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Latest News / Enterprise Architect 17.1 - Build 1714

« Last post by sparks on October 23, 2025, 01:35:29 pm »

Sparx Systems announces the official release of Enterprise Architect 17.1 build 1714, on 22nd of October

For more information on Enterprise Architect 17.1, please see:
   https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/17.1/

The release notes can be found in the following locations:
   https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/17.1/history.html


Registered Users can find download links to the EA installers on the following page:
  https://sparxsystems.com/registered/reg_ea_down.html


To report any issues please use the registered bug report form:
   https://sparxsystems.com/registered/forms/reg_bug_report.html

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Latest News / Pro Cloud Server 6.1 - Build 167

« Last post by sparks on October 23, 2025, 01:35:04 pm »

Sparx Systems announces official release of the Pro Cloud Server Version 6.1, build 167 (PCS 6.1)

For more information on the release please see:
    https://sparxsystems.com/products/procloudserver/6.1/

For a full list of features and fixes included please see:
    https://sparxsystems.com/products/procloudserver/6.1/history.html

Both registered Enterprise Architect and Registered Pro Cloud Server Users can find download links to the PCS installers on the following page:
    https://sparxsystems.com/products/procloudserver/downloads.html


The licensing procedures introduced in PCS 5 are still relevant to PCS 6.1 and are documented on the Pro Cloud Server download page (https://sparxsystems.com/products/procloudserver/downloads.html) under the heading "Installing and Registering Pro Cloud Server v5"



If you need any assistance in retrieving your Enterprise Architect/Pro Cloud Server credentials please contact Sparx Systems Sales Team: [email protected]


To report any issues please use:
    http://www.sparxsystems.com/registered/forms/reg_bug_report.html

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General Board / Re: New Book (TOGAF + Sparx Systems EA)

« Last post by Takeshi K on October 23, 2025, 09:34:04 am »

I might not be the person to reply to this question, but I have bought the printed version of the book.
It contains lots of information on how to build our own MDG technology, such as the UML profile and the toolbox profile, so it is better suited to administrators who are preparing a TOGAF-based their own modelling environment.

So, if we want to learn about TOGAF (and ArchiMate) in Enterprise Architect, this book might not be the best place to start. However, if we want to learn how to build their own MDG technology (even if it is not related to TOGAF), this book is very useful.

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General Board / Re: New Book (TOGAF + Sparx Systems EA)

« Last post by Sunshine on October 23, 2025, 08:25:19 am »

Well done spending the time and effort in doing that. I'm sure it will be useful to those who are needing to learn how to use Sparx EA.
Whilst you mention its based around TOGAF you don't mention any notations used. Is it it based around the TOGAF MDG or is it using the Open Groups ArchiMate standard?

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General Board / Re: Show attributes within Data Object

« Last post by Sunshine on October 23, 2025, 08:20:04 am »

Whilst the ArchiMate standard doesn't support attributes you actually can add attributes to a data object and show them in a diagram within Sparx EA. There is an option to show the elements that have stereotypes in their native form by unticking the show stereotype shape in diagram properties. The native form of data object in ArchiMate is a Class in UML. That option means you don't have to duplicate elements however you would be deviating from aligning to the ArchiMate standard.
The other option is to transform ArchiMate Data Objects to UML classes using transformation built into sparx. You'll have to customise a transformation to do that of course as it doesn't come out of the box. This is a more pure approach to modelling that provides you the ability to synch the changes in the data object model (conceptual) to UML class (logical). I was thinking of adopting that last approach on a major transformation program I'm about to join next month.
Hope that helps.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: EA and ChatGPT 5 - the death of the forum?

« Last post by Sunshine on October 23, 2025, 08:02:40 am »

AI needs constant feed of information to be input. Just suppose we all stop using this forum when the next version of Sparx EA comes out then the usefulness of AI will degrade as there will be no new information on the next version of Sparx EA that the users have discovered other than what is in the manuals.

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Bugs and Issues / MDG technology mentioned twice when a view on another technology is included

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on October 23, 2025, 01:20:33 am »

I'm working on an MDG technology that includes a view specification of a BPMN2.0 diagram.
(I needed this to be a view specification as the quicklinkers for BPMN2.0 connectors don't work on non BPMN2.0 diagrams)
Now as soon as I added the view specification my technology is mentioned twice when adding a new diagram:

The second one only contains the view specifications

As soon as I remove the BPMN view specification, the second entry dissapears.

Steps to reproduce
- Create an MDG file with a view specification of an existing BPMN2.0 diagram
- Import the MDG file into the model
- Add new diagram
- Notice that the MDG is mentioned twice in the list. Once complete, but without the BPMN view specification, and once only with the view specifications.
This was tested on version 17.0.1704

Reported

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General Board / Re: How to highlight a class attribute?

« Last post by Elpis on October 22, 2025, 01:13:05 am »

Maybe not a delightful idea, but available out of the box in EA:
Place a small Artifact element (some other element types may be suitable as well) on the diagram, near the Class, name it "See new attributes" and add Trace relationships (as few as necessary) to the Class, each with "Link to Element Feature" set to particular 'new' attribute.
'New' attributes will be marked visually by Traces, but only on diagrams where the artifact element will be placed as well.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: EA and ChatGPT 5 - the death of the forum?

« Last post by adepreter on October 21, 2025, 11:53:01 pm »

If nobody adds innovative knowledge to the forum, I wonder what the impact will be on AI's ability to collect a decent level of new and valuable experience-based knowledge.

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General Board / How to highlight a class attribute?

« Last post by Mauricio Moya (Arquesoft) on October 21, 2025, 07:15:07 am »

In a particular diagram, I want to emphasize that a specific class has a newly added attribute. This is only relevant within the context of that diagram and doesn’t need to be a property of the attribute itself, since in future diagrams the same class might be reused, and by then that attribute will no longer be new. At that point, I’ll need to highlight other attributes that are newly added.

In other words, in some diagrams I want to highlight certain attributes, and in others, different ones.

Does anyone have an idea how I could implement this?