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General Board / Re: How to copy an Activity into an Activity that calls it?

« Last post by ea1122 on November 14, 2025, 04:24:15 am »

Thank you very much! That worked fine. For some reason the outer Activity diagram boundary disappeared, so I wonder how to restore that so that the Parameter pins and Action pins can be located there?

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General Board / Re: Level Numbering Inactive

« Last post by SafEAty on November 14, 2025, 02:41:32 am »

Hi everyone,

I found the solution myself. The Auto Numbering is not active in the "Requirement" perspective. Changing it back made the feature available.

BR,
SafEAty

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General Board / Level Numbering Inactive

« Last post by SafEAty on November 14, 2025, 01:34:05 am »

Dear all,

I am new to EA and currently setting up my first project. In the tryouts I was able to activate level numbering in the specifcation manager. For some reason it is now not possible to activate it. I have tryed also other (old) files and also there it seems to be deactivated.

Anybody has an idea why it is deactivated and where to reactivate it?

Thanks,
SafEAty

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General Board / Re: How to copy an Activity into an Activity that calls it?

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on November 14, 2025, 12:51:19 am »

You can simply move all Actions (and decisions, etc...) from ActivityA to the calling Activity (drag in project browser) and then put them on the diagram.
Then you can delete Activity A

Geert

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General Board / How to copy an Activity into an Activity that calls it?

« Last post by ea1122 on November 14, 2025, 12:47:07 am »

An activity has a Call(BehaviorAction) to Activity A which is not called anywhere else, so its contents should instead be copied into the calling activity. But when Activity A is copied, it cannot be pasted into the calling activity. Two methods were tried:
1. In browser, right-click Activity A, select Copy/FullStructureForDuplication.
Right-click the destination activity diagram, select Paste (only allows paste of an image).
2. In browser, drag Activity A to the destination activity diagram (allows only paste as an Invocation, Link, or Partition), select Partition (copies empty diagram with param. pins)
Does anyone know how to copy an Activity into an Activity that calls it?

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General Board / Re: How to prevent automatic diagram rescaling?

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on November 13, 2025, 10:46:17 pm »

I've never witnessed this behavior. Do you remember setting a specific setting that started this behavior?

Geert

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General Board / Re: How to prevent automatic diagram rescaling?

« Last post by Ralph Hains on November 13, 2025, 09:40:42 pm »

Did this ever get resolved... it is basically limiting me to using EA for small and simple models and switching tools as soon as models get big and complex (in particular wrt deep hierarchy). It really should be possible to turn this functionality off when it goes past the point where it causes much more work than it removes

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General Board / Re: Does EA allow capturing Win32 UI simulation input and sending it to a database?

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on November 13, 2025, 08:15:37 pm »

EA is a modelling tool that can do some form of simulation.

It is not intended as a subsitute for a real application that can be used in a real environment.

There are other tools that are intended for this purpose (e.g. Camunda)

Geert

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General Board / Does EA allow capturing Win32 UI simulation input and sending it to a database?

« Last post by sude.ciloglu on November 13, 2025, 07:52:34 pm »

I created a Win32 Login UI and a State Machine in EA, and I am running the simulation. My goal is to take the user input entered in the UI , use these values inside the State Machine, and then send them to a database (or generate Java code that can do this). However, EA does not expose or persist any user-entered values during simulation, and Win32 controls do not provide an event panel, so the Simulation Events window remains empty.
My question is: Does EA support capturing UI input during simulation, passing it into the model, and generating code that can forward this data to a database? Or is the intended workflow that UI + State Machine are only for modeling, and real input handling + DB operations must be implemented externally in Java?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Connector multiple selection

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on November 13, 2025, 06:59:17 pm »

I've recently become a user of Enterprise Architect again after several years away and this was the first pain point I ran into when trying to change the line style of my connectors.

I found a work around for my (Data Model) case:
 - Select all diagram elements (Ctrl + a)
 - Open the "Relationships" window
 - Multi-select the relationships / connectors that you want
 - Right click - change line style

That problem is mostly solved by the "apply line style on diagram" option, and without needing to open yet another property window and applying this quirky workaround.

But the fact remains, it would be very helpful if we could multiselect connectors on a diagram.

Geert