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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / 500 Internal Server Error when doing a GET /oslc/am/nestedresources/

« on: May 23, 2023, 06:42:39 pm »

Hi guys,

Hope this is the right forum for this question.

We have Sparx EA 16.x along with PCS 5.x
DB is Oracle on RHEL.
DB config settings are default ones.

We are developing a tool to interact with Sparx DB through the OSLC API's.
So far so good however now our developers are getting time to time an 500 internal server error when GETting data from /oslc/am/nestedresources/ !?

We suspect Max Simultaneous Queries...

Do you have any hint on the issue here?

Thx,

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General Board / Re: Auto Group Elements (hold ALT to toggle) - programmatically disable

« on: May 15, 2023, 09:33:12 pm »

Thanks Qwerty and Geert.
Registry obviously 
We will try Geert's EA-Matic script and add additional 'global' user settings we would like to see checked and verified.

because we don't trus the user to actually close EA when we ask nicely

so true 

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General Board / Auto Group Elements (hold ALT to toggle) - programmatically disable

« on: May 15, 2023, 05:23:03 pm »

Hi guys,

We have many architects working with Sparx EA 16.x as a published application on Citrix.
On several occasions we had troubles with elements moving around and nesting with other parents creating a mess in our structures.
Most of the time it was related to "Auto Group Elements (hold ALT to toggle)" that toggled ON for no apparent reason!

Questions are:

• Can we programmatically check that this parameter is toggled OFF every time Sparx EA starts?
• Is there a way to centrally managed those parameters for all users?

Thx a lot for your advices and hints.

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General Board / Re: Disable Paste Element as New

« on: March 01, 2023, 02:15:04 am »

Thanks Geert!

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General Board / Disable Paste Element as New

« on: February 28, 2023, 09:17:04 pm »

Hi guys,
Running Sparx EA v16.x with PCS and an Oracle DB.
We have created many elements and set them as "common and shared elements" amongst all diagrams.
We also grouped them in a structural way in the Browser viewpoint.
We locked away (Group lock) those elements to make sure only a few users can edit them.
However still we cannot control and restrict the duplication (Paste operation -> Elements(s) as New) of those "common and shared elements".
Is there a way to restrict and control (permission-based?) this behaviour/operation for certain elements only i.e. those "common and shared elements"?

Thanks for the heads up!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Sync Sparx tags with an external CMDB

« on: June 02, 2022, 10:30:28 pm »

Thank you for your feedback guys.
Pardon the noob question but I thought that OSLC restful API could be a solution to retrieve such information rather than using CSV model or the legacy direct DB connection.
Am I mixing up things here or is it just that OSLC API is too much of an hassle to 'just' retrieve tags!?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Sync Sparx tags with an external CMDB

« on: June 01, 2022, 01:48:23 am »

Hi guys,
Reaching out the forum for a concern that landed in my basket.
We need to synchronize some of authoritative Sparx tags we set on a bunch of application components to our our group CMDB.
We have a 'classy' on-prem setup (EA Unified Ed) with floating licenses, Oracle DB and EA client distributed as a Citrix published app.

The group CMDB exposes some API's that we plan to use to achieve that sync.

The idea would be to develop some code (JAVA, .NET or VBS) that would read from the DB and put/post the tags to the group CMDB.

You may have already gone through same kind of request!
I'm looking for any tip, advice, attention point you would like to share.

Thanks a lot!

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General Board / ArchiMate Stereotypes and Tagged Values

« on: January 07, 2022, 08:12:54 pm »

Hi,

By editing the ArchiMate3.xml file I was able to set some default appearance settings to stereotypes such ArchiMate_Flow.

Now I want to have a set of tagged values to be included as well whenever I drag/drop an ArchiMate_Flow on a diagram and thus avoiding the manual add of those TVs.

For instance I want to have TV:Protocol and TV:Encryption to be added automatically added to the ArchiMate_Flow stereotype whenever I drag it to a diagram.

Is that only possible? And if yes how can you do that?

Thx for your help!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New Diagram - no Risk Taxonomy in the list

« on: November 23, 2021, 02:06:30 am »

Make sure you haven't disabled it in your personal settings (Specialize | Manage Tech) and in the project settings (Configure | Options | MDG Technologies)

That was exactly the problem: this particular MDG Technology is disabled in Managed Project settings.

Thx a lot Geert!

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / New Diagram - no Risk Taxonomy in the list

« on: November 22, 2021, 07:35:30 pm »

Hi,
Although RiskTaxonomy.xml do exist in C:\Program Files (x86)\Sparx Systems\EA\MDGTechnologies on the servers (Citrix farm) I still cannot add a new diagram using the Risk Taxonomy perspective since it does not show in the list of available perspectives (MDG's)

Any hint would be much appreciated!

Thx,


Sparx EA v15.2.1559 unicode (Unified Edition)
Database Schema Version: pre-1558
Database Version: 7.0