Tables and multi-level lists in notes fields

[Peter Bull]

Hi

As we are trying to use Sparx to produce more documentation automatically it would be very useful to have a more powerful rtf editor in the notes fields.

Tables and lists with mulitple levels (i.e. 1, 2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 4, etc) would be really useful.

We are even trying to automatically produce installation guides.

Cheers

Pete

[Luis J. Lobo]

Look at "Linked Document" functionality. Find in the EA help.

[Peter Bull]

I enjoy the Linked Document Artefacts functionality and can set a linked doc artefact by right-clicking the object and choosing "Create linked document".  

This document artefact then appears when I generate Documentation.

However, the Sparx EA helpdocumentation seems to suggest I can get this same functionality by linking a document artefact to another object via a dependency.  But I cannot get that to work - the artefact does not appear in the generated Documentation.  See URL to help below:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/modeling_with_uml/linking_documentation.html

Any pointers to get this linkae route to work?

[Luis J. Lobo]

Put the Linked Document inside the required UML element, not indirectly on an related Artifact.

[Peter Bull]

Yep - I stuck the artifact inside the object and it worked fine.  I was hoping to have a separate package holding the document artefacts and with diagrams linking them to the appropriate objects.  But it was not to be.

Another issue is I have an activity with activities within it, and when documentation is generated the activites within are listed in the document in alphabetical order.  The settings on generate document indicate I want documentation generated with elements in tree order, but this appears to being ignored.  Any ideas (aside from my current approach of adding numbers at the beginning of each sub-activity to force the order).


Thanks for your help.