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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Server is busy in EA

« on: January 21, 2009, 07:32:27 pm »

Hello there,
some time ago i posted about a "server is busy"-dialog when i used ms word in my C#-addin (reporting-addin) for EA. I didnt find a solution for it.

Now i have a simliar problem with EA itself.

My addin exports the currently opened project, starts a second instance of EA and imports the lately exported project into it.
Then i apply the RTF-Documentation of EA to several packages in the second instance of EA. If the computation takes to much time a dialog appears with the message "server is busy" and the execution stops until i press "retry" on the dialog. How can i prevent this Dialog from popping up.

Why do i use a second instance of EA and not the original one:
I move elements and diagrams between packages. I had some problems after restoring the original locations of the elements: i didnt get the original structure back, but a persistent projectstructure is critical.

thank you in advance.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: copy or move elements from one package to anot

« on: January 21, 2009, 07:12:51 pm »

Thx, this works for me  

But is it even possible to COPY elements, diagrams and packages ?
The solution above just moves objects the objects between packages.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / copy or move elements from one package to another

« on: January 20, 2009, 12:30:07 am »

Hello,

are there any commands in the automation interface to copy or move elments from one package to another?

thx in advance

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Server Busy when using Word interop in Addin

« on: January 09, 2009, 05:55:51 pm »

Hello,

i know my question is no EA stuff.

But does anybody know how to delay or block the "server busy"-dialog of word ? It appears when it takes to long to open a doc in addin-background.

thx

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Deploying RTF-Tempaltes for Reporting-Addin (C#)

« on: January 09, 2009, 12:14:49 am »

Hello,

still doing my Reporting-Addin.
This Addin uses the built-in RTF-Reporting of EA, internally.
I use specific RTF-Templates for the Addin. But I dont want that every user has to import these templates for each of their EA-Files manually.

The RTF-templates are located in the "t_document"-table of an EA-File (when you open it with access).
Well, if EA-files are databases, why not using the Repository.Execute("SQL-Statement") of the EA-API, to update the t_documents-table ?

And this is what i have at the moment:

I fill the content of my RTF-documents into byte-arrays and try to deploy these arrays to the bincontent-column of the t_document-table.
Here is the code.

Code: [Select]

DirectoryInfo d = new DirectoryInfo(AddInDirectory + @"\RTF-Templates");

            foreach (FileInfo f in d.GetFiles())
            {
                FileStream fs = new FileStream(f.FullName, FileMode.Open);

                try
                {
                    byte[] MyData = new byte[fs.Length];
                    fs.Read(MyData, 0, System.Convert.ToInt32(fs.Length));
                    string guid = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

                    DateTime dt = new DateTime();
                    dt = DateTime.Now;

                    string sqlstring = "INSERT INTO t_document(DocID,DocName, Notes, Style, ElementID, ElementType, StrContent, BinContent, DocType, Author, Version, isActive, Sequence,
DocDate) VALUES('" + guid + "','" + f.Name + "'," + "'teststring'," + "'Zip=1;'," + "'SSDOCSTYLE'," + "'SSDOCSTYLE'," + " 'teststring'," + MyData+ "," + "'SSDOCSTYLE'," + "'teststring', 'teststring', 2, 2,'" + dt.ToString("dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss") + "'";

                    Repository.Execute(sqlstring);
                }

                finally
                {
                    fs.Close();
                }

}


My problem is, that the SQL-statement doesent work.
The RTF-templates seem to be blobs or OLE-objects in the accessdatabase. I dont understand whats the diference between these both and how to place them in an access-database. Or to be more precisely, i dont know how to convert an byte-array into something, that can be placed in an string-object (the SQL-statement of Repository.Execute()).

I hope you did understnad me. Sorry for my bad english.

Thx

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Installing an C#-Addin and registry

« on: January 08, 2009, 02:50:17 am »

Hello,

can i install an addin (C#, .Net, regasm.exe) without manipulating the registry ?
My customer doesnt have the permission to access the registry  
 
Thx

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Access a project-path via automation interface

« on: November 23, 2008, 06:20:00 am »

Oh thank you ...

Well, i searched and searched and didnt find anything.
Could be caused by the fact, that "ConnectionString" is not a very intuitive name for a project-path or a filename.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Access a project-path via automation interface

« on: November 22, 2008, 01:09:13 am »

Altough i never get any answers to my questions in this forum, i'll give it another try.  

This time i need to access the path or directory of a currently open project or its corresponding eap-file with my C#-addin.
I want to generate a new directory inside the directory, which contains the eap-file.
I want to use this directory as a workingdirectory for my addin.

Does someone have a clue ? I didnt find any poperties or methods in the Repository-class which deal with this topic (for example "Repository.getProjectPath()").  

Thx

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Which template does EA's RunReport() use ?

« on: November 18, 2008, 10:07:57 pm »

Im writing a Report-Plugin for EA.
I have following code-snippet:

^{project.RunReport(package.PackageGUID, RTFTemplateName, (string) fileName );}

Although the string "RTFTemplateName" might not be valid, the runreport-function runs and generates a report without a warning.
But which template does it use instead ?

thx

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / The Function RunReport() and Word-Substitutions

« on: November 06, 2008, 09:12:50 pm »

Good Morning,

I wrote a C#-Add-In for the EA for reporting purposes.
I use the RunReport()-Function of the AI.
How can i use wordsubstitutions ? And how can i convey the specific substitutions i want to use ?

thx