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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Model Validation Report Includes object Links

« on: December 17, 2012, 07:47:38 pm »

Thanks KP

I did try to right click on the element, but the report looks like a dump so it never occured to me to double click on it.

S

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Suggestions and Requests / Model Validation Report Includes object Links

« on: December 14, 2012, 10:46:37 pm »

Hi Support.

As a team we are using the Model Validation tool to find requirements that are not realized. The validation report is great for finding those un-mapped requirements but it would be good if you could right click on the item in the report and find it in the project browser. That way you can go directly from the report to the browser, pick up the requirement and then map it to a model element without having to manually find the requirement in the project browser.

I hope that other users will find this useful.

Steve

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Suggestions and Requests / Suggestion : Protocol Message Designer

« on: August 24, 2012, 03:06:38 am »

Hi EA.

I would like to suggest a feature to add into EA which would be really neat.

I would like you to add a protocol message designer which would be similar to a table with headings such as

    Index    Size    Description     Defined Values
    ====    ===   ========    ===========

And from this I could define a set of messages between 2 nodes as a byte array. The neat bit would be the code generator side of this as it could generate code for different languages (C# etc).

This is a similar feature to IDL (Interface definitioin language) which is used for DDS etc.

An example table would be

    Index    Size    Description     Defined Values
    ====   ===   ========   ===========
       0          2      Header ID         1 = Command
                                                  2 = Response
       2          2      Length              value between 2 & 65534
       4          1      Param              etc


This could be used by system designers to define the interface in EA as opposed to in word, and then generate the docs and code direct from EA.

Thanks in advance

Steve

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Shortcut keys for arrows in Project Browser

« on: March 21, 2012, 07:46:35 pm »

Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down

Thanks simon. It's all in there, just need to find it.

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Suggestions and Requests / Shortcut keys for arrows in Project Browser

« on: March 20, 2012, 08:31:59 pm »

Hi Sparx

Should be an easy one, but in the contect menu in the project browser, there is an up and down arrow used for ordering items in the project browser.

Would you please add some keyboard shortcuts to make this simpler to order elements in this view.

Thanks

Steve

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General Board / Adding the model baseline to a generated document

« on: February 20, 2013, 04:13:48 am »

Hi All

Does anybody know how to add a model baseline version as a field in the document template?

I guess that you can add it as a custom field but not sure what field.

Thanks in advance.

Steve

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General Board / Re: Doc Gen Requirements Realized by Embedded Elem

« on: December 19, 2012, 07:47:11 pm »

Thanks for the reply.

I have my child element empty section empty.

child element >
< child element

and I can get composite diagram to print out, but still no requirements.

Steve

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General Board / Doc Gen Requirements Realized by Embedded Elements

« on: December 18, 2012, 07:52:23 pm »

Hi

I am trying to get the document generator to print requirements (responsibilities) that are mapped to embedded elements of a component diagram.

I can print my requirements for normal components using the responsibilities table

external requirements >
Column 1: {ElemExtRequirement.Name}
Column 2: {ElemExtRequirement.Notes}
< external requirements

And I can get the Embedded elements table to display the requirements identifier (name) using the realizes field in with the following table

embedded elements >
Column 1 :  {EmbeddedElement.Type} {EmbeddedElement.Name}
Column 2 :  {EmbeddedElement.Realizes}
Column 3 :  {EmbeddedElement.Notes}
< embedded elements

But i can not get it to print the requirement text for the embedded elements.

Can anybody please help.

Thanks

Steve

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General Board / Re: Delete A Document Template

« on: December 20, 2012, 12:44:57 am »

Thanks Robert.

I hadn't spotted that tab.

Steve

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General Board / Delete A Document Template

« on: December 19, 2012, 08:03:44 pm »

Hi

Can anybody tell me how to delete a document template.

I have been through seemingly everything I can think of and can not delete a template from the project.

Thanks

Steve

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General Board / Re: Baselines in Generated Document

« on: October 10, 2012, 11:08:09 pm »

Hi Stefan

Thanks for the reply. I am more than happy to beta an add in. I am not sure how I can receive it as I am working behind a firewall which blocks access to some sites, and my outlook blocks many types of attachments.

But if we can get it too me, I will definately try it.

Steve

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General Board / Baselines in Generated Document

« on: October 10, 2012, 07:05:08 pm »

Hi

I want to add the package baseline version number into a generated document to add tracability between the model and a generated document.

Does anybody know how to do this please.

Thanke

S

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General Board / Doc Gen Including External Document

« on: October 02, 2012, 07:11:49 pm »

I am trying to include a document from outside EA (external on file system) as part of a document generated from the model.

I've tried loads of things with document artifacts within a package and linking it to an file and I have managed to get the filename of the document included in the generated file but not the actual contents of the document.

Any clues please

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General Board / Timing Diagrams

« on: September 26, 2012, 02:30:18 am »

Hi all

Thanks for all your help thus far.

I am using a timing diagram in state mode to show the interaction between some buttons on my UI (from the UI designer) and some outputs from my component diagrams in my model.

When I drag the button onto the timing diagram as a timeline I would have expected the properties from the button to appear in the notes for the new timeline, instead it simply creates a new timeline with an instance name based on the button ( eg TimeLine1: MyButton) that I have dragged on and no notes

Do you have any help please on how, or if this should work.

Thanks in advance.

Steve

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General Board / Help: Ports and Interfaces 2

« on: September 20, 2012, 01:41:55 am »

Hi All

I wanted to tap in on all of your experience as I can't find the correct way to model a particular issue ... thanks in advance for reading.

I have a system with a number of I/O lines (signal A, signal B etc) and a multi-port I/O card (Port A:0 - 7, Port B: 0-7 etc) and I am working in the component model.

I wish to generate a diagram which allows me to create an I/O card component and then add each bit of each port. I then wish to link each signal to a specific I/O Port, for example

 Port A Bit 3 - Signal A
 Port B Bit 2 - Signal B

I can draw the diagram and feel happy with this, but when I generate the document I would like to see a table somewhere that says

 Port A Bit 0
 Port A Bit 1
 Port A Bit 2
 Port A Bit 3 - Signal A
 ...

 Port B Bit 0
 Port B Bit 1
 Port B Bit 2 - Signal B
 ...

Hence describes my I/O mapping in both diagram and document.

Can anybody reccomend how I achieve this please as I'm running out of ideas of how to achieve this

Thanks

Steve