Can I import values of custom attributes from CSV?

[Adrian Cook]

Hi folks,

We're planning to use EA on our project and we need to load some requirements and other external data currently in spreadsheets into the tool so that we can trace model elements to them. I've played with the import from CSV functionality but the problem is that it doesn't seem to allow the import of any attributes that are not already attributes of the EA Element type.

I know that I can define custom attributes on an element as tagged values, but that's little good to us if I can't load values for these attributes from an external source (there are too many values to manually input via the GUI). Does anyone have any ideas?

Also, is there a way to export the tagged values on an element to a spreadsheet?

Thanks,
Adrian

[Geert Bellekens]

Adrian,

I would suggest you look at the excel importer I posted on the commity site a while ago.
The attribute "Length" is stored in a tagged value of an attribute.
It should be pretty straightforward to extend that to be able to import other tagged values.

Geert

[Adrian Cook]

Hi,

Thanks for the link to your Excel macro - it shows me how to do what I need to do. Now I just need to write a little VBA code!

Adrian