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General Board / Re: Setting background for connector text to transparent

« on: December 16, 2024, 10:13:37 am »

Hello Bryan,

In the Preference dialog (Ctrl+F9), select the Diagram group, and then deselect the Screen checkbox (and others if needed) in the Use Opaque Diagram Labels panel.

HTH,

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Profile and Stereotypes - Newbie Questions

« on: December 06, 2024, 09:57:49 am »

Hi,

About the second question, if I were you, I would not create the 'hybrid' objects but apply the ArchiMate ApplicationComponent to a Pool as a Classifier. In other words, it seems that you do not need to define your own new type but you can realize what you want as-is.

Usually Pools contains objects on the Pools, that means the contained objects are stored as children in the Browser window. Even if you could define the type, it might not work well in this point. By creating Pools for each diagram, each child object is stored correctly under the proper Pool object.

Please try to create a BPMN Pool and right-click it | Advanced | Instance Classifier | specify the ArchiMate ApplicationComponent, and place the ApplicationComponent directly onto the BPMN diagram (assumed as the component is a Pool), then place BPMN object onto the both 'Pool's. You can understand when you create two or more BPMN diagrams and do the same operations for the two 'Pools'.

HTH,

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Project Browser move enhancements

« on: December 05, 2024, 10:04:15 am »

Using keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V in the Browser can move multiple objects.

HTH,

34

General Board / Re: Can you simulate the basic activity diagram example in EA documentation?

« on: November 26, 2024, 10:18:45 am »

Hello mse,

As you wrote, on my machine the CreateObject has no classifier name like 'CreateObject1: Class1' but I can get the instance and show its attribute value via an ActionPin in the next Action.

I use the build 1704 x64 (not tested on the build 1627), so it might be fixed or you might fail some setting.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: How to add PK to columns of tables via DML operations?

« on: November 20, 2024, 03:09:52 pm »

That is the 'IsOrdered' column of t_attribute.

You can find the related information in the following help page.
https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/17.0/add-ins___scripting/attribute.html

HTH,

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General Board / Re: Failed to get EA::IDualApp interface [0x80029c4a]

« on: November 20, 2024, 03:02:18 pm »

Hi Paolo,

Glad to hear you solved the problem!

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General Board / Re: Failed to get EA::IDualApp interface [0x80029c4a]

« on: November 19, 2024, 06:06:41 pm »

Hi Paolo-san,

I am sorry that my information could not solve your problem.

When the 'win32' key exists and EA 32bit version is NOT installed, Windows cannot find the EA.* COM Objects and this causes the error. Now when installing EA 64bit, the installer creates the 'win64' key and I think it works fine. (i.e., on a fresh Windows environment, I guess that the script with the build 1704 64bit could work fine.)

Anyway, on all my machines, currently the script on EA 64bit works fine. So there might be another reason/condition.

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General Board / Re: Failed to get EA::IDualApp interface [0x80029c4a]

« on: November 19, 2024, 10:02:41 am »

If you use 64bit version of EA and your machine has the following Registry key, renaming it to like 'win32_bak' (to be able to revert) and restart Windows might help you.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{64FB2BF4-9EFA-11D2-8307-C45586000000}\2.a\0\win32

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General Board / Re: V16.1 (1629) and V17 (1704) Released on the same day/ What's going on?

« on: November 15, 2024, 10:51:36 am »

Recently, the release date and the posted date for each release are not the same day.
The build 1629 was released on 04-Oct-2024, not yesterday.

I guess that they found forgetting the post for build 1629 while posting the build 1704 release

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General Board / Re: Why can't I set the Signal values in a SendSignal action?

« on: November 07, 2024, 10:18:29 am »

To save the value , you need to add an ActionPin to the SendSignal action. This is because each parameter is connected to an Action Pin.

But as far as I tried, I cannot get the set value in the AcceptEventAction. I am afraid that we cannot pass parameters of a Signal without using the UIBroadcastSignal.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: EA16.1 Image Asset background issue with a shared DB

« on: November 05, 2024, 10:03:29 am »

Hi Guillaume,

Please check the option 'Ignore image transparency (requires restart)'. This option might affect the result you mentioned. This is a project-specific option so it is reasonable if the option settings are different in the two projects.

HTH,

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Hide stereotype label of an association connector stereotype

« on: November 05, 2024, 09:55:36 am »

Hello Eric,

Please search for the 'showlabel' in the EA help. You can specify which labels are shown and which are not.

HTH,

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General Board / Re: How do you select packages and enforce hierarchy in model documents?

« on: November 01, 2024, 09:51:51 am »

If the package structure is exactly the same as you wrote it, the 'Skip root package' option might help.

HTH,

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General Board / Re: Hiding Out of Scope attributes on a diagram

« on: October 18, 2024, 10:24:20 am »

I do not know if the followings are 'easy', but there are two features to hide attributes:

- element scope: press the custom button in the Compartment Visibility dialog of an element, then specify attributes one by one
- diagram scope: add attribute names to the Supress Compartment Items textboxes in the Features group, the diagram properties dialog

HTH,

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Issue Installing NAFv4-Core MDG Technology (2021.12) – Not Listed in Model Wizar

« on: October 18, 2024, 09:52:29 am »

Hello Gemini,

I do not know about the NAFv4-Core MDG Technology (maybe this is not default installed technology but someone created it), so the followings might be out of the point.

About the pattern, if you could find pairs of xml and rtf files of the same name, they are definition files of the pattern. Try copying these files under %APPDATA%\Sparx Systems\EA\ModelPatterns. You do not need the administrative rights for this copy.

About the perspective, usually perspectives are not added automatically so you need to define your own perspective which includes technologies you want to use. Please add a new perspective and then add NAFv4-Core MDG Technology and all other related technologies (e.g., SysML).

By doing above two actions, you might be able to use the pattern.
(I do not have the NAFv4-Core MDG Technology so I cannot test these steps.)