Creating Custom Documents in Enterprise Architect 16

Open Word inside EA and it's easy to make your EA documents match your requirements exactly.

eaDocX opens Word inside EA

So making your documents fit your organization is simple, with standard Word features:

• add a cover page
• add headers and footers
• add blank pages or page breaks
• choose heading and numbering styles
• change table styles
• add change marking
• insert Word Quick parts like document properties, fields and signatures
• … and make navigating your document simple with tables of contents, figures and tables

Here’s how.

#1 Start with a Quick Document

From any package or diagram in the EA project browser, select Specialize > eaDocX > Quick document, and eaDocX will open a Word document in an EA window in a moment! The document will be based on your Word ‘normal’ template and will contain:

• Document information
• The content of your package/diagram – formatted as text or in tables
• Hyperlinks between related elements automatically inserted
• A tailored glossary of just the terms found in your document (included by default if you have populated the EA glossary)
  • NB if a glossary is included, then eaDocX prints a hyperlink to the glossary at the first occurrence for each term found.

#2 Open a new Word document

In the top EA Specialize menu, choose eaDocX > New Word Document – then select from your saved Word templates, including all your standard Word contents and formatting ready to go.

An empty Word document will open inside EA – ready for you to add whatever model content you want. And it will automatically be formatted according to the saved Word Template that you have chosen.

#3 Open an existing Word document

In the top EA Specialize menu, choose eaDocX > Open Word Document. This opens a browser so you can choose to open any Word document. Not only those you’ve previously created in eaDocX, but ANY Word document from ANY location.

To add your EA data, just place the cursor in the document where you want the EA data to go, then use the eaDocX Insert menu to choose the content to add.

Once you have included some EA content in this way, when the document is saved it have an eaDocX profile, that so you can update that section directly from EA in just the same way as any other eaDocX document.

#4 Use an Auto Template

Create an eaDocX document based on a package or diagram, with all the content and formatting you need and then use that template to print other EA packages. All the profile information for every element and connector type, all the fields and Tagged values, and even the conditional formatting rules. The fastest way to create standard document sets.

Use a previously saved Auto Template, from a package or diagram in the EA project browser, select Specialize / eaDocX / Document using Auto Template 

See the Auto-templates example for more information.

NB you can change the default Word templates eaDocX uses for Quick Documents and for Auto Templates, in the Settings menu.