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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Local path in tab "Files" of class

« on: June 24, 2010, 08:52:21 pm »

Hi,

this problem was reported "years" ago and changes were promised but it is still not solved.
I can not find the discussion thread now but I vote for this behavior again too.

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Suggestions and Requests / Versioning - different approach?

« on: March 19, 2012, 11:38:08 pm »

Hello,

we still have to solve problems related to versioning and /partialy/ un-updated models that leads to
-)  lost of relations between elements
-)  re-appearing of already deleted relations between elements with Cross Package References turned on

I want to ask if the following changes in verisoning approach could solve (some) of the problems:

*) when doing Checkin ... EA will always checkin ALL checkouted packages into "one versioning session"
*) when doing getLatest on the package  all the packages in the same versioning session are updated as well.  --- it can include more sessions when the package was changed moretimes from the last update.
*) Previous step is done transitively for each updated package. --- all not already updated sessions containing this file are included as well.
*) When the package in the session is not in the model, the warning is reported.


This can reduce the need to do GetAllLatest which is very time consuming but still have the model in consistant state ....

Note: there is no difference to GetAllLatest for models that are updated very often in all their parts, but I believe it's not the case of the most of models.


Lubos

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Suggestions and Requests / Stop long-lasting actions + confirmation dialog

« on: December 08, 2010, 05:46:03 pm »

Some actions like "Get All Latest", "Checkout Out Branch", .. takes (sometimes) a (really) long time. It's not possible to stop them safely - it should be.

The next problem is when user clicks e.g "Checkout Out Branch" instead of just "Checkout" accidentally --- there should be confirmation dialog for starting such "mass" actions.

May be a "Undo Checkout branch" could be useful sometimes -- but  this can be overcome by a script.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Diagram Filters - suggestion

« on: March 13, 2010, 01:11:02 am »

ok, I have just submited it.

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Suggestions and Requests / Diagram Filters - suggestion

« on: March 12, 2010, 06:18:35 pm »

Hello,

I have just found out the Diagram Filter functionality in a new EA version.
I think it's very usefull and important feature that could provide the way how to read complicated diagrams.
But as it seems it's possible to filter only by Element properties. I think it could be useful to filter by some properties of the concrete rendering of the element in the given diagram as well, since the purpose of the diagram could be to introduce some new elements, that are not distinguishable from the others by any property -- and we could want to emphasize these elements somehow (of course we can do it by e.g. another color now)
Another useful filter could be "In the same package as diagram".

Do you think it could be useful?

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Suggestions and Requests / Enable moving elements to (from) Element List

« on: October 07, 2008, 10:13:56 pm »

It should be helpful if I could move elements from the tree to the Element List (Ctrl alt R)
When moving elements into another package it's quite time consuming when this package is "far" from the element.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: BUG: Importing of packages from XMI files brok

« on: October 31, 2006, 01:41:00 am »

As I have tried this feature in version 6.5.799 I suppose it was already fixed. I have tested it and if I have not loaded some referenced packages, their elements are not visible on any diagram, but as soon as I loaded them, they appeared.
I want to ask if you plan to enhance this feature in similar way as it works in Rose for example. It means, even when the package is not loaded some fragments are still visible on diagrams indicating that something is missing...

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General Board / Re: EA slows down after installing Navigator

« on: November 22, 2012, 10:25:02 pm »

Hello,
have you updated the version number on the About panel?
I still see  2.2.4704.37448 from 17.11.2012
Thanks

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General Board / Re: Sql server repository

« on: November 01, 2010, 11:21:17 pm »

Try it using Export and Import package  (XMI).

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General Board / Re: Enterprise Architect protocol handler

« on: October 20, 2010, 07:58:55 pm »

my setting is the same, but the connection string is just longer ...
I will try to play with another settings but I was not successful with them yet, since it always try to open new EA instance instead of using the already opened one.

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General Board / Re: Enterprise Architect protocol handler

« on: October 20, 2010, 07:10:35 pm »

I have tested it again and I think the problem is that a reference text is bigger than dialog for setting hyperlink adress enables to type into -- so the hyperlink is shortened

example:

ea://Model?c=YwodwmcbyEhbyqGQ6OFyrwwsiihGQ0MSl4y41%2fMG%2fk8oBAizw2THtSd1KaDrc4uIp%2fKLCqXl28yAAPDCuXikDFwQQP0i3avnHx9SUCHmYkdsAddgf9Yd5No3I0GgHSnXC%2fxkJVo%2fPvcyGDOkdINSbghD8Tf5aVJgJQoSJZcWv1J92UR%2fzZPsu9cCCAHgktXusnNj8n5hbJgGlcwykfr7KdeuuzMUkO6AKQEdNjZmJTsw%3d&p=229CDCF9A5D9441f9EB0886DCF01528D

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General Board / Re: Enterprise Architect protocol handler

« on: October 20, 2010, 05:08:32 pm »

I have also installed this extension to try its functionality yesterday. My experience is following:

Internet Explorer: hyperlinks work
Chrome: hyperlinks do not work
MSWord: hyperlinks fail

Functionality in Word is very important for me, but it is still beta so may be it will be usable later.  
Meantime we have already created simple VB script in Word that  highlights referenced element in enterprise architect based on the guid stored in hyperlink texts in Word document.

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General Board / Re: Find usage of a class as attribute

« on: September 17, 2010, 10:07:09 pm »

Hello,

although you are asking for some front-end solution  I hope the following can help you too:

SELECT * FROM T_ATTRIBUTE a WHERE a.CLASSIFIER = (SELECT o.OBJECT_ID FROM T_OBJECT o WHERE o.EA_GUID='GUID of CLASS');

but this will probably work only if the class as a attribute type was chosen by selecting the class in project tree, I think that if it was written by hand, classifier will not be filled so you will have to search it by name which could not be  "precise"

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General Board / Re: Local Paths: where active

« on: June 24, 2010, 08:57:12 pm »

Hi
as I remember (we don't use  it for some time)
$EAPDIR is the directory where EAP file si stored or you can write any directory you want here.
You can write file paths relative to this folder  then ...

But if you have a repository in database this will not help you....

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General Board / Re: Cannot checkout Packages

« on: January 19, 2010, 08:04:19 pm »

Hello,

you are right this will help. But I want to point out that this function can be also very dangerous.
We use clear-case with the separate view for each user, in this configuration this function breaks all checkout of another people since it compares the state of XML files only with your view.
I have already reported this bug a few weeks ago and sparx accepted it... I hope they will fix it ASAP.