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Suggestions and Requests / More than one instance of the Project View

« on: May 04, 2006, 01:42:45 pm »

Be able to create more than one instance of the project view and be able to drag and drop between them.  This would help package restructuring as it would save time.

I have some big packages (ie. reverse engineered data models) and scrolling up / down a list of 400+ tables to relocate into packages takes a lot of time.

Cheers,
David.

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Suggestions and Requests / Diagram filter by property

« on: April 30, 2006, 08:22:04 pm »

I'd like to be able to show a transition from current to target state of our environment as well as a "point in time" view of the future state.

My suggestion to achieve the above, it would be nice to be able to "filter" a diagram based on any combination of arbitrary properties and values.

For example "show me all elements with an approved status, created after 1/7/06"

Thanks,
David.

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Suggestions and Requests / CSV import enhancements

« on: May 01, 2006, 01:16:58 pm »

1. Be able to import custom attributes (ie. on a stereotyped extended metaclass)
2. Be able to define relationships / hierarchy on imported data (so associations are automatically created).

David.

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General Board / Does Custom SQL Search support stored procedures?

« on: January 26, 2009, 02:27:53 pm »

One of my users wants to be able to search on a tagged value, and return a list of elements, and for each element, a comma separated list of elements they related to.

The above cannot be done with a single / simple select statement.  It can however be done using SQL variables or via a stored procedure call.

Is there any way I can get a custom SQL Search to support calling a stored procedure? (Sparx?)

Thanks,
David.

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General Board / Logical (PIM) model to DDL (PSM) transform

« on: January 14, 2009, 06:33:28 am »

I have a many to many relationship between 2 classes.  I need to be able to define extra attributes on the "join", so when EA does a transform from the logical to physical (DDL) model, the join table has the attributes.

I've tried an association class - but this isn't created with the PK/FKs of the 2 classes to be joined.

Is there a way to add "join" attributes at the logical level that will be generated in the DDL model?

Thanks,
David.

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General Board / Round trip XSD

« on: January 12, 2009, 03:30:26 pm »

I have an xml schema (.xsd) that has been updated that I want to refresh in my model.

Simple question... how do I synchronise or re-import the XSD?  EA complains on import that the XSD is already in the model.  Synchronise package with code does nothing (even though the schemaLocation tagged value is a valid path to the up to date XSD).

Am I overlooking something obvious or is this feature not supported?

I'm running 832.

Cheers,
David.

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General Board / Multiple "default appearance"

« on: December 19, 2008, 12:35:56 pm »

I want the background colour of component A to be orange in one diagram and yellow in another simultaneously.

Why can't EA support this?  I understand setting a default - but you don't seem to be able to override on a per diagram basis.

Am I having a tired Friday moment and overlooking obvious functionality? or is this a limitation?

Cheers,
David.

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General Board / Defaulting diagram stereotype in MDG

« on: December 10, 2008, 08:45:59 am »

Sparx gurus,

Can I default the diagram.stereotype in my MDG?

Reason being, I want to be able to test for the type of custom diagram in my shapescript.  I have the following available:

diagram.name = the name the user gives the diagram (no good as user can call it anything)

diagram.type = the base underlying EA type.  No good if I have several diagrams based on the same type (cannot distinguish between them or even vanilla EA diagrams)

diagram.stereotype = always blank.  My idea is to default it for each new diagram then I can test in shapescript

Is defaulting the diagram stereotype possible?  If so - do I put something on the UML PRofile diagram that defines my diagrams, or on the stereotype or base metaclass for the custom diagram type?

Thanks,
David.

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General Board / EA832 - project load speed still slow

« on: September 03, 2008, 07:55:32 am »

I got really excited (like a kid at xmas) when I saw build 832 had optimisations to improve the project load speed on large models....

Well... I tried it and no difference.   Has anyone else noticed a speed improvement on 832?  My model is SQL Server with approx 6300 elements and 2700 packages

Thanks
David.

40

General Board / Setting tagged values based on type to NULL

« on: June 16, 2008, 10:02:47 am »

If I have a tagged value of type DateTime (using the calendar picker) - is there a way my users can set this tag back to a NULL (empty) value?

Thanks,
DAvid.

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General Board / Can new items inherit the locking of their package

« on: March 20, 2008, 08:07:13 am »

Can you configure EA to automatically apply the same type of lock to new elements created under the parent locked package?

If you can't, I will log a feature to enable this.  It would be a good idea to "inherit" the security applied from the parent package similar to when files are created on a file system.

David.

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General Board / SQL Search - how to include search term in query?

« on: March 13, 2008, 01:39:05 pm »

Any ideas?  or am I just not reading the help properly.

For example, I want to return the types and number of diagrams that have the search term in their name as follows:

select t_diagram.diagram_type, count(*)
from t_diagram
where name like '<search_term>'
group by t_diagram.diagram_type

Questions are:
1. Can I include the users search term in the query?
2. What syntax does EA expect so it can substitute the search term?

Cheers,
David.

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General Board / HTML - linking to package tagged values from diag

« on: October 28, 2007, 05:01:50 pm »

I'm having an issue with the web publishing of EA.

The issue I have lies in the HTML published site.
When a package which contains no child diagrams is clicked on, it hyperlinks to the tagged values.
When a package which contains one or many child diagrams is click on, it hyperlinks to the top child diagram.

The issue I have is that if a package has a child diagram you cannot view its tagged values via a html publish unless you click on the package in the left hand navigations bar. I.e. you cannot "drill down" to the tagged values.

Do you know of a work around to overcome this issue?
Is there a way to create a link to the tagged values page of a package (when it has a child diagram)?

Alternatively - can you combine HTML fragments in a web template - such that a package's diagram and or tagged values will appear on the same HTML page? (ie. diagram above the tagged values tab).

Thanks,
David.

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General Board / XML schema import frustration

« on: July 19, 2007, 02:07:52 pm »

Can / does EA support mutliple XSD import in one operation - so that associations betwen elements and types when in multiple schemas are preserved?

Currently, I can only import one schema at a time.  EA won' then create an association between types in different schemas.

Any ideas? (or is this a feature request for Sparx?)

Below is a simple example to illustrate.

I have 2 schemas - Book.xsd and Author.xsd

Author.xsd has an Author type and global element called author
Book.xsd includes the Author.xsd schema.  Book.xsd has a book global element and Book complex type.  The Book complex type has an
<xs:element ref="author"/>

What I want to see is EA create an association between book and author.  Instead I get the Book type imported with a
"ext_ref1: Author" element, then Author imports and of course no association is created between the two.

What I would like is:
a) Ability to import multiple schema in the same operation and for EA to inteligently resolve references between schema and create associations required

b) Be able to merge in changes and not treat a schema import as a "fresh / new" schema. ie. select an existing folder and have an option to "merge in" changes to the XSD files into the existing elements in a model

Cheers,
David.

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General Board / Shape script - conditionally apply?

« on: May 22, 2006, 08:58:21 pm »

Is it possible to have shape script conditionally apply - depending on the package / view / model containing a diagram on which it appears?

My problem is.... one set of architects would like an application (a package with an "application" stereotype) to appear one way, the other group want just a plain UML rendering (ie. a standard package).

Problem is - it is the one "element" in the model and I need to be able to render it 2 ways.

Any help really appreciated.

Cheers,
David.