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Agecoat

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Tagged value sets: blessing or curse?
« on: September 29, 2010, 12:52:14 am »
Folks,

Not sure what the answer to this question is right now. Painted myself in a corner I think.

Created a <<profile>> package with a number of stereotypes extending metaclasses like class, attribute and association.

Each stereotype holding a set of attributes that will result in predefined tagged values for stereotyped elements.

Created several 100th of stereotyped elements with predefined tagged value set.

Findings:

Tagged value cannot be renamed in set and reapplied to existing stereotyped elements; no knowledge of previous situation results in new tagged value next to the old one.

Tagged value cannot be retyped (for instance to <memo*>) in a set and reapplied on exiting stereotyped elements; the type of existing tagged values remains unchanged.

No individual type setting possible, the user interface does not provide means for it.

You can reapply stereotype on existing individual stereotyped elements but you will loose all values.

How does one reapply the stereotype on an association?

The tagged value set does not maintain predefined order of appearance as specified in the metaclass extending stereotype. Alterations to the order of appearance cannot be applied to existing stereotyped elements.

Question:

Do I want too much here? Need to revert to modifying EAP-tables by hand? Overlooked something in the User Interface?

Regards,
Agecoat.
 

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Re: Tagged value sets: blessing or curse?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2010, 05:18:04 am »
Most of the above needs to be done by either SQL or Add-in. I'd say that's the price for EA's low price.

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