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Because no fields have been added to the DB schema since at least 2004. (Version 4.0 of EA was the last one that required a database upgrade. Even then I don't think that upgrade was significant.)But properties have been added - left, right and centre...
You could have searched the Help for the exact option text you saw - 'My Ribbon Sets'. There are three references to customizing the ribbons in the output.Isn't it one of the central tenets of searching that if a specific search finds a set of items "My Ribbon Sets", the more general search e.g. "Ribbon Sets" MUST also find the same set of items?
Anyway, to your questions:Got it. There is one Ribbon Framework, consisting of a variable number of Ribbons, with variable numbers of Sections with Options.
Can I create a new ribbon? Doesn't look like it. I would also like to be able to select menu portions from various other menus in the new Ribbon.
No, you can't create a different ribbon. You can select to show or hide existing ribbons or portions of ribbons as a set. Effectively you ARE creating your own 'super-ribbon', with the existing ribbon, section and option names.
I can select which ribbon portion to show, but that seems to be defective. The whole Ribbon is displayed. Have I misunderstood this functionality?If I select only one section on a ribbon, say Package Section in the Design Ribbon (the others are deselected), the entire Ribbon displays, not just the selected Section. I don't think that's the way it's supposed to work.
Possibly. When I apply a ribbon set and select a ribbon within it, I see the ribbon and the panels within it that I have selected to show. The panels (or complete ribbons) that I have de-selected to hide are not visible.
There is no mechanism to manipulate the Start Menu. I'm too scared to make another menu the default menu in case I lose the Start menu and can't change the Menu Sets any more!I think we should, at least be able to display/not display the Start section option sets. Perhaps, a few need to be permanently available (to inhibit foot shooting), but the rest should be controllable.
Don't be scared, Paolo! From the Help topic: "You cannot hide the 'Start' ribbon, 'Specification - Specify' ribbon or 'Document - Edit' ribbon, or any panels that they contain"The last two sections aren't there. I can hide all the available ribbons except "Start"
You don't hide or render unselectable a ribbon when you set a different one as the default. The default ribbon is the one that is expanded in the ribbon bar when you first open Enterprise Architect. All the other ribbons (within your ribbon set, which always - as the note from the Help states - includes the Start ribbon) are still there to select as and when you wish.
Indeed the ArchiMate "direction" is the reverse of the UML, as it also is with Specialization/Generalization. However, I believe the ArchiMate directionality is more conceptually correct. In both cases, the client and supplier items are at the "Correct" end of the relationship. I'll have to check the direction in the traceability view since I don't use it much - preferring to use our Neighborhood diagrams.Weird thing is that you have to model it with the part as source and the whole as the target.
And there is something fishy going on with the direction as well. If I don't specify anything I get an arrow pointing to the part, and Direction "Destination -> Source"
The code above does the same thing compared to adding one manually.
The ArchiMate direction is the reverse of the UML direction, so properly modelled connections look backwards in the traceability view. Years ago I asked Sparx if they could just flip the ArchiMate shapescript but that idea seemed to fall on deaf ears.
As Francis Urquhart would say... "you might well think that. I couldn't possibly say that!"What SHOULD I have searched for?
... apparently, someone from Sparx who knows the answer (!)
A stereotype always belongs to a profile. The FQN is always unique. The non-FQ name might be ambiguous.We ensure there is NO ambiguity.
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Does it have a "book" widget at the top to ensure it's smooth passage?OK, I'll bite... What's a deportment diagram?
It's an orderly deployment diagram.
OK, I'll bite... What's a deportment diagram?I'd say that when you copied the rest of my script you lost the following from the top of your script.Code: [Select]layouttype="border";
Ahh yes, obviously. Thanks.
I've been busy translated Visio fruit salad into proper deportment diagrams so it's been a bit hard to get my head properly into shape script mode. :-)
Now that I have installed the local Help File from the EAUserGuide.msi file (using the Start | Help | Explore Online Resources | Install Help Locally command), I have searched it and found: 1 Entry for Local Help and NONE for Local User Guide!Start | Help | Explore Online Resources | Install Help LocallyWell, that WAS obvious. ("That was irony, Joyce")
But thanks, hugely! Would never have found it. I tried searching for it in the (online) Help and it didn't find it. Perhaps because I searched for "Local User Guide" not "Local Help".
Paolo
+1!Enable security. That's just what it was designed for. If on takes two steps (lock, delete) it's intentional.
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The idea is to allow connecting elements but not to delete them. It could be better designed if Delete elements was a permission different from Update elements.
