Project Name in RTF Export

[ebeb]

Hi, I'm currently evaluating the trial version for our company. On importatnt thing is the document export. I'm trying to get one of the most basic things necessary for documentation: The Project name. I can't figure out how to insert the project name into a rtf template. The I renamed the model to the name of project, but I also could not insert the model name.

Any suggestion how to do that?

Anyway, I'm having a hard time trying to use out companies tamplate and add EA tags. I keeps distroying my formatting/style applied to the text.
Is there any whitepaper that explaines everything that can be done and maybe an overview about all categories and tags that are available?

Thanks,

Jan

[Oliver F.]

This question pops up ever once in a while. In build 846 there is a new feature to let you insert custom project related fields but I have not played around with those. Please try and share your experience, this is encouraged.

For a whitepaper see this one: http://www.sparxsystems.com/downloads/whitepapers/Working_with_the_RTF_generator.pdf

Oliver

[ebeb]

Thanks for your reply!

I read this before when I was searching the forum. But how exactly can I use this new feature? I don't know where I can set these custom fields and how to include it within the template!

Thanks,

Jan

[Oliver F.]

Thanks for your reply!

I read this before when I was searching the forum. But how exactly can I use this new feature? I don't know where I can set these custom fields and how to include it within the template!

In the template editor under document options and in the document generation dialog there is a tab labelled "Project Constants" where you can fill out those custom tags.
Those can be imported and exported so exchanging them is possible.

However I have no best practises available on how to use those. This is a new feature.

Oliver

[ebeb]

Thanks!

Ok, in the generation dialog, I found the tab and entered the Project name. But in the document options in the editor I couldn't find it. And I do have build 846.

[ebeb]

Ok,

I can answer this by myself:

As Oliver described,
- go to the RTF export dialog
- search for the Project Constants tab
- Add your stuff, e.g. ProjectName = "MyLittleProject"
- Then edit the template you want use
- Right click where you want to insert the Constant
- Click "Project Constants" and choose your key

EA will insert a new tag, in my example {ProjectName}.

I tested it and it works!


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I still don't know, why the NAME OF THE PROJECT is not part of the models properties. This is so essential...