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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Mutlipe Labels for an element (besides connectors)

« on: July 22, 2016, 07:32:16 pm »

Hello,

Is there a possibility to add more than one label to an element which is not a connector (e.g. component , exposed interfaces ...?

Greetings Sarah

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Goup exposed Interfaces inside of a component class

« on: July 06, 2016, 06:04:16 pm »

Hello,

I have a few components to which I want to add several exposed Interfaces of different types. I add them to the component so I can move them around on the edge of the object and connect them with other objects.
Is it possible to group those exposed interfaces into categories. I know I can create an interface object but then I can't attach it to the component any longer and lose information displayed through the component (the interface object has no information.). For example:

Component : Dog
Interface category : move
exposed interface : slow , fast , not ....

displayed in a hierachical structure so I can add to the component dog the exposed interface : move.slow or move.fast or just move.

Basically I want to group them together in a folder but INSIDE of the component so that I still can move it around and attach it to the componet it's supposed to be for. Any hits, tips?

Thank you.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Element Shadow Color doesn't change color with change of defined status

« on: April 13, 2016, 04:47:01 pm »

Hello

I've set up my Enterprise Architect to show Element Shadows (in the Tools-Option-General-Diagram-Appearance menu).
After that I've created some custom shadows at Settings- Project Types - General Types and applied it to all elements.

As a result I have a normal grey default shadow shown, but it won't switch colors when changing the status to the right color.

Any hits on how to go about that?

Greetings Sarah

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Switching between Stereotypes (ShapeScripts) for individual displaying purposes

« on: January 27, 2016, 07:32:53 pm »

Hello,

I have following problem.
First the idea what I want to achieve :
I have a component diagram with the standard displaying of the component shapes. For visualizing spezific tagged values I added a shapescript to a stereotype which is working fine.
Now I'm trying to write a script to automatically change the appearance of all elements of a packages through assigning the customized stereotype to them which also works see this JScript :

Code: [Select]

function main()
{

var thePackage as EA.Package;
thePackage = Repository.GetTreeSelectedPackage();

var elements as EA.Collection;
elements=thePackage.Elements;


for (var i=0;i<elements.Count;i++){
var currentElement as EA.Element;
currentElement = elements.GetAt(i);
currentElement.Stereotype="custom";
currentElement.Update();
thePackage.Elements.Refresh();
}

Session.Output("Stereotype changed into CUSTOM");


}

main();
So now everything is displaying the way I want it to and I can get my wished diagram view for presenting purposes.

Here's where the problem is:

Now I want to change the appearance back to the default component type.
Because I have over a few hundred components in my package it would take a long time to reset them manually.

I had 2 thoughts on that , either delete the existing stereotype assigned to the element (but without deleting the stereotype definition because I later want to use it again with the shape script) or assign it a new stereotype which only shows the default appearance.

I tried it this way :

Code: [Select]

function main()
{

var thePackage as EA.Package;
thePackage = Repository.GetTreeSelectedPackage();


var elements as EA.Collection;
elements=thePackage.Elements;


for (var i=0;i<elements.Count;i++){

var currentElement as EA.Element;
currentElement = elements.GetAt(i);


var currentStereotype as EA.Stereotype;
currentStereotype=currentElement.Stereotype;


if(currentStereotype.Name="custom"){
currentStereotype.Name = null;

}


currentElement.Update();


thePackage.Elements.Refresh();
}

Session.Output(currentStereotype);


}

main();
But now it tells me that edit and continue are unsupported for the stereotype. If I give it another name , it just adds a blank stereotype of the name to the already existing custom stereotype to the element which doesn't override the appearance of the custom shape script. (looks like << blank , custom >>)
I even tried to assign it the _strickness attribute for only having one stereotype at a time but somehow this doesn't do anything.

The Idea behind this was to build a switch to have elements in 2 versions for displaying different attributes visually and to go back and forth between those two whenever needed.

Maybe someone can help me or knows another way around this?

Greetings Sarah