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Suggestions and Requests / Re: XSD Datatypes

« on: July 03, 2013, 02:36:31 pm »

I'm not sure if you're seeing more than one error.

I just tried adding a fake "type" stuff to an attribute, and received the error you described.

By changing the name of the type to "xs:stuff" it quite happily was imported into the Schema.

Andy

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: XSD Datatypes

« on: June 27, 2013, 09:05:43 am »

Just a shot in the dark...

Have you defined "types" for your attributes?

Andy

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Suggestions and Requests / Multi Select to work with change default image

« on: May 21, 2012, 03:41:50 pm »

Hi People,

I'd really like it if I could select multiple classes in a diagram before selecting a new default image for those classes.

At the moment, if I select multiple classes, the context menu is no longer available.

If I use the keyboard shortcut, only one class in the selection is updated.

It's only a minor thing, but becomes more annoying when images are lost due to importing a diagram from another model.

Andy

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: RTF generation with images and tables

« on: December 13, 2010, 11:50:49 am »

Eugen,

Is it EA diagrams that you're trying to copy into your word documents?

If so, have a look at "copy RTF bookmark" in the help text.

Following Sparx's instructions, I'm creating RTF documents that contain all the material that I need in my Word documents.

In the Word documents, I have pasted links to "RTF bookmarks" that are embedded in the RTF file.

Provided that you add those bookmarks appropriately, you can update your Word documents to show new information with a few key presses...

i.e. F8 to generate an updated RTF (In EA)

Ctrl-A (Select all in Word)
F9 (Update all selected in Word)

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Alternative/Except flow of the Alternative flo

« on: November 05, 2010, 03:04:57 pm »

I've raised a registered user bug report/request on this issue, I'd really like you all to do the same.

I'm struggling to create a use case in the structured scenario editor that relies heavily on alternative flows within alternative flows.

So far I haven't been able to work around this using extends and includes...

Andy

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Alternative/Except flow of the Alternative flo

« on: September 23, 2010, 02:11:21 pm »

I'll happily second this request.

I'm currently using the clumsy "or returns an error" construct in the TEXT of alternative flows, where really I should be able to define an exception.

I've looked at the include and extend, but this is a bit heavy handed by comparison.

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Suggestions and Requests / Use Case Editor: Automatically Highlight classes

« on: February 22, 2010, 11:13:41 am »

Hi team,

I understand that you have extended functionality in the Use Case editor in release 8.0 to automatically highlight items that appear in the project glossary.

This is a very useful function, and I wonder if you could extend this behaviour to recognising classes in the domain model?

In our Use Cases, we keep the Basic and Alternative flows as simple as possible by referring to details in the domain model as follows:

The system displays a method to enter Search Criteria

Search Criteria would be defined as a class on the domain model, showing the expected sub-types of search criteria, each with its own distinct attributes etc.

This means that the Use Cases are very easy to read, without having to wade through details which are already defined in the domain.

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General Board / Re: Red letter "A" in package diagram

« on: December 14, 2015, 10:38:34 am »

Sorry Roy, in 12.1 it really doesn't.

I searched for 'red triangle' in the application, and it flicked to a web search:

Search Results
Your search for 'red, triangle' found the following documents (of 2574 documents searched):
Displaying documents 1-6 of 6, with best matches first:

No mention of red triangle in the return.

Andy

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General Board / Re: Red letter "A" in package diagram

« on: December 14, 2015, 08:25:37 am »

Part of the problem is every EA version's of help seems to be on the website and the only reliable way to put bounds on your search is to search through the application.

Yep. I've just tried searching for the red things in 12.1 and I just can't find it in the help, via any method.

I must have missed an option to install the help locally.

So far, none of my efforts at RegEx etc. has assisted in searching the online help either.

For example, searching for " red " (spaces either side in case that's not visible) still returns every word containing red.

The search utility is stripping everything out of the search query.

 

I can see that I'm going to spend a lot more of my time explaining things to users.

May I second the suggestion of a user maintained help wiki?

Andy

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General Board / Re: Red letter "A" in package diagram

« on: June 19, 2015, 11:36:21 am »

That is pretty funny.

 

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General Board / Re: Red letter "A" in package diagram

« on: June 17, 2015, 02:50:36 pm »

Seriously.

Just searching for "red" works...

It returns:
Border
Exclamation Mark
Letter A
Letter T
Object Outline
Package Icon Corner
Triangle
Triangle, In Model Search Results

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General Board / Re: EA drifting away?

« on: December 11, 2015, 11:44:45 am »

"Where is KnowledgeWare (IEW/ADW) and Popkin Software (System Architect) today.

I can't help you with the others, but Popkin System Architect is currently called IBM Rational System Architect.

We have the rather humourous IMHO situation here where we develop System Architecture models in Enterprise Architect and
Enterprise Architecture models in System Architect.

 :-?

I'm occasionally required to do the latter, but prefer EA to SA.

  

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General Board / Re: Is there any solution for Docs Generator (RTF)

« on: November 16, 2015, 09:46:06 am »

I don't want to be Dogmatix about this, but I'm certain that he fell into a cauldron when he was a baby...

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General Board / Re: Paper Sizes

« on: October 29, 2015, 10:14:31 am »

The printer driver doesn't have to be for your existing printer.

Install a printer driver that contains the page size you want.

When you print the diagram, select your REAL printer, page size remains the same.

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General Board / Re: Paper Sizes

« on: October 23, 2015, 12:23:01 pm »

Add a printer driver (as qwerty suggests) for example an HP Plotter.

Then you have a huge range of potential page sizes.

I use the driver for HP DesignJet T790ps 44 inch PS3.