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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Project Transfer automation details
« on: January 08, 2019, 04:31:06 am »
Hello everyone, first time poster here. TL;DR below if you like.
I'm super new to Sparx, and I'm attempting to take automation for project transfers from inside EA to outside EA (so it can be scheduled instead of manual). I've scoured these forums and came across a suggested powershell method here:
https://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,2708.0.html
This is awesome! Love me some powershell. And I'm rather sure this is the correct syntax to do what I want to do. Though, I'm having lots of trouble trying to transfer the project to a file.
First I execute the script and I get a popup stating:
"Source database must be at least version 3.50. Please upgrade source first, then try again."
Checking another forum suggestion I looked at the %APPDATA%...DBError.txt file and see this:
"Transmission error communicating with server.
The server name or address could not be resolved"
So I am assuming that my issue is with the source string.
I have a cloud connection string that I copied from a saved model shortcut on my desktop, and use this as my source string. I've added other parameters from the powershell suggestion that I thought were appropriate, but I'm simply not able to connect to the server with this string using automation. FYI, yes I am under a corporate firewall.
So finally my question is: what is the difference in connection string structures between the application transferring the model vs automation? Could I be missing something in the string to make it connect? Why would automation running within the application work (ie projectTransfer works within the application), but parallel logic outside of the application does not?
TL;DR - How do you transfer a project from a model in our cloud? What the difference in connection strings between the EA application vs automation?
I'm super new to Sparx, and I'm attempting to take automation for project transfers from inside EA to outside EA (so it can be scheduled instead of manual). I've scoured these forums and came across a suggested powershell method here:
https://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,2708.0.html
This is awesome! Love me some powershell. And I'm rather sure this is the correct syntax to do what I want to do. Though, I'm having lots of trouble trying to transfer the project to a file.
First I execute the script and I get a popup stating:
"Source database must be at least version 3.50. Please upgrade source first, then try again."
Checking another forum suggestion I looked at the %APPDATA%...DBError.txt file and see this:
"Transmission error communicating with server.
The server name or address could not be resolved"
So I am assuming that my issue is with the source string.
I have a cloud connection string that I copied from a saved model shortcut on my desktop, and use this as my source string. I've added other parameters from the powershell suggestion that I thought were appropriate, but I'm simply not able to connect to the server with this string using automation. FYI, yes I am under a corporate firewall.
So finally my question is: what is the difference in connection string structures between the application transferring the model vs automation? Could I be missing something in the string to make it connect? Why would automation running within the application work (ie projectTransfer works within the application), but parallel logic outside of the application does not?
TL;DR - How do you transfer a project from a model in our cloud? What the difference in connection strings between the EA application vs automation?