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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 / 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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General Board / Data Lost Problem !!!

« on: February 05, 2008, 10:56:43 pm »

Hello,
we occasionally met  the following problem that is VERY dangerous for us:

1) the model is stored in MS SQL server
2) Parts of the model are versioned  in XML files (ClearCase)
3) We checked out the concrete part of the model (XML file was checkout consequently)
4) We made some changes
5) EA reamined run during the night
6) In the middle of the night we make an automatic DB backup
7) In the morning all the new data are lost, it seems EA synchronized the model with the original XML file again
In the DB backup the data are not present as well, so thi s happened possibly before the backup.

We don't understand how this could happen. It's very serios problem for us, since it dispraise our trust into EArchitect.
It's not the first situation when we lost some data from EA.
Dou you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

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General Board / SSJavaProfiler65

« on: November 08, 2006, 12:08:43 am »

Hello,

I want to try to generate sequence diagrams by connecting to java application that is run from MyEclipse.
When I set a JVM in MyEclipse to use agent SSJavaProfiler65 I get the following error:

ERROR: JDWP unable to get necessary JVMTI capabilities. ["debugInit.c",L279]

What I do wrong?

Thanks for any advice in advance

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Bugs and Issues / Version 9, Build 904 Crashes

« on: May 17, 2011, 09:29:44 pm »

Hello,

the current official version Version 9, Build 904 doesn't work for me and for every my colleague that had tried  install it.
After starting ea.exe only the message : Program stopped working: is shown.
Has anybody  the same experience?

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Bugs and Issues / EA x Subversion BUG

« on: November 27, 2010, 12:27:38 am »

Hello I have just sent the following BUG tu Sparx.
I write it also to this forum, maybe someone could provide some help:
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Hello,

we have just lost a lot of information stored in EA.
When a user ckecks out a package that is not up-to-date in SVN he doesn't see the last changes although the corresponding XML file is checked out in its latest version. SVN updates this file when doing chekout but EA doesn't reload it.
The very big problem is that all checkouts or getlatest  are destructive in its internal behavior. When anything goes wrong and user kills this process you can lost a lot of information.
In company like our where more than 50 people use EA for work it's not easy to force any methodological working processes when they are not supported by software.
We are one step no to use EA at all.
Could you provide us some solution that could solve this problems?

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Bugs and Issues / Types of activities' parameters

« on: October 11, 2010, 08:37:53 pm »

Hello,

How can I change (extend) the set of types provided for activities' parameters?
Setting the language for Activity doesn't seem to work.
Is it a bug?  (v. 8.0.863)

Thanks

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Bugs and Issues / Tagged Values and UML profiles incosistences

« on: October 29, 2009, 10:37:02 pm »

Hello,
We have found some inconsistences in working with tags and UML profiles.
We have an UML profile called "Struts_Profile" distrubuted by MDG distribution XML/mts file.
There is defined a class "Struts Action" and its reference tag called "ActionClass". The relevant XML piece is bellow.
We have problems with version 849 of EA, since the behavior is getting strange. We have the following mixed states of tagged values for Struts Action Classes.
1) Some Action Classes has a tag called "ActionClass".
2)Some Action Classes has a tag called "Struts_Profile::ActionClass"
3)Some Action Classes has a tag called "ActionClass" and by turning on showing full names we see "Struts_Profile::Struts Action::ActionClass"

When we add a Struts Action from toolbar  it behaves as  3)
When we add tagged value manually it behaves as  2)
Some older classes (created in preavios versions of EA) has 1) or 2)
and the selection of reference class is not always working.

What is the correct behavior, and how to achieve the same behavior for all classes?

Thanks for any hint.
If nobody could help I will ask Sparx directly.

<UMLProfile profiletype="uml2">
                  <Documentation id="0AF9387E-D" name="Struts_Profile" version="1.0" notes="Struts_Profile"/>
                  <Content>
                        <Stereotypes>

<Stereotype name="Struts Action" notes="" cx="90" cy="70" bgcolor="-1" fontcolor="-1" bordercolor="-1" bo
                                                <AppliesTo>
                                                        <Apply type="Class">
                                                                <Property name="isActive" value=""/>
                                                        </Apply>
                                                </AppliesTo>
                                                <TaggedValues>
                                                        <Tag name="ActionClass"/>
                                                </TaggedValues>
                                        </Stereotype>

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Bugs and Issues / Search Term limited in length

« on: October 17, 2008, 06:31:20 pm »

Hello,

the search term is limited to 26 chars. Is there any reason for this?
I have not found any discussion about this on this forum.
In some situations it's quite limiting. For example we try to search the GUID which is longer. (so we search the substring for now -- but  that has not to be unique)

Thanks for any idea

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Bugs and Issues / Linked Document -- broken links

« on: October 07, 2008, 06:49:21 am »

When I use a linked document (EA v.7.1.832) and drag&drop some element on it to create a link to this element from this document than after saving and reopening the document the link is broken -- it doesn't jump to the element in the tree.
The same efect I see when I copy the content of the document to the MS Word and that copy it back -- the links are broken even when I have not modified them (... I do it to chage the label of the link, since EA doesn't enable it.)

I'm not sure but I think in some previous version of EA this worked ?!
Has anybody the same problems?
Thanks for any feedback

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Uml Process / Handling pending changes

« on: June 16, 2009, 06:11:55 pm »

Hello,

I'm looking for some 'metodology' how to hadle process used in our company.
We have the following sequence of activities:

1) Customer requests some new features
2) A proposal (New/Updated UseCases + domain model is prepared) + the calculation of capacities ( = price)
3) Customer decide if he really wants it
4) The proposal is implemented and delivered

The problem is, that customer quite often decide not to realize requested changes and
that the implementation is done typically a few month after the proposal was made (we do two releases per year).

When creating a proposal it's very appropriate to use a case tool (EA) since it's desired for it.
But the model  serves as a documentation as well and this is not actual since it contains not yet realized chages.
It's very dificult to "remove" proposals decided not to realize from the model as well.

We found the merging between models not easy usable for typical user. We would use status indicators or some other system of tagging of pending changes.
But we often do proposals for the same usecase and some are realized and some are not. I'm afraid that any
system of tagging of pending chages will grow wild shortly.

So we do proposals as a word documents and when the proposal is confirmed it's modeled afterward. But we deprive of the advantage of case tool in creative work.

any hints welcomed

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / OracleOleDB problem?

« on: April 20, 2010, 10:27:24 pm »

Hello,
I begin to play with oracle and EA.
I connect to DB using Oracle Provider for OLE DB.
I have the following problem:
this SQL query>
select instr('Tag:Value',':') + 1 AS C1 from dual;

returns 5 in PL/SQL Developer
but
returns 41 when using it as as Custom SQL search in EA.

Is this a problem of OLE bridge?
Do you know how to solve it?

Thanks for any hints.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Hyperlinkks to model in LinkedDocument changed v.8

« on: March 16, 2010, 01:20:58 am »

I have just found out that the hyperlinks to model elements in linked documents are different in version 8.
The old style of hyperlinks is still supported.

Old style was:
#BKM_0D541981_621D_4646_BDD0_4AF3D9210FAA

New style is (e.g.):
$diagram:/{0D541981-621D-4646_BDD0-4AF3D9210FAA}
$package:/{B3A7AB3A-1BF6-4854-84D0-1D64D02400F4}

It would be nice to have this documented, since some users' plugins can rely on it -- e.g. trying to provide the still missing "Refresh names" function for hyperlinks.