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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Document Script gives "expected ';'" Error

« on: January 07, 2016, 12:09:50 am »

Thanks for the pointers Geert! I'd started that way, and then just kept trying every option I could think of to get the trivial example to work.

As you suggested, I moved the code into the "Dummy" script that was referenced in the drop down, and called it from the Custom Fragment as you'd suggested.

There was an error in the change I made too, as I'd missed a parameter from the InsertText field, which caused a "type mismatch" error.

The following code worked:

Code: [Select]

!INC Local Scripts.EAConstants-JScript
function main()
{
Session.Output("Got here!");
    var reporting as EA.DocumentGenerator;
    reporting = Repository.CreateDocumentGenerator();
    if(reporting != null)
    {
        Session.Output("Got here 2!");
if(reporting.NewDocument(""))
        {
            Session.Output("Got here 3!");
if(!reporting.InsertText("This is some text",""))
            {
                Session.Output( "Error: " + reporting.GetLastError() );
            }
Session.Output("Got here 4!");
var retStr;
retStr = reporting.GetDocumentAsRTF();
Session.Output("Got here 5!");
            return retStr;
          }
    }
}

At least, with your help, I've got the trivial example to work now, which is a major step forward.

Sadly, the code I was intending to use seems to cause EA to crash and shutdown.

32

Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Document Script gives "expected ';'" Error

« on: January 06, 2016, 10:14:26 pm »

Hi! It's my first attempt at a Document Script fragment, and everything I've tried either gives me

Error:   
Script Error - xpected ';'   

or nothing happens.

I've copied the example from the manual, and just changed the InsertFile command to InsertText for simplicity, and added a debug line, leaving me with the following:

Code: [Select]

!INC Local Scripts.EAConstants-JScript
function main()
{
     Session.Output("Got here!");
     var reporting as EA.DocumentGenerator;
     reporting = CreateDocumentGenerator();
     if(reporting != null)
     {
          if(reporting.NewDocument(""))
          {
               if(!reporting.InsertText("This is some text"))
               {
                    Session.Output( "Error: " + reporting.GetLastError() );
               }
               return reporting.GetDocumentAsRTF();
          }
     }
}

If I don't have anything in the "Script" combobox, nothing happens. If I have a script, I get the error above. In order to make sure that the script selected didn't cause the issue, I've created an empty "Dummy" script. Still no joy. Everything I do either gives the error above, or nothing happens - i.e. no text, and no debug message.

Has anyone got this working and can anybody suggest what I'm doing wrong. I'm sure it's obvious, but just not to me.

Thanks!

Screwtape.

33

Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Example for "Document Script" fragment

« on: January 06, 2016, 09:01:22 pm »

D'oh! I looked at all the manual pages except that one - assuming that "Custom Query Fragments" meant SQL Query, rather than more general custom fragments.

I knew I'd found it before...

Thanks!

34

Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Example for "Document Script" fragment

« on: January 06, 2016, 08:06:04 pm »

Hi!

Can anyone point me to an example of a "document script" custom fragment script, as while the document script fragment type has been added in EA12.1, it seems not to have been added to the documentation.

I know I've seen an example somewhere, but neither searching this forum, the main Sparx site, or Google seems to find it.

Thanks!

Screwtape.

35

Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / What Links Collaboration Model Element from Process Element

« on: January 05, 2016, 09:48:28 pm »

Hi!

Since EA12, when adding a pool to a BPMN diagram, EA asks if you want to create a dedicated collaboration. This makes a lot of sense as otherwise you have the same pools and lanes defined under each process which is diagrammed.

However, that now means that the activities created within the pools and lanes now are owned by the lanes/pools which are children of a collaboration element, rather than the process/activity to which they belong.

I have scripted a documentation process that recursively documents the activities within a process/activity, but this will now not find the child activities any more.

How do you navigate in the model from Parent Process A, through Parent Collaboration B, to child activity C when there doesn't appear to be any link between A and C, or between A and B, except the diagram which is a child of A?

Thanks!

Screwtape.

36

Suggestions and Requests / Re: Improve Shape Script!

« on: November 12, 2014, 03:03:37 am »

Thanks for the example KP - it's made demonstrating my issue much easier.



In order to make a good looking service bus cylinder it is necessary that the curves of the shape are related only to the height of the shape and not the width. Since by definition, service bus shapes are often long and narrow, they look rather stupid on EA if they look like the bottom one.

It would seem that this can't be done with Shape Script at present, which really rather limits what it can do with it. As Sunshine says, there are already fully functional scripting engines in EA, so use them for drawing too!

37

Suggestions and Requests / Improve Shape Script!

« on: November 08, 2014, 02:40:32 am »

Hi!

I'm trying to improve on the embarrassing "cylinder" used for servicebus stereotypes.

However, having read the shapescript documentation, I can't see any way of finding out the size or aspect ratio of the object being laid-out.

You also can set scaling either on, fixed aspect, or off. I've even tried to add a sub-shape with fixed aspect, within a non-fixed main shape, but that doesn't work either.

I'm told on the forum, that shapescript doesn't have any arithmetic or the ability to scale components of the shape differently from the whole.

This makes it impossible to define any usable shapes that scale in non-linear or aspect dependant way. It means you couldn't, for example, use shapescript to create a "Node" box, which scales relating to the size of the front face, but not the "depth" of the box.

This really need to be improved! Please give me a way of showing a professional looking cylinder!

38

Suggestions and Requests / Can we have a decent icon for <<servicebus>>

« on: September 12, 2014, 11:56:56 pm »

The current icon - a rounded rectangle with an elipse on one end, only approximates a cylinder from a distance, and only if you don't want it to be very long.

This really lets EA down, and makes EA diagrams look very poor compared to Visio et al.

39

Suggestions and Requests / Re: Please can we have GetByName for Connector Tag

« on: September 26, 2014, 07:35:15 pm »

I've worked around it by iterating over the list, but it's just the inconsistency between the different collection types that seems odd.

40

Suggestions and Requests / Please can we have GetByName for Connector Tags

« on: September 26, 2014, 06:07:30 pm »

It appears the GetByName method on collections is content specific, and not implemented for TaggedValues belonging to Connector elements.

Please get it done as it's a real pain to have two different ways of accessing my TaggedValues.

Thanks!

41

Suggestions and Requests / Re: RTF reports: see chapter, see diagram

« on: September 19, 2014, 10:36:21 pm »

Here here!

42

Suggestions and Requests / Custom Data Fragments with Multiple Datasets

« on: August 29, 2014, 05:41:37 am »

I'd really like to be able to have nested datasets in a single custom fragment. I want produce a number of tables, in a fragment, but the current system only seems to allow a single series of rows, and no nesting or anything like that.

Given that I'm returning an XML dataset, it would seem to be the ideal format to allow that.

43

Suggestions and Requests / Structured scenarios need more flexibility

« on: July 23, 2014, 05:53:08 pm »

Hi!

I need to be able to have looped steps, and to have alternate paths availabile within alternate paths, and to have excpetions within alternatives and alternatives within excetptions.

The current system is fine for very simple processes, but I don't want to have to break down the activity, which is at the right level currently, into another level of diagrammes and activities, when more flexible structured scenarios would suffice, and be more appropriate for my model.

Thanks!

44

General Board / Prevent Return Type Suffix on Elements

« on: November 04, 2015, 09:00:56 pm »

Hi!

Does anyone know how to stop EA suffixing the "Name" attribute (when queried) with the return type?

It doesn't appear in the "properties" window, but it does on the main project browser, and also when using "Element.Name" in a document.

Thanks!

Screwtape.

45

General Board / Re: Missing Tools Menu

« on: July 23, 2015, 05:12:24 pm »

Thanks Simon!

That worked perfectly!

Perhaps though, there ought to be a menu option to reset the workspace to default which can't be hidden, as should this have been a corporate PC I'd not have had access to the registry.

Thanks again!

Screwtape.