Associate UI Element with Class Attribute

[Rob Dabell]

Is there anyway to do this in v8; as we're spending significant time resolving UI to underlying repoisitory classes; so an automated way to do this would be very useful.

[Geert Bellekens]

Rob,

In what way do you think this should be automated? Should EA guess which attribute the field should be linked to?

Geert

[Rob Dabell]

Sorry, automated is the wrong term there.

What we would like is a way to drill-down from e UI Element to the Class attribute that would populate the field; rather than manually typing in references and having to navigate through a model.

[Geert Bellekens]

I think there are two options then:
- use an association with "link to element feature"
- use a tagged value of type RefGUID that references the attribute.

In the latter case you could make an addin to facilitate the navigation from the GUI element to the attribute.

Look at EA Navigator for inspiration.

(maybe not a bad feature to add, navigating the RefGUID tagged values. I might add that in the next couple of days/weeks)

Geert