Attributes not displayed in same order i WebEA as in Sparx

[miksko]

A colleague has chosen to display the attributes of an element in a manually specified the order. That works fine in Sparx but when WebEA displays the same diagram, the attributes come in alphabetical order. Is this a glitch in WebEA or do we have to manipulate the server configuration for WebEA?

[Nabil]

Hello... I think WebEA shows attributes in alphabetical order regardless of their position in Enterprise Architect.

If the display ordering is critical for stakeholders viewing the model, you can consider Prolaborate as it allows more granular adjustments to the properties - you can define how properties are grouped and displayed explicitly using configurable modeling language profiles. It is a small setup work up front, but it gives full control over what the stakeholders see.

Thanks

[Geert Bellekens]

How they show on a diagram is not specific for WebEA (or Prolaborate).
The diagram is shown as an image, and it generated by EA.

It could be that WebEA is still showing an old version of the diagram (with attributes in a different order).
You can test that by changing something else on the diagram, and saving it.
That should trigger the re-generation of the diagram image.

Geert

[miksko]

Hi Nabil and Geert,

Thanks for your suggestions, I've now tried them both.

• Actually the diagram generation demo in WebEA seems to sense when a diagram's options have been changed, cause the image is promptly updated when I turn on, respectively turn off, the Show Attributes.
• The order of the attributes are still in alphabetical order though, even when that isn't the case in Sparx, and it doesn't matter whether I check the diagram in WebEA or ProLab (we have both).

Then, at least, I know there's nothing much we can do about it.

Mikael