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General Board / UC Scenarios flushed at import

« Last post by elr on August 14, 2026, 06:27:42 am »

Hello all,

In a package,we created some UC and fullfilled them with detailed scenarios (Basic Path, Exceptions and several steps and actions...)
Importing (native/XMI format) these UC into a main model, we recover them but none of the related scenarios is here. Everything stripped

Does somebody has any idea where the issue may come from  ?

Thx in advance.
Eric

(EA 17.1.1716, PCS/SQL Azure  12.0) !

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General Board / Re: How to switch user using v17.2.1721

« Last post by PeterHeintz on August 13, 2026, 07:24:33 pm »

Good question!
I ask myself how an admin can work without admin rights!?!

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General Board / Re: EA performance issues with IBDs

« Last post by PeterHeintz on August 13, 2026, 04:43:09 pm »

This is an issue related to complex diagrams. I analized that some time ago and as I remember the reason is, that it checks for whatever reason any item on the diagram and maybe even more if the element is locked. My solution: I avoid complex diagrams;). For IBD e.g. I have many under a complex block focusing on different aspects. 

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General Board / EA performance issues with IBDs

« Last post by jas11 on August 12, 2026, 05:47:25 pm »

We're experiencing some significant performance issues in EA (v17.1.1714), specifically when working with Internal Block Diagrams (IBDs).

We have a fairly complex IBD containing around 20 properties. When the diagram is first opened, any changes made to it can take several minutes to save. Similar performance degradation occurs when enabling/disabling ports on properties or assigning flow properties to connectors within the diagram.

The issue only affects the initial save or the first port/connector operation. Subsequent saves and port/connector updates are performed in an acceptable timeframe. However, if the diagram remains open but inactive for a few minutes, or is closed and reopened, the performance issues return and the next operation is again very slow.

Our initial assumption was that the problem might be related to network or server performance, as we're using a Microsoft SQL Server repository. However, as a test, I created a local file-based repository containing the same model and observed similar behaviour. Performance was somewhat better than with SQL Server, but the issue was still present.

Has anyone experienced similar behaviour with IBDs, or are there any known causes or diagnostic steps we should investigate?

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General Board / Re: Repository.Execute no longer works in JScript

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on August 10, 2026, 09:58:29 pm »

I've sent an email to support about this one, and the restrictions on Repository.SQLQuery (where you can't select from certain tables anymore, e.g. t_seclocks)

Hoping for an alternative

If they can't provide an alternative solution, I'm guessing I'll have to resort to a direct database connection to execute these type of queries/updates.
The upside of that would be that it would be a lot faster then going through Repository.SQLQuery
Obvious downside if that you have to manage your own database connection.

Geert

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General Board / Re: Repository.Execute no longer works in JScript

« Last post by philchudley on August 10, 2026, 06:29:41 pm »

I agree Geert, there's a lot of scripts I have developed for clients and myself which are going to break if they upgrade to EA v 17.2

Not good 

Phil

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General Board / Re: Repository.Execute no longer works in JScript

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on August 10, 2026, 04:55:19 pm »

I'm guessing this is one of the "security" fixes, but I'm pretty worried about that myself.

There are quite some things that are not possible in the API without resorting to the Repository.Execute backdoor method.
If this method is indeed no longer available, that would break quite a few of my add-ins and scripts.

Geert

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Database Query Restrictions in Enterprise Architect 17.2

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on August 10, 2026, 04:51:57 pm »

Additionally, the `Repository.SQLQuery()` method apparently only allows `SELECT` queries, meaning that it can no longer be used to execute `INSERT` or `UPDATE` statements.

This has always been the case. For insert or update statements, you needed Repository.Execute(), which apparently has been disabled as well.

Geert

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General Board / Re: Performance impact of reverse-engineering large databases

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on August 10, 2026, 04:48:31 pm »

Hi Andrea,

The reverse engineering process itself, importing thousands of tables might take a (very) long time.
Once imported I don't believe it will have an impact on the performance of your repository.
I don't see a benefit to splitting that up into different repositories.

But you might want to think about the whole reverse engineering/comparing those very large databases.
We eventually settled on importing only a the subset of tables that we were actually using (of a large ERP system). That is about 600 tables instead of 8000. That was much faster to import/compare

Geert

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General Board / How to switch user using v17.2.1721

« Last post by ppeeters on August 07, 2026, 11:54:59 pm »

Hello,

Since the ability to switch user has been removed from 17.2.1721 ('Login as another user' ), how can I switch to an administrative user if the cloud repository is configured for Windows and OpenID authentication ?
On window, it automatically authenticates using the windows user and then I'm stuck.