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Suggestions and Requests / Re: SOLVED: Adding and removing space to and from a canvas

« on: May 10, 2023, 09:22:52 pm »

Thanks! That is unfortunate, but at least I know that it's not me, but a lack in functionality. And do you know if an element can be unlinked from a pool?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: SOLVED: Adding and removing space to and from a canvas

« on: May 09, 2023, 07:24:42 pm »

Trying a different angle: Is it possible to somehow unlink elements from the pool they are in? Because I guess that the moved items within the pool are dragging the pool with them.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: SOLVED: Adding and removing space to and from a canvas

« on: May 09, 2023, 07:22:30 pm »

Dear Geert

I must be doing something wrong. I wish I could send you a demo picture here. Therefore I can only tell you that I set the pool to non-selectable and even with alt-drag it is moved for unknown reasons.

Best regards
Martin

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: SOLVED: Adding and removing space to and from a canvas

« on: May 09, 2023, 07:03:32 pm »

Dear Geert

Thanks, but perhaps I was inprecise in my explaination. I am not selecting individual elements and try to move them, but I have a diagram with pools in it. And in these pools I have several items like tasks and and notes and so on. And when I then go to the context menu of each pool, mark it as non-selectable and then activate the sweeper tool, everything is moved including the non-selectable pools. This is confusing for me. Do you have a solution suggestion?

Best regards
Martin

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: SOLVED: Adding and removing space to and from a canvas

« on: May 08, 2023, 10:50:25 pm »

A useful trick when working with diagrams that contain pools and lanes, is to set them to non-selectable (see context menu)

That way you can move around the contents all you want, without interfering with those pools and lanes

Geert

Dear Geert

I have to ask, if there is anything else I must do. I have made the pool not selectable and still they are moved around.

Best regards
Martin

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How to import vsdx files

« on: March 07, 2023, 08:43:14 pm »

That is true what Geert says. Some visio diagrams import quite well but a lot don't. So a fair amount of manual tidying up is required. I often use javascript to automate the tidying up. However not everything can be automated.

I hope that I will have such skills one day. Sounds good.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Something similar to VBA

« on: March 07, 2023, 12:29:40 am »

I am sorry that I bothered you. Under tools there is only the Script Library and the Javascript console. I do not see a menu entry "Scripting". Most probably it has been deactivated. Would fit with the rest.

In  the library both, new group and new script, are grayed out ...

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Something similar to VBA

« on: March 06, 2023, 06:56:43 pm »

You can use the internal scripting feature.

In the manual there are a few "hello world" type examples.

More complicated real-world stuff: https://github.com/GeertBellekens/Enterprise-Architect-VBScript-Library

Geert

Thanks Geert

I will also take a look at this.

Best regards
Martin

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Something similar to VBA

« on: March 06, 2023, 06:56:02 pm »

Well, you can use anything. Personally I use Python for lots of reasons. But that's up to everyone's taste. WSH works (I used that once), Perl (ditto), Java (well, not used but I know that people use it). You can as well go with compiled code (whatever you wish should do).

If you need a guide to EA's API you can look into my Scripting book. I once wrote that after struggling with what Sparx provided.

q.

Thank you. Sounds good. If I could choose freely I would use Python. Where do I find that scripting book that you spoke off?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How to import vsdx files

« on: March 06, 2023, 06:49:36 pm »

I would say it is part of moving away from visio. If you give access to it, people will keep using it.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Something similar to VBA

« on: March 05, 2023, 07:34:40 am »

Hi

I just wanted to ask if there is something similar to VBA in Office that can be used to write one's own modifications for EA? Is there a starting point iike a tutorial ("Dear beginners, macros/extensions/whatever are built in the following programming language and you can use the following example to render a hello world message" etc)?

Best regards
Martin

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How to import vsdx files

« on: March 01, 2023, 06:24:52 pm »

Thanks, but I have no permission to install another office suite. This is regulated by corporate IT governance.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How to import vsdx files

« on: February 27, 2023, 04:13:29 am »

One more thing is you need visio too otherwise the visio importer won't work.

To everyone: thanks for your advice.

But when I have to have visio for the importer to work then I won't need the importer anymore. I just need a way to get those old diagrams in an editable format.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / How to import vsdx files

« on: February 24, 2023, 08:30:50 pm »

Hello everyone

I am using EA 15.2.1559 and I want to import a Visio .vsdx diagram. I found this, but I am afraid that the website is i) describing a different version, because I see no extension menu and ii) that I do not have the permissions to install a new extension due to corporate IT restrictions.

Do you see an easy way to import vsdx diagrams?

Best regards
Martin

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: SOLVED: Adding and removing space to and from a canvas

« on: February 17, 2023, 06:39:24 pm »

Cool, thanks for the advice. I will use that.