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

« on: February 17, 2023, 04:39:29 am »

It shows some similarities, but it is not the same.

Besides I can also add something to the sweeper function. It works good in a diagram with many elements arranged somewhere, but it has its shortcomings when trying in a diagram with pools. Then it does not work in the way I want, but instead it always grabs the entire pool and everything in it. But I can live with it and I am already very happy with the sweeper function.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Watermark feature for lanes

« on: February 14, 2023, 07:52:29 pm »

Thank you for all your help. I know that you are right about the wallpapers. Still, it is sometimes difficult when you have to fit in with the usual way of modeling in your organization.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Watermark feature for lanes

« on: February 14, 2023, 06:52:20 pm »

Ah okay. And how can I post such a request? Is there an official way?

Besides, I thought I could find a workaround like text that is rotated 90° or so and that I could copy and paste multiple times to see the lane name at the lower end of the lane or so.

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

« on: February 14, 2023, 06:50:19 pm »

Thank you very much. Now I have even two ways to accomplish this

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Watermark feature for lanes

« on: February 14, 2023, 01:33:42 am »

Okay, I can see where my question must have been confusing. In the past I just had some intro into topics like BPMN 2.0 for process modeling and no further deep dive into UML in general. With regard to BPMN 2.0 I had to do with other tools, which focused on BPMN 2.0 and everything else was just ignored. Now I entered the EA world and of course I am flashed with all the things that the EA offers.

And now to the question itself: My colleagues and I have to use vertical swim lanes. And these tend to get very long. When we scroll down, we cannot see the head of the swim lane anymore. Does this help to understand my problem?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Watermark feature for lanes

« on: February 13, 2023, 11:23:18 pm »

Dear qwerty

First of all: Thanks for your advice.

When I now have to ask, I do not want to appear lazy. I really do not know where to look fot this SD. I want to give you an example. I am in a sandbox package. There I do a right click and get a context menu. I select "Add Diagram".

Then I get a new window entitled "New Diagram". On the left it has a dropdown menu with the type options, which is set to "All perspectives". Below I can select different kinds of diagrams. In my last attempt I selected "BPMN 2.0" and in the right part of the menu "Business Process".

In the new diagram I added a pool and in it a lane. I drew them very long so that they go beyond the border of the current window. But when I then scroll to their ends I can still not see the name of the pool or lane. Therefore I guess that I misunderstood your advice regarding SDs in the first place.

Best regards
Martin

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

« on: February 13, 2023, 11:04:46 pm »

PS: Can I somehow make a visual shortcut (like a button in the UI) to use this function?

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

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

Hi qwerty.

Thank you very much! This is exactly what I needed and I was looking for that for quite a while. I am very new to this forum. Can I somehow mark this as solved and is there someting like an endorsement function?

Best regards
Martin

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Watermark feature for lanes

« on: February 13, 2023, 08:30:19 pm »

Sequence Diagram

Could you be so kind and elaborate on this?

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

« on: February 13, 2023, 08:27:39 pm »

Thanks for your suggestion. I tried both combinations, but it seems that it just grabs something like a boundary with all items in it and let me move them around (shift + move). Ctrl + seems to do a paste action. But it does not just add space between the items. Still, I will see if this helps me. And if at any time a space adding/removing tool would be implemented, it could be a great enhancement.

Thank you!

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Watermark feature for lanes

« on: February 13, 2023, 08:12:43 pm »

Frankly, I am not sure. I used a customized BPMN diagram as layed out by a template in our organization. And in a standard sequence diagram there is a watermark option? I will look into that? Is there a way to use that in other diagrams with lanes, too?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Watermark feature for lanes

« on: February 13, 2023, 08:03:15 pm »

I am sorry, but I do not know what SD means.

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

« on: February 13, 2023, 07:25:53 pm »

Hi everyone

I have a seconed suggestion, but this is more a question if such a function already exists. In some diagrams I add elements and everything looks fine. But then I gather more and more information and suddenly I need more space between the elements. In a way I would like to just stretch a canvas at a certain point and add more space vertically or horizontally. This is different from selecting each and every single item and move them to another place. And it would be great to have the opposite function as well to remove unnecessary space.

Does something like this already exist in EA? I know it from other tools and used it there a lot.

Best regards
Martin

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Suggestions and Requests / Watermark feature for lanes

« on: February 13, 2023, 07:21:02 pm »

Hi everyone

Sometimes I have very long lanes in my process diagrams and then I have to scroll to the the start to look which lane that actually is and back again. I would like to have feature which prints little reminders with the lane title in regular distances in a long lane. Or does such a feature or something that does the trick in another way already exist?

Best regards
Martin