Export Diagrams (for link in WordDoc)

[jessicak]

Hello everybody,

we want to use the diagrams created in EA as part of a word document (Software Architecture).
To keep the wordDoc automatically up to date, we've been using the HTML-Export option in EA and linked (not copied) the *.png Files into the wordDoc.
This works fine as long as e.g. nothing in the package structure is changed.

=> Is there any solution to export only the diagrams as images - with a unique ID and without dependency on the path of the package structure?

Many thanks in advance  

[Ian Mitchell]

eaDocX can do this!
Just create an eaDocX 'section' in your Word document, and put a diagram in it. In the background, eaDocX remembers the GUID of the diagram, no matter where you move it to.

[Geert Bellekens]

You can make a very simple script or program to export the diagram images to a file.

Must be no more then 20 lines of code.

Geert

[jessicak]

Thank you both for your fast reply!

@Ian: I'll have a look at the addin

@Geert: I've never been using scripts for EA - do you have a hint where to start learning this, or even a example?

Thx

[qwerty]

Just to throw in my ad :-) The Scripting book might be what you need.

q.

[Dermot]

The RTF reports do support Bookmarks that can be referenced from a Word master Document. That way an update of the RTF report is updated in the Word Master document - see the help page:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/10/reporting/o526.html
Best to to just run a Diagram only report from the RTF report generator.

[Geert Bellekens]

@Geert: I've never been using scripts for EA - do you have a hint where to start learning this, or even a example?

There are a few resources you can look at
- the help file: there a whole automation section in the help file
- Thomas Kilians scripting book: https://leanpub.com/ScriptingEA
- The examples in the installation folder (on my machine on C:\Program Files (x86)\Sparx Systems\EA\Scripts)
- The community site: http://community.sparxsystems.com/community-resources
- this forum (there are a lot of posts with code snippets)
- My blog http://bellekens.com/2011/01/29/tutorial-create-your-first-c-enterprise-architect-addin-in-10-minutes/
- My open source repositories (C#) https://github.com/GeertBellekens

Geert

[jessicak]

Thank you all for your input!!! You're great!!!

The RTF reports do support Bookmarks that can be referenced from a Word master Document. That way an update of the RTF report is updated in the Word Master document - see the help page:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/10/reporting/o526.html
Best to to just run a Diagram only report from the RTF report generator.

@Dermot: This is what I was looking for  

Unfortunatly it only works using the "Rich Text Format (RTF) Report" - if I use the "Diagrams only Report" it seems to me, that the bookmarks are missing in the *.rtf  
Is there any way to configure the "Diagrams only Report" to include the bookmarks also? I'm using EA Version 7.5.847....

[Dermot]

I was meaning to refer to the tempalte supported in the RTF - called (diagrams template) - this does have the Bookmarks.