Automatically change 'Status' to "proposed' on change

[amacara1]

Please, is there a way to have EA automatically change 'Status' field of an element to 'Proposed' whenever that element is modified?
By modified I mean a change in its content took place: notes, attributes, links, etc, but not added/deleted to/from diagrams.

[Geert Bellekens]

Yes, but you'll need to write some add-in that runs in the EA_OnContextItemModified

Options are:
- Use a Model Addin: https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/16.1/add-ins___scripting/modeladdins.html
- Write an EA-Matic script: https://bellekens.com/ea-matic/
- Write a full blown add-in

I would use an EA-Matic script (but I guess I'm a bit biased)

Geert

[amacara1]

Thank you Geert, I understand.
So there seems to be no "out-of-the-box" solution from EA (I thought it would be, as I see this as sort of element life-time managing part)

[philchudley]

That's correct there is no "out-of-the-box" solution.

To supplement what Geert as an alternative to an add-in which requires an installer you could have a look at Model Add-ins.

I have successfully used these to respond to EA_OnContextItemModified to monitor / update element properties.

Phil

[Geert Bellekens]

That's correct there is no "out-of-the-box" solution.

To supplement what Geert as an alternative to an add-in which requires an installer you could have a look at Model Add-ins.

I have successfully used these to respond to EA_OnContextItemModified to monitor / update element properties.

Phil

Hi Phil,

Model-addins was actually my first suggestion

Geert