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General Board / Re: Security Disabled - How to reset security

« on: October 23, 2017, 08:57:27 pm »

FYI, this appears to have been fixed/reset by updating the t_secpolicies table and disabling the UserSecurity Property.

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General Board / Re: Basic Approval Workflow

« on: September 08, 2017, 02:26:10 am »

EA simply doesn't have the necessary concepts to implement a propose-review-approve cycle.

Such a cycle typically includes the following steps:

• Changes to a configuration item are proposed.
• Proposed changes are submitted for review and approval.
• Reviewers approve or reject changes.
• A new version of the configuration item is released, or the item is reverted to the previous version.

EA doesn't have a concept of a configuration item in the first place, so everything else falls down.

Does anyone know whether the "Formal Review" functionality released by Sparx in verson 13.5 of EA supports this sort of cycle?

I had a quick look at this.  The short answer is no. 

But as "Formal Reviews" has only just been introduced in 13.5 perhaps it will be enhanced. 

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General Board / Re: Basic Approval Workflow

« on: September 05, 2017, 02:43:16 am »

EA simply doesn't have the necessary concepts to implement a propose-review-approve cycle.

Such a cycle typically includes the following steps:

• Changes to a configuration item are proposed.
• Proposed changes are submitted for review and approval.
• Reviewers approve or reject changes.
• A new version of the configuration item is released, or the item is reverted to the previous version.

EA doesn't have a concept of a configuration item in the first place, so everything else falls down.

Does anyone know whether the "Formal Review" functionality released by Sparx in verson 13.5 of EA supports this sort of cycle?

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General Board / Re: Use Case x Test Case

« on: September 04, 2017, 07:10:44 pm »

Anyhow, AFAIK the csv import can only import one dimension. The relation between elements needs to be added manually or with another script.

That's not completely true, a simple hierarchy is supported in the csv importer.  See

http://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/13.5/model_publishing/using_preserve_hierarchy.html

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General Board / Re: Data Dictionary

« on: September 04, 2017, 07:03:38 pm »

It's none of those Roy.   The white paper is actually called "Data Modelling - From conceptual model to DBMS", which means you can't find it searching on "Data Dictionary".   

This is an official, albeit old, paper written by Sparx that was originally on the main Sparx site in the white papers section.  Not sure why it's been removed from there, perhaps because it's been superceded by more recent functionality in EA?

Anyway, it can still be found on the community site at this link    http://tinyurl.com/y9twq3sg

As I said before the data dictionary bit is in the appendix from page 16 onwards.   
As it's an old paper, use with caution.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Delphi/Freepascal Generics and Anonymous methods breaks importing into EA

« on: August 07, 2017, 07:05:18 pm »

Have you contacted support as suggested by Simon M. ?

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Kanban Element Inconsistency

« on: August 03, 2017, 06:23:01 pm »

Shouldn't you raise this as a formal support query and/or bug?

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Bugs and Issues / Re: no lock context menu and other issues

« on: July 31, 2017, 10:55:08 pm »

In that case you should probably report it formally to Sparx.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Diagram Filters stored on Diagram level!

« on: July 27, 2017, 06:21:12 pm »

Time to submit enhancements requests then I think..  Further discussion here probably won't go anywhere.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Installation banner of 13.5 version shows 13 version

« on: July 26, 2017, 02:36:49 am »

Actually the correct version number also appears on the start page if you're using that.

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Bugs and Issues / Re: Installation banner of 13.5 version shows 13 version

« on: July 25, 2017, 10:41:34 pm »

Yes, it's irritating you have to go to Help/About EA to find out if it's really 13.5

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General Board / Re: Archimate 3 Composition - Now behaving differently

« on: July 24, 2017, 07:27:47 pm »

For reference you might want to look at this thread

http://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,38290.msg

There is an acknowledged bug for which a fix is awaited.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Be able to upload model images connected via Cloud

« on: July 03, 2017, 11:21:19 pm »

Yes, but rumour has it that there is a fix coming in 13.5

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Diagram Filters stored on Diagram level!

« on: July 03, 2017, 11:20:19 pm »

This topic has come up before and you might want to look at these threads from 2014/2015:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1406020469

http://www.sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,30006.msg219689.html

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General Board / Re: Find Command in EA 13

« on: June 08, 2017, 02:22:16 am »

"Find Command" doesn't always appear. 

It depends on the 'Application Look' you have chosen. 

If you choose Office 2016, then it definitely appears, not sure which others support it.