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General Board / Overriding default toolboxes in an MDG

« on: November 08, 2007, 03:02:50 am »

I'm so close!!

I have created a version of the requirements toolbox with our stereotyped versions of the elements and connectors. As the last step I wanted to override the default UML requirements toolbox with our own tailored version. I followed the instructions in the user guide and added the redefinedtoolbox instruction in the notes for the diagram scoped to the toolbox profile, but when I generate the MDG and use it it doesn't override the default requirements toolbox!! I'm using a class diagram for the toolbox profile (not sure if this is relevant or not)!

This is what I put in the diagram notes:

RedefinedToolbox=Extended::Requirements;Alias=Requirements;Notes=Structural elements for requirements diagrams;

I added the MDG by adding a path in Settings|MDG Technology to the MDG XML file.

The toolbox appears in the More Tools... list, but doesn't override the default requirements toolbox when I open a requirements diagram.

I also did a bit of digging into the MDG XML and noticed that the ICONIX MDG technology XML contains the following elements in the definition of the UI Toolbox section:

<Options>
  <Option name="RedefinedToolbox" value="Extended::Analysis"/>
</Options>

When I generate my MDG this doesn't appear in the XML.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Does the EA BPMN MDG fully support BPMN 1.0??

« on: October 26, 2007, 03:13:34 am »

I've got the latest version of EA (7.0.817) and have just started to look at the BPMN profile. Comparing what seems to be available with the BPMN 1.0 spec there seem to be some things missing from EA, the omissions seem to be mainly around the stereotypes for the different objects.

For example, in BPMN, EA supports the three Flow Dimensions for an Event (Start, Intermediate, End), but doesn't seem to support the Tyep Dimension (Message, Timer, Error, etc).

Am I missing something?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / XMI and BPMN

« on: October 26, 2007, 03:32:55 am »

My organisation would like to perform all of the design activities going forward within EA.

We are also currently looking at BPM tools.

Ideally we would like to be able to design the processes in EA and be able to export them to the BPM tool. It would also be good if we could make changes to the process in the BPM tool and import those changes back into EA. (The BPM tools that we are looking at both support BPMN, but not XMI)

Would I be right to assume that the standard XMI export/import mechanism will not be able to handle either creating BPMN or consuming it? If this is the case, could I run a transformation from XMI to BPMN and vice-versa? Finally, if it is possible to transform between the two formats, how do I work out how to do it!!!!