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Suggestions and Requests / Extend Diagram Legend Connector Functionality

« on: December 09, 2015, 06:47:10 pm »

The current legend functionality for connectors is insufficient for describing their intention. I would like to see two enhancements
- more line styles (e.g. dashed)
- arrowheads (e.g. none, solid, hollow, open)
to create legends for UML style connectors

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Show stereotypes on ArchiMate elements

« on: June 17, 2015, 10:14:43 pm »

I believe the reason they aren't is because ArchiMate doesn't have a concept of stereotypes.

Fair comment.

However, ArchiMate itself intends "to provide a means to allow extensions of the core language that are tailored towards such specific domains or applications, without burdening the core with a lot of additional concepts and notations ... The remainder of this section is devoted to a number of possible extension mechanisms that, in addition to the core, are or can become part of the ArchiMate language." It mentions profiles and UML stereotypes as means of achieving language extensibility. (http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/archimate2-doc/chap09.html).

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Suggestions and Requests / Show stereotypes on ArchiMate elements

« on: June 16, 2015, 08:01:45 pm »

If stereotypes are being applied to ArchiMate elements, the stereotypes do not show up on diagrams (independent whether you choose rectangle or non-rectangle notation).

Stereotypes (as well as tags) should be shown for ArchiMate elements.

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Suggestions and Requests / Column width of Select <<Item>> Dialog

« on: February 19, 2015, 07:49:24 pm »

When the search tab of the select item dialog is opened, the columns should use all the available space of the window. On my system, all the columns together only occupy half of the window's width.

I'd suggest use half of the window width for the "Path" column and evenly distribute the remaining space to the other columns

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General Board / How to add an existing fork/join to an activity di

« on: October 17, 2014, 11:35:28 pm »

How to add an existing fork/join to an activity diagram?

The do neither show up in the project browser dor drag&drop, not do they appear in the "insert related elements" dialog.

The only way I found is going to another diagram where they appear and do a copy&paste. But that cannot be the only solution, since they might not appear on any diagram.

[Sparx EA 11.1]

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Show stereotypes on ArchiMate elements

« on: June 16, 2015, 05:29:55 pm »

Is there a trick to show applied stereotypes on ArchiMate elements? I can define stereotypes on ArchiMate elements, but they don't show on diagrams. Any Ideas?

Thanks!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Removing invisible copy & paste remnants

« on: May 11, 2015, 06:25:52 pm »

I copied and pasted a package from one model to another model. At first all seems to work as expected and I continued on enhancing the copied model.

But when I exported the (new) model to XMI 2.4.2, the XMI is invalid. It contains remnants of the original model that are not visible/accessible/changeable from within Sparx EA.

<ownedAttribute xmi:type="uml:Property" xmi:id="EAID_..." name="Urgency" visibility="private">
...
    <redefinedProperty xmi:idref="EAID_B547482E_4692_4278_BA88_1F0848DF2E9F"/>
</ownedAttribute>


What is the recommended way to get rid of these "redefinedProperty" remnants?

Thanks,
  Ulrich

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / MDG for Eclipse: How to access the model using Jav

« on: May 04, 2015, 11:42:59 pm »

I installed MDG for eclipse presumably successful. I can see the EA menu and the Project Explorer in Eclipse.

Now I'm looking for a way to access the model programmatically and naively tried

      a = EclipseManager.getManager();
      b = a.getAllProjects();
        ...

but that failed miserably with

  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:   org.eclipse.core.runtime.InvalidRegistryObjectException

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or where I can find information on how to programmatically access the model from within Eclipse? Links to working example code is welcome ;-)

Thanks,
  Ulrich