since the tables are represented by the 'table' stereotype, I cannot see them when I select the package where the tables are located.

I am not sure whether it is the 'table' stereotype of the element or the 'FK' and 'PK' stereotype of the Connector that is the probelm or something else.

Do you have any suggestions or alternatives?

Thanks,

Kimball

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General Board / generate unit test step-by-step instructions?

« on: June 28, 2011, 03:41:22 am »

Hi,

I'm beginning to wonder if your docs are up to date.

I followed the instructions (scattered around as they seem to be) to generate unit tests from an imported code directory.

However, the docs refer to an operation using the 'generate' facility (F11) but when I perform that operation, there is no reference to an option for unit tests or nunit, or...

So where in the docs is the precise list of steps for creating a unit test class based on an imported class with public methods?

Thanks,

Kimball

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General Board / Re: generate from behavioral models

« on: June 27, 2011, 01:47:00 pm »

Ok, I'll look at the example you mentioned.

But I'm getting dizzy.

I fully expect to see an example in which all the artifacts are previously genarated and the process of generation is not displayed.

I am working my way through the examples with the goal of adopting all these features as standard methodologies in my company's practice.

Therefore I have spent quite some time trying with only modest success to cull from the examples, the learning guid and the help file what should be the complete process.

So please do not be surprized if I come back tomorrow with some more detailed questions about this.

THanks,

Kimblal

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General Board / Re: generate from behavioral models

« on: June 27, 2011, 09:03:02 am »

Ok, I believe you.

However, my confusion comes from not understanding how one is supposed to 'generate the class from the state machine' if the class has to be in existence first, and especially if the state machine has to be created 'under' the class.

THis is very chickeny-eggish to me.

Thanks,

Kimball

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General Board / generate from behavioral models

« on: June 25, 2011, 10:40:11 am »

Hi,

As usual, I'm having trouble finding the specific instructions needed to do some of the cooler things in EA.

I'm trying to track down the steps to generate a class from a state machine diagram.

My goal is to actually design code with a state-ful mentality rather than following the canonical 'stream of consciousness' zone-ful method we usually get stuck in.

However, in the EAExample.eap, I cannot find any statem machine or state that enables the 'generate current element' option in any of the locations where this menu item is displayed.

Nor can I find any example in the learning center that actually performs this step.

So I can find references to the feature but none to the precise requirements that make it work.

Please tell me what I'm missing.

Thanks,

Kimball

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General Board / top margin for diagrams to contain diagram details

« on: June 25, 2011, 10:07:20 am »

Hi,

Is it possible to configure a diagram so that the diagram details text is in a 'top margin' so that the layout feature doesn't scoot the elements into that space?

The diagram details feature seems pretty useless to me if all the other features won't respect it's existence.

Thanks,

Kimball

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General Board / replacement tokens for compilers and debuggers?

« on: June 23, 2011, 12:28:32 pm »

I'm struggling with the ui pages for testing and execution analyzing and I can't find a bunch of stuff that seems like it should be obvious.

Like 'add a script'...

But more than that, I can't run the execution scripts or tests because I don't know how to point the '%MSVS%' or '%VEA%' tokens to the current installation of MSVS 2010, which is in a folder who's naming convention has changed since VS 2008.

So where are these things, please?

I find no reference to this stuff in the docs.

Thanks,

Kimball

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General Board / Re: Anyt Plans to support BPMN 2.0?

« on: December 14, 2010, 09:17:24 am »

Well, I'm very glad to hear you are well past the 'haven't heard about it' stage!

I'll be looking forward to your announcement in the 'sometime soon' timeframe.

And I'm confident you will produce a fine product for us.

Thanks very much,

Kimball Johnson