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General Board / Re: Using ChatGPT to create EA Scripts

« on: March 16, 2023, 08:43:07 pm »

Neat idea! I'm going to try for myself

I suppose that making "simple" scripts is very handy for anyone, who has some experience in scripting, but does not have extensive knowledge of EA capabilities. Then, with documentation and experience, user can refine the script if needed.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Enforce Plain Text Paste Everywhere in Sparx?

« on: March 16, 2023, 08:03:51 pm »

A keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-shift-V like in Gmail) would be cool as well.

Geert

+1

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General Board / Re: Best method to differentiate between AS-IS and TO-BE

« on: March 16, 2023, 08:02:06 pm »

I manage a model of a system for our main client. Throughout the years, I managed only the "TO-BE" model, as the system is heavily changing. Modeling the "AS-IS" model seems impossible for now because it would generate a copious amount of work that would be thrown away as new projects are completed.

Once, we had a project that required to describe temporary state and then going back to the previous model. I managed to do it with Package Control and branching directly in SVN. Since the model is quite big (>150 MB in .qea file) and has numerous version-controlled packages, it required a lot of work to carefully update the packages. I don't recommend this approach, especially if the modeler's time is limited.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: v16.1 - Holiday period present from Sparx Systems!

« on: December 08, 2022, 01:25:33 am »

That's great! And I already accepted the fate that EA Lite won't be upgraded...

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General Board / Re: v16 QEA file - inspecting SQLite database in detail

« on: October 31, 2022, 09:38:34 pm »

Thank you for the answers.

In case you were wondering, right now SQLite version is 3.x

Data from EA About page:
Database Schema Version: 1558
Program Version: 16.0.1605 (Build: 1605)

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General Board / v16 QEA file - inspecting SQLite database in detail

« on: October 29, 2022, 01:00:41 am »

Hi,

Many people are using EA database directly and review issues directly in database. Because of that they really enjoyed any materials and whitepapers about EA JET 4.0 Database structure (EAP file).

Since v16 I switched to QEA file, which is SQLite (v3 I guess?) and I need to rewrite some tools that I've been using. It seems that, aside from some official announcements, there is no good analysis of new database.

Is there anything like this page https://leanpub.com/InsideEA/read, but for new database? Or is it not necessary, because nothing has changed?