How to copy the referenced content together with the copy function

[Fantasy.Fan]

How to copy the reference relationship content of copied content from the current Enterprise Architect file to another Enterprise Architect file together

[Geert Bellekens]

What exactly do you mean? Can you explain in a bit more detail?

Geert

[Fantasy.Fan]

When using the replication feature in Enterprise Architect to copy a folder that contains, for example, an architecture diagram and its referenced content, how can you ensure that the referenced content is also copied along with the diagram to another folder?

[Geert Bellekens]

You can't. If you copy a package, only the content of the package is copied, not the contents of other packages, regardless whether or not they are used on a diagram.

You can pretty easily duplicate everything that is on a diagram by Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Shift-V

Geert

[Fantasy.Fan]

Thank you very much for your answer. I have another question to ask you. Why does the size of the merged file become larger than the original sizes of the two files after copying the contents of one Enterprise Architect to another one? Do you have any solutions for this?

[Geert Bellekens]

EA files are actually databases.
They generally grow to provide space in the tables to add new rows, but in most cases they don't really shrink if you delete rows.

I wouldn't worry about the file size at all.
If you are using .eap(x) there is a function to shrink the database. I'm not sure if .feap or .qea have something similar.

Geert

[Fantasy.Fan]

Thank you. When using Lemon Tree to compare and merge files, if the file size exceeds about 1GB, the comparison will fail. Do you have a better solution for this?

[Geert Bellekens]

To get the smalles filesize possible you could create a new file, and then to a project transfer to it.

Geert

[Fantasy.Fan]

Regarding the issue of copying references in Enterprise Architect, do you have any other solutions?

[Geert Bellekens]

Regarding the issue of copying references in Enterprise Architect, do you have any other solutions?

Depends on what you need exactly.
If you want to duplicate a package, plus every external element shown on one of the diagrams in that package. Then I guess you are better off writing a little script.

Geert

[Fantasy.Fan]

Are you referring to developing a program yourself to perform this operation?

[Geert Bellekens]

Are you referring to developing a program yourself to perform this operation?

A "program" is maybe a bit much, but you can write your own scripts in EA; much like the way you can automate stuff in Excel using VBA.

You seem to have a very specific requirement that can't be done in a simple way using the standard features.
Shouldn't be too complicated to do it using a script though.

Geert

[Fantasy.Fan]

Thank you very much.

[Fantasy.Fan]

Could you please help me provide a solution approach? I don't have any experience in this area.

[Geert Bellekens]

Could you please help me provide a solution approach? I don't have any experience in this area.

I can only point to my scripting library for inspiration: https://github.com/GeertBellekens/Enterprise-Architect-VBScript-Library
If you don't have scripting experience you might want to consider hiring expert help.

Geert