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General Board / Customize contents of Diagram Notes

« on: December 04, 2020, 06:55:08 pm »

Is there any way to define what text shall be shown in the "Diagram Notes" common element?

By default, it shows diagram

• name,
• author,
• version,
• created timestamp,
• updated timestamp.

I would love to skip the version and restrict the timestamps to the day and omit the time. The manual ^{https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.0/modeling/addpropertiesnote.html} states: "You cannot change the content". Is that really true? 

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General Board / Hide stereotype label from UML component

« on: November 19, 2020, 03:20:48 am »

In a diagram, I want to not show the stereotype label of elements which are of a certain stereotype (because I need to modify the element's layout using shape script which I can only achieve for stereotyped elements).

According to the manual ^{https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/drawing_methods.html},

Code: [Select]

shape middlebottomlabel { print(""); }
should "suppress the default stereotype label", but it doesn't. Even if I use the middletoplabel. Or any other label. Even

Code: [Select]

hidelabel("middletoplabel")

or middlebottomlabel doesn't hide thelabel.

To hide all stereotype label as suggested at StackOverflow ^{https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54693762/how-to-hide-stereotypes-labels-from-my-profile} is not an option for me, since some elements need a visible stereotype.

What do I miss? Any hint?

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General Board / Modify minimal height of UML model elements?

« on: November 13, 2020, 06:07:54 pm »

Hi all,

The visualization of UML model elements respects minimal width and height of the displayed element's bounding box.

However, the minimal height of a component is imho too high which wastes a lot of space in diagrams. The height of the component box twice the height of the component icon. Looks inappropriate.

How can I modify the element's minimal height or switch off the min width/height check in general?

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Bugs and Issues / Keystore Service on virtual host: change of CPUs leads to Active Directory issue

« on: February 13, 2020, 09:16:50 pm »

This is to warn other users who might run into similar troubles.

We have set up a Sparx Keystore Server to maintain our Enterprise Architect Corporate floating licenses using the Active Directory authentication method. Due to the limited performance requirements, we are using a virtual machine with a single CPU.

This worked well for some time. Since we experienced performance issues concerning the machine’s interactivity at boot time, we increased the number of virtual CPUs from 1 to 2. From this time on, we were unable to check out any EA license. When eventually returning to let the virtual machine use only a single CPU, everything returned to normal.

This one was rather tricky since there is no obvious connection between the cause of the error and the observed symptoms. 

Details of observed behaviour

After increasing the number of CPUs, EA was still able to contact the license server (using the “Test” button when entering the SSKS data), but there was no “Product” offered to select. This usually means that the user is not member of the required AD group. The Keystore Manager application was able to contact the License Service and displayed the correct number of stored floating license. Unfortuately, it was unable to show the details (list of licenses, check out time, user, valid until etc) but showed a ‘connection lost’ error instead.

The ssks logfile did not give useful hints. In fact, it was misleading. Reasserting a checked out license failed:

REASSERT FAIL, dilbert, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect build 1513, xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx, EA Corporate Edition, SSKSAnonymous:: dilbertsmachine\dilbert,  Error: User 'dilbert' not permitted to checkout product EA Corporate Edition

Checking out licenses just failed without notice.

Since it appeared that the AD authentication no longer worked, I added a section to the auth config:

GROUP
       Name=SSKSAnonymous
       IsManager=false
END GROUP

and as expected, the KeyStore Manager was able to show the license details. However, we were not able to find any problem with the AD configuration.

It took some serious effort to analyze the situation. Eventually we gave up and had the idea to return to single CPU which turned out to solve the problem.

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General Board / Customize Properties Dialog Behaviour?

« on: June 12, 2018, 06:43:16 pm »

Is it possible to customize the behavior when a properties dialog is opened? I find it very annoying that in a state chart a transition dialog opens with the "Guards" property tab activated. I would prefer the "General" property tab.

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General Board / Access keystore file non-interactively?

« on: April 16, 2018, 06:05:50 pm »

Hi all,

I would like to analyze the usage of our file-based floating licenses (e.g. who, when, how often). At the moment, I am using the Keystore Manager utility which provides all the required data. However, for data acquisition, the tool is rather inconvenient. Is there any intended way to retrieve the data using a regularly executed script?

Cheers,
rty

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General Board / Class Diagrams: Association End Owned by a Class

« on: February 02, 2016, 09:22:46 pm »

According to http://www.uml-diagrams.org/association.html, it is fine to use the attribute notation for association end owned by a class to make it perfectly clear that the attribute is also an association end:



Unfortunately, I was not able to reproduce that using EA. I can create the dot notation, I can create the attribute notation, but EA can not see that those are identical.

Background: I want to create one diagram which shows a classes contents explicitly using not notations and visualize the contents using the attribute notation in other diagrams which just use the class. Is that possible?

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General Board / Image quality when copying diagrams to clipboard

« on: September 04, 2015, 06:07:44 pm »

Hi all,

When copying a diagram to the clipboard, the image quality is not as I would have expected it. Here is an example (sorry for using an external server -- I was not able to figure out how to upload images to this board: http://www44.zippyshare.com/v/qGoL6pFH/file.html

Please note what might have been the shadow on the 'ActivityInitial' and 'ActivityFinal' nodes which looks like primitive pixel art from the ancient times.

The same diagram, saved to image file at 100% resolution gives an image of almost identical size but appropriate quality: http://www44.zippyshare.com/v/EoGSblA5/file.html

Am I doing anything wrong?

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General Board / Modify size of arrowheads?

« on: April 16, 2015, 01:23:44 am »

Hi all,

Unfortunately, I was not able to find out if / how to customize the size of arrowheads, e.g. in activity diagrams.  :-?
Can anybody help?

Cheers,
Rene

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Bugs and Issues / Display max. diagram size using custom paper width

« on: July 17, 2015, 06:56:08 pm »

Hi all,

When drawing diagrams, I would like to let EA show me how large a diagram can be so that it would fit into the usable space of my document (16.49x24.19cm) without being downscaled. I thought, I could define a custom paper size to achieve this.

Unfortunately, the dialogue Tools > Options > Diagram > Page Setup lets me select a pre-defined paper size, but even when selecting "Custom Paper Size", I am unable to define the width and height.

Is there any other approach?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / PutDiagramImageOnClipboard image resolution

« on: September 04, 2015, 06:10:08 pm »

Using the Project class OLE interface PutDiagramImageOnClipboard retrieves a diagram from EA and puts it into the clipboard. Unfortunately, the image resolution is unearthly bad. For a medium sized diagram (fits to half a page, format 'Letter'), the text is barely readable.

Any way to improve that?