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Uml Process / Re: What is a Sparx interaction point? It seems not to be in the UML spec

« on: February 21, 2023, 12:54:19 am »

I think he's talking about https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/16.1/guide_books/modeling_interaction_points.html

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General Board / Re: Is it possible to import Oracle Designer content to EA?

« on: February 21, 2023, 12:51:59 am »

I've found (not verified) you can export in Oracle Designer to Erwin XML format and then import that XML in EA.

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PCS General Board / Re: Question about WebEA tokens and image cache

« on: February 17, 2023, 03:30:33 am »

Well, wait. After reading all the discussion, I have not clear this point:  does the PCS Worker correctly save the diagrams even if their modification date is not changed by any user, but they are indirectly affected by having modified or deleted some element or connector?

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

« on: February 17, 2023, 03:25:59 am »

I don't know if your are talking about the same feature, but I use it in the following way: first, select the elements you want to move; then go to menu: "Layout | Tools | Diagram Layout | Converge/Diverge" and that's it

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General Board / Re: Modified date of elements doesn't change when modified tag value

« on: February 17, 2023, 03:18:10 am »

You always can write an add-in that does the job. Given that tag modification will be caught by some event. Currently not so sure about that.

q.

I thinks it is a good idea! Maybe a Model Addin. I will try it!

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General Board / Re: Element shadows Off, how?

« on: February 17, 2023, 03:13:04 am »

Anybody knows if there is a way to switch off the shadows behind classes with EA 16.1?

I could swear I've done that before using Preferences. Now, all I can find is a check box in
   Preferences -> Diagram -> Themes -> Applied styles,
which I already unmark, but shadows are still there.
I've considered setting the shadow colour to white, but would like to do it the proper way.

Thanks for your attention.

You are right. I have just tested it in version 16.1 and even if I uncheck, the shadows are still present.

I suggest you report it as a bug.

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PCS General Board / Re: Release token for WebEA

« on: February 15, 2023, 01:33:00 am »

As we are still somewhat struggling with the installation of WebEA, I was wondering whether it was possible to release a token which has been allocated to a process that crashed or to a user who hasn't logged out properly.
At the moment we need to wait half an hour each time all tokens are used (we don't have many right now).
Any suggestions?

Can you modify the time to close the session in the webserver? (modify from 30 minutes, to 5, for example)

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General Board / Re: Modified date of elements doesn't change when modified tag value

« on: February 15, 2023, 01:12:30 am »

In fact, my real need is that all tagged values, regardless of their nature (created from an MDG or manually), when modified, update the modification date.

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General Board / Re: Modified date of elements doesn't change when modified tag value

« on: February 14, 2023, 09:22:47 am »

I have just added it as a feature request (maybe listed at the end of the backlog, with priority 0)

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General Board / Modified date of elements doesn't change when modified tag value

« on: February 14, 2023, 02:42:26 am »

Suppose you create a custom MDG with profiles and "customized" elements (stereotypes) with some special tag values that appears in the Properties window in the "Element" section (not in "Tags" section).

In this case, the tag values you define in your stereotype seems to be extended properties for the element, as they are visible in the main page of the Properties windows (below "General" section of the properties).

So, if you change any of the General properties (Name, Alias, Keywords, status, version...) the Modified date of the element is updated. But if you change any of you customized properties (tag values from the MDG), the Modified date of the element is not updated.

Do you consider it as a bug? or a feature? Don't you think it's more logical to update the date when you change a tag value? (even any tag value)

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PCS General Board / Re: Question about WebEA tokens and image cache

« on: February 11, 2023, 01:28:37 am »

...So every EA client that makes changes to a diagram in that repository will automatically update the cache for that repository.
So when there is no change, there is also no need to update the cache.
And thus still no need for the worker process nor any PCS token.

What if a user deletes an element (from the Browser, not opening a diagram), and the element is used in several diagrams? so, you will need to update the cache for all those diagrams. Does it work in that way?

If I were the PCS, I would update the diagrams cache according to the date of modification, but at the end of the day I would update all the diagrams cache because all of them could be updated due connector or elements changes (edition, tags, deletion, renaming, etc)

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Can't edit Direction of Information Flow in version 16.1.1623

« on: February 11, 2023, 01:21:13 am »

Hi Mauricio

Information Flow - Right-Click on connector - Advance - Reverse Direction
Voila

Regards

Jose Zouain

Thanks, but what if I need to set it as bidirectional? or undefined? I want to be able to edit the connector, why not?

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General Board / Re: MDG Link to Eclipse C/C++/SystemC

« on: February 11, 2023, 12:32:27 am »

You can do reverse and direct engineering with EA without using MDG. Just go in the menu to "Develop | Source Code" section and you will find all the options to do that.

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Bugs and Issues / Can't edit Direction of Information Flow in version 16.1.1623

« on: February 09, 2023, 07:49:27 am »

I have just installed version 16.1 build 1623 and now I note this behavior: if you create a connector of type "information flow", and then you double click the connector to open the connector properties, it doesn't allow to change the Direction of the connector.

Anybody with the same issue in the same version? (or recent versions?)

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General Board / Re: Creating model elements from outside EA

« on: February 09, 2023, 07:41:33 am »

If you are going to develop an external app, lets say, a console C# in Visual Studio, you have to check the compilation mode (32 or 64 bits) according to the version of EA you are using. Note that after version 16 you have both 32 and 64 bits options, and before v16 only 32 bits available.