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General Board / Re: Do you model separate blocks when creating interfaces in SysML?

« on: May 13, 2024, 06:18:37 pm »

Hi

In EA v16, you can create an Association between two Blocks and then use Information Flows Realized to specify what is flowing between the blocks:

BUT

You can only use classifiers such as Blocks and Value types, You cannot use any classified type and such as a Value Property like liquid : Water

I cannot find a way round this, unless I name a Value Type as liquid : Water (which I don't like).

Phil

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MSScript for EA 16 64 Bit

« on: May 05, 2024, 10:58:24 pm »

Hi Jan

Apologies I found your JavaScript version just after posting my previous message

Thanks again for both versions of this script

Phil

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MSScript for EA 16 64 Bit

« on: May 05, 2024, 10:50:45 pm »

Hi Jan

Fantastic! Thanks a lot.

Does anyone out there have a JavaScript version of this?

Phil

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General Board / Re: Time aware modelling - Clone structure as new version

« on: April 30, 2024, 05:43:36 pm »

Hi

Sparx EA does not enforce the structure you describe. By default when you add a BPMN 2.0 diagram to a package you should see a dialog asking whether you want to

a) Create the diagram as a child of "model" element (as you have done)

OR

b) Create the diagram directly in the package (this is what I do)

If you choose option b) then Time Aware modelling should work fine.

BUT there is a checkbox Do Not Show this Dialog Again (or similar wording), if in the past you have checked this, then that would explain why you always get option a)

I am unsure how to "uncheck" the Do Not Dialog Again option, but maybe someone else here has that answer 

Of course, having created your structure, as per option a), you could always move things around to get option b).

Phil

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Navigation Cell hyperlink details lost with deleted diagram

« on: February 24, 2024, 01:00:07 am »

Thanks

I have solved my own problem 

The ID of the navigation cell linked diagram ID is in PDATA1, but this must be stored as an Int32 and then everything works just fine!

Phil

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Navigation Cell Hyperlink Property

« on: February 24, 2024, 12:59:44 am »

Thanks

I have solved my own problem 

The ID of the navigation cell linked diagram ID is in PDATA1, but this must be stored as an Int32 and then everything works just fine!

Phil

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Navigation Cell Hyperlink Property

« on: February 21, 2024, 10:58:56 pm »

This is a long shot, but does anyone out there know where in the repository database are the details of the Navigation Cell Hyperlink property is stored?

I cannot find it anywhere ... its not t_xref

I would like to know for an add-in I am creating which needs to manipulate Navigation Cells.

I have found that the ID of the diagram the Navigation Cell links to is held in the PDATA1 field of the t_object table for the Navigation Cell entry. But this is not the complete picture.

Phil

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Navigation Cell hyperlink details lost with deleted diagram

« on: February 21, 2024, 10:54:50 pm »

I have just noticed this as well

On a related topic, where in the repository database are the details of the Hyperlink property stored?

I cannot find it anywhere ...

I would like to know for an add-in I am creating which needs to manipulate Navigation Cells.

I have found that the ID of the diagram the Navigation Cell links to is held in the PDATA1 field of the t_object table for the Navigation Cell entry. But this is not the complete picture.

Phil

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General Board / Re: Toolbox is not working

« on: January 05, 2024, 01:14:15 am »

Have you tried clicking the >> icon (just above the Sparx Logo Start Page)

This hides / shows the toolbox

In my EA install toolbox is hidden by default, maybe this is your issue?

Phil

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Close the Search Window

« on: December 05, 2023, 11:42:28 pm »

Hi All

It is possible to display results from a SQL Search within a Script to the Search Window.

BUT it appears there is no way to close the Search Window within the Script.

On the first execution the results display correctly, but on all subsequent executions, blank rows appear s the last rows in the Search Window.

Does anyone know how to close the search window within a script? I am using EA  16.1 latest build 64 bit and my script is written in JavaScript.

Many thanks
Phil

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Session.Prompt Dialog

« on: November 08, 2023, 11:34:08 pm »

I am playing around with Model based add-ins using EA version 16.11.1627 64bit

Just, for the moment a simple menu to display an About box. The About box is displayed using Session.Prompt

This works fine, except that EA appears to hang with OK is clicked with the "blue circle of death" and will eventually (after about 45 secs to 1 minute) close the dialog.

Anyone else experienced this? If so, did you find a solution?

I suppose the delay does give the user time to read the dialog. 

Phil

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General Board / Re: HTML report of diagrams only

« on: October 04, 2023, 08:36:21 pm »

With EA open and a repository open:

1) Click the Resources tab in the Browser
2) Right-click HTML Publishing and select Create HTML Template
3) Provide a name for your template, for example Diagram Only
4) Click on the section named Body - Diagram and you will see the following in the editor

<div class="PageBody">
   <div class="diagram_image"> #IMAGE# </div>
   <div class="ObjectTitle">#NAME# : #TYPE# diagram</div>
   <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ObjectDetails">
      <tr>
         <td width="15%" class="ObjectDetailsTopic">Created:</td>
         <td width="85%" class="ObjectDetailsValue">#CREATEDATE#</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td width="15%" class="ObjectDetailsTopic">Modified:</td>
         <td width="85%" class="ObjectDetailsValue">#MODDATE#</td>
      </tr>
      <tr style="padding-top: 10px;">
         <td width="15%" class="ObjectDetailsTopic"><button onclick="switchProjectProperties()"><img src="#IMAGES#/plus03.gif" align="absmiddle" id="proj" /></button>Project:</td>
         <td width="85%" class="ObjectDetailsValue"></td>         
      </tr>
      <tr id="proj00" style="display: none;">
         <td width="15%" class="ObjectDetailsTopic" style="padding-left: 18px;">Author:</td>
         <td width="85%" class="ObjectDetailsValue">#AUTHOR#</td>
      </tr>
      <tr id="proj01" style="display: none;">
         <td width="15%" class="ObjectDetailsTopic" style="padding-left: 18px;">Version:</td>
         <td width="85%" class="ObjectDetailsValue">#VERSION#</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td width="15%" class="ObjectDetailsTopic"><button onclick="switchAdvancedProperties()"><img src="#IMAGES#/plus03.gif" align="absmiddle" id="adv" /></button>Advanced:</td>
         <td width="85%" class="ObjectDetailsValue"></td>         
      </tr>
      <tr id="adv00" style="display: none;">
         <td width="15%" class="ObjectDetailsTopic" style="padding-left: 18px;">ID:</td>
         <td width="85%" class="ObjectDetailsValue">#GUID#</td>
      </tr>
   </table>
   #NOTE#
</div>

5) Delete everything except line 2 <div class="diagram_image"> #IMAGE# </div>

This should leave:

<div class="PageBody">
   <div class="diagram_image"> #IMAGE# </div>
</div>

6) Click Save then Close

When you generate the HTML change the Style from <default> to your template name and all should be fine

Hope this helps

Phil

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Extracting Available Element Types in Add-In

« on: July 31, 2023, 06:40:06 pm »

You can extract the fully qualified stereotype including the MDG name from the dreaded t_xref table

XrefID,Name,Type,Visibility,Namespace,Requirement,Constraint,Behavior,Partition,Description,Client,Supplier,Link,

{B8B468ED-8D4F-415c-8130-9108013D6A2C},Stereotypes,element property,Public, , , , ,0,@STEREO;Name=FunctionalRequirement;FQName=EAREQ::FunctionalRequirement;@ENDSTEREO;,{00196C9C-8221-4405-A5C3-616FC03FAA52},<none>, ,

The t_xref column is Description and the FQ stereotype is held in a; delimited string, for example FQName=EAREQ::FunctionalRequirement;

So, to discover the MDG for a particular element (or connector)

1) Create a SELECT query that extracts t_xref.Description from the join of t_object and t_xref, using t_object.ea_guid and t_xref.Client
2) Extract you MDG by extracting the necessary substring.

An example of a SQL query to perform the above (without the substring extraction) is:

SELECT t_xref.Description
FROM t_object, t_xref
WHERE t_object.ea_guid = t_xref.Client
AND t_object.ea_guid = 'GUID of your element /connector here'

Other methods of joining tables are available 

Phil

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General Board / Re: What is the rule for generating GUIDs for tag values in a profile?

« on: July 10, 2023, 07:51:13 pm »

I agree do not create elements directly in the database without using the EA API.

I also believe creating elements directly in the database without using the EA API, contravenes the EA licence agreement, so maybe worth check that out.

Phil

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General Board / Re: Text search upon SysML1.5 Requirement 'text' property

« on: June 29, 2023, 11:57:37 pm »

Geert is correct, the text property for a SysML requirement is indeed stored as a tagged value.

Phil