How work the element status filter?

[bEAr]

Hello

The filter "With element status" in the dialog "Generate RTF Dokumentation"->"Generate Options" works not like i expected.

I have 12 activity elements in my diagram. 9 have tatus "proposed" and 3 have status "implemented".

If i use this filter with:

[like] : Proposed  -> i get 9 of 9 activity with status proposed

but

[like] : Implemented -> i get 0 of 3 activity with status Implemented

I tried diffent statustyps, but only status Proposed works.

Any Idea?

bEAr

[mark.myers]

I am trying to use this too and it just doesn't seem to work.
I have used Proposed and that didnot work for me (2 of 3 of my elements have a status of Proposed)

Anyone been able to use this filter?

[«Midnight»]

Just a guess...

How did you set the status of each element? If you did not have EA set it somehow, perhaps you don't have an exact match for status name - case sensitivity, etc.

[mark.myers]

Good guess, David, but I'd thought of that.  I set the status in the property dialog and then copied and pasted the text of the status.  I also tried variants such as P*, P% etc.  Also using a filter of "not like" also returns nothing.

This is my thought on what is happening;  The elements I am attempting to filter are Actors and I suspect that filtering only works on certain types of elements.  I will try it with basic classes and see what happens.

....

Yes.  If I add a basic class to the package it gets filtered correctly.  So some types of elements (eg Actors) are filtered out regardless of what the status is.

[mark.myers]

BTW, I just tested this in Build 810 and it has been fixed, ie the filtering works as expected.

[«Midnight»]

With luck it was just a temporary bobo I guess. Still, if you need the feature now, and cannot take the risks of a beta, the only solution may be to 'downgrade' a few builds. Far from graceful, but it might work for a presentation or two.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Folks,

Don't forget you can run both versions of EA on the same machine.  You could use 810 to output; but only do your work on the production version.

Just a thought...

Paolo

[mark.myers]

Thanks, Paolo.  I was aware of that and will be doing something similar.  I have installed 810 on a virtual machine (on the same physical machine) so I didn't have to do the uninstall step.  My project is also configured for version control (subversion) so it might have actually been less hastle to do the copy/uninstall/install process...ah, well...
I will use 810 for generating RTF docs.
Thanks guys.