Sorry for the “laundry list”, but I feel it is a good way to dump a lot of comments and questions. Also, like to apologize for the terse descriptions at times. Thanks in advance for your help and comments. Build 600
1. Maybe EA supports this and I don’t’ know how to do it. I’ve been trying to automatic translating to and from sequence diagrams to Collaboration Diagrams.
2. We use the Rational business use case icons and business use case realizations icons, is there a way to utilize them. Seems like stereotype bitmaps and/or a profile might work but I’ve had little luck.
3. Multiple instances on the same diagram are almost a showstopper? We try to diagram extensively and produce “trace” diagrams showing the relationships between requirements, analysis, design, and deployment elements. This is almost impossible to verify or manage with the single instance limitation. Our current work around is lots of diagrams. This won’t fly long term.
4. Yes I know it’s Rationale’s problem but Import/export to Rose is critical for use with many of the people I know. Yes it imports if you can call it that. Basically, the diagrams need to be a responsible representation of the diagram in EA. No editing in Rose is needed.
5. Project data seems to be associated with the whole model, shouldn't it be the Root Nodes? I get multiple projects in the same model. Is this a bad idea?.
6. Improved control over what is visible on the diagram for each element. For example show stereotypes, public members only for class ABC something different for class DEF. It seems when you use anything but a class many of the visibility options don’t seem to work. Any idea what I’m doing wrong.
7. This is related to number 6. Show Package content is a little misleading. It would be nice if you could select specifically which elements from the package are visible on a specific diagram.
8. The only way I’ve found to relocate an object is to move it in the tree. If there are a large number of objects this can be an extremely painful effort. Also, Copy to Location causes the diagram element to move down and to the left. Other than using the tree control in the workspace it would be nice if you could just relocate a diagram element to the location of the diagram with a right mouse button menu.
Answered 9. I can’t seem to attach Note links to anything, i.e. an association. It seems like note links should be able to be attached to whatever and however many. Or am I just missing something?
10. Need to be able to create additional glossary categories. As well as associated different definitions to the same glossary element. This would be similar to a dictionary entry with multiple definitions.
11. Spell check was not picking up labels on associations (class that references itself).
Answered 12. Moving association instead of delete and add them. I think I’m doing something wrong but I did not get anything out of the help (it’s probably there).
13. Tab order in various dialogs containing "tab controls" never changes focus to the "tab control", must use mouse to navigate tabs.
14. Requirement name are limited to 12 characters, seems a bit small. I hate abbr. and ACRMS.
15. Can’t delete root nodes or just certain ones, not sure which ones or why. Any thoughts?
16. “New element” menu chose does not work correctly on all nodes on the workspace tree nodes. Also clueless as to what the rules are, or should there even be any rules.
17. When importing and exporting I would like to stipulate which sub packages to include or not to include. This is similar to Rational Rose. That’s not why I think it’s a good idea. Generally I like to organize my projects (usually 5 – 10 active projects at a time) in tightly coupled packages that are easily reused. The sub or child packages may or may not be required to reuse the parent package.
18. Exporting all reference data causes an error when importing. Not sure what went wrong here.
Answered 19. Diagram elements like notes are on a tool bar, which is nice since they can be used anywhere but drop and drag for positioning would be even be nicer.
20. It would be nice to be able to attach files to diagram, or any thing else for that matter, Some external documents describe the diagram, not just the elements. The notes are ok but a word document would be much better.
21. Embedding the editor of my choosing in various dialogs would be great. I know this is not trivial but it would be really-really nice. This way I can use Word or a programming editor.
22. It would be nice to be able to open a linked file from the dialog box.
23. Defaults in dialog boxes. I would like to set up defaults for the combo boxes (and other controls), for all the dialog boxes within the system.
24. Looks like a minor oversight but there is no Browse option for setting up the default project directory.
25. Requirements, issues, changes, and defects. This could turn into it’s own project but I have listed a few concerns. Reporting is missing is some cases. If you use the object representation for the artifact (ex. issue) it does not show up in the issue list.
Thank you again
