Recent projects list

[Dines Madsen]

Hello ladies and gentlemen.

I have taken over administration of an Enterprise Architect installation installed on a single terminal and shared between many users. This works great in general, except for when a new user attempts to use EA for the first time.
For first time users, the recent list contains EAExample, as well as our production and test projects. The connection string for production and test are out-of-date though, and need to be updated.

So my question is: Where is this default information stored and how can it be changed?

Thank you for your time.

Best Wishes
Dines Madsen
Miracle A/S

[Geert Bellekens]

You can find it in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sparx Systems\EA400\EA\Recent File List

I suppose your predecessor did something to the installation to make sure the recent list included your production and test project.
Normally this list would only contain EAExample for a new installation.

Geert

[Dines Madsen]

Excellent, thank you Geert!

[Guillaume]

Hello,
I noticed a different behaviour on my PC with EA 16.1: the list of recent projects is maintained in \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Sparx Systems\EA64\EA\RecentFiles with a REG_BINARY key "ModelHistory". It's not as easy to set up as it contains hex values.
The only solution I found is to prepopulate a list in EA and export the Reg tree.

[Z]

Hello,
I noticed a different behaviour on my PC with EA 16.1: the list of recent projects is maintained in \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Sparx Systems\EA64\EA\RecentFiles with a REG_BINARY key "ModelHistory". It's not as easy to set up as it contains hex values.
The only solution I found is to prepopulate a list in EA and export the Reg tree.

I would gladly pay to know a better way then overwriting this value indeed.
Has anyone had better luck/found another way?

Case: I want my EA lite users to be able to connect to my (cloud) connection without manual interventions, it's already a massive win they actually have the application and are interested in opening it I'm afraid :-)

[Geert Bellekens]

Save your project as a shortcut file, and supply that.

The shortcut files seems to be one of the most underused features of EA.
It's so simple and useful, yet 9 out of 10 EA users never heard of it (and think of very complex workarounds to achieve the same)

Geert

[Z]

I truly hope you know how much you mean to the community.
I for one would sell you inhouse every day :-)
Simplicity and knowing when to press which button, THX Geert, lifesaver as always.