Mass change of Activities to Actions

[gregf]

I've created several activity diagrams using only Activity nodes. I'd like to redo these diagrams with activities as actions, so I can leverage Activties, Subactivities, and Actions.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

Greg

[mikewhit]

leverage is a noun ... please ?!
;-)

[Graham_Moir]

Yes, "leverage" is a noun, heavily used in Financial Services.

I too would be interested in doing this, but it seems the "Change type" option on the element advanced menu is only available when you have a single element selected.    May be this is an enhancement request.

Following more general thread probably also applies

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1131225620

[gregf]

Main Entry: leverage
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -aged; -ag·ing
: to provide (as a corporation) or supplement (as money) with leverage; also : to enhance as if by supplying with financial leverage

Ok, my usage is poor, but it is a verb...

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[thomaskilian]

Mike 's not that bad. But probably he has a 2nd job as English teacher  

[Graham_Moir]

It's both a verb and noun.  As a noun in Financial Services it is equivalent to "gearing".

[mikewhit]

No, I just hate its usage as a verb.

It presumably comes from 'leveraged buyout' where the value of shares in the purchased company is used to increase the value of the bid - or something like that.

The share values gives additional 'leverage' to themselves. That's fine.

But I increasingly notice it lazily used as a verb to just to mean "apply" or "use", without any concept of obtaining additional 'leverage' (improving a performance ratio by its own effort), and hence dislike it being used this way, since it properly refers to the property possessed by a lever.

Also on my hit list: "prepend" - what's wrong with the real word "prefix" ?

Have a good weekend, modellers !

[gregf]

I leveraged my database skills to find a solution to this problem.

=)

1. Rename yourprojectname.EAP to yourprojectname.MDB
2. Open access database file with MS access
3. Open the t_object table
4. Update t_object set object_type = 'Action' where object_type = 'Activity'

While I DO NOT guarantee it's safety, this hack worked perfectly for me with no side effects, changing everything from an activity to an action. I presume you could hack this table to mass-change any object type.

I'm such a 733t h4xOrZ.

Yours in leverage,

-Greg

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hi,

just a note: you do not even need to rename the .EAP file to .MDB, .EAP files open in MS Access perfectly fine.

What, pray tell, is "733t h4xOrZ"? :-)

Bruno

I leveraged my database skills to find a solution to this problem.

=)

1. Rename yourprojectname.EAP to yourprojectname.MDB
2. Open access database file with MS access
3. Open the t_object table
4. Update t_object set object_type = 'Action' where object_type = 'Activity'

While I DO NOT guarantee it's safety, this hack worked perfectly for me with no side effects, changing everything from an activity to an action. I presume you could hack this table to mass-change any object type.

I'm such a 733t h4xOrZ.

Yours in leverage,

-Greg

[Eve]

What, pray tell, is "733t h4xOrZ"? :-)

I've never been able to read or write Leet, but I think a rough translation would be 'elite hacker'.  Mind you do correct me if I'm wrong.

[mikewhit]

No, a h4x0r is a small fine-bladed tool for cutting metal, wood or plastic items.

733t just means it isn't heavy.

[thomaskilian]

Google shows this   and many more results. What a small world!

[mikewhit]

The item referenced by Thomas refers to people who are "lame".

No doubt this result from overuse of the "pedofile" tool referenced in the item, which must presumably be a rough-surfaced implement for abrading parts of the foot.

[skiwi]

I just encountered this, wanting to change a number of artifacts to classes.

On my diagram I can select multiple artefacts (yay).
The Element > Advanced > Change Type   lets me select "Class" and then OK,
but .... (hush of anticipation)
only one of the selected objects actually changes
(sighs of disappointment)

not in EA 11

[qwerty]

I better not update my time to fix statistics since this would add 9 years for a (still not) fixed bug.

q.