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eaTeamWorks 1.3
Highlights
eaSheets
Major improvements to the performance of eaSheets, especially when using remote or cloud databases. It seems like the EA API is VERY slow in this configuration, so eaTeamWorks now using SQL to fetch larger sets of data in a single call.
For this reason we are making a beta available, so you can check the performance in your environment. Note that if you use EA with a local repository (QEA/QEAX/EAP/EAPX) then the performance will be very similar.
Also some fixes in eaSheets, for example, when displaying Smart Sheets, and when showing BPMN data – fewer default-value tagged values are shown when showing lists of Activities.
Other new features:
- You can now open a Smart Sheet to show the contents of a diagram. But beware: if you try to view the contents of a big diagram, with all the tagged values and connection of all the elements, the sheet will be quite large. And may take some time to create.
- Features to edit attributes and methods of classes has been put back in.
Other changes and improvements
| Version | Change | Notes |
v 1.3.1 |
When create a Quick Document in eaDocX from a diagram, by default eaDocX will ignore tagged values which have trivial or default values. This is the same as in eaSheets Smart Sheets, and for Model Expert when creating snapshot meta-models. | Means that your initial document will not contain lots of useless defaults, especially useful in modeling languages which have lots of tagged values, such as BPMN. You can add back these tagged values by including them in the profile, in the normal way. |
| eaDocX and eaSheets now support NoteLink connectors, and the ‘Note’ element type. | Using notes on a diagram to help readers understand the diagram is great. Using EA Note elements for storing real model data is probably not a good idea. (personal view of the author) | |
v 1.3.2 |
in eaDocX, put back the function to allow specified element types/stereotypes to print (as tables) always on a landscape page | So wherever in your document elements of this type are printed, the will always be on a landscape page. Useful when there are lots of columns in a table |
| Added back the eaDocX function to use a set of preset column widths when printing in tables | These values are set in the document settings. Changing them does not change all the widths in existing documents. | |
v 1.3.2.1 |
Minor change to the eaDocX UI – there are two ‘close’ buttons in the Profile UI. | Fixed. |
v 1.3.2.2 |
Some incompatibility when generating older versions of eaDocX documents using the new eaDocX. Especially when printing tagged values of attributes, and tagged values of connectors in relationships tables. | Fixed ? |
v 1.3.5 |
New function added to both eaDocX and eaSheets to supported a second translation language for name, alias and notes fields. All fields can be updated using eaSheets, and printed in documents with eaDocX | So you can use 3 languages: the native language of the model, and two more.
The Belgian Solution. |
v 1.3.5.1 |
Small fix to allow more data to be shown in Document Information sections in eaDocX | |
v 1.3.5.2 |
Fixed issues with printing of Objects (elements with classifiers) in eaDocX. | |
v 1.3.5.4 |
Fixed several backwards-compatibility issues with eaDocX, such as printing of tagged values of stereotyped packages, tagged values of connectors, sorting on tagged values in relationship tables. | |
| Added support into eaDocX and eaSheets to allow for a ‘parent’ relationship to be used when defining relationships, and multi-hop relationships. | Help article is in-progress | |
v 1.3.6.0 |
Model expert improvements to allow for Derived Connectors to use parent and child relationships, as well as regular connections. | |
| Fix to eaSheets to allow ‘Compare’ to work when data has been loaded from an Excel sheet | ||
| eaSheets improvement to Compare cells which have data about related elements. | ||
v 1.3.6.4 |
Added new properties for SysML Ports and Parts. See help. | |
v 1.3.7 |
Big improvement to saving of Model Expert snap-shot models. This can be very slow, even with local models, and very, very slow when using remove models | Exports all the new snapshot data to a XMI file, then imports this back into EA.
Note: requires that the user has permissions to import an XMI into the model. |
| Several fixes to Model Expert, such as restoring the function to create a digram from a connector in a snapshot. | ||
| There is still an issue in eaSheets when saving large numbers of new elements (>20) where it just stops. This is an error in EA somewhere, but we can’t find it. So just re-try the import, and it may work. | ||
| Also a strange new feature to allow you to edit the background color of an element using eaSheets. Jut find ‘Back color’ as a field in the ‘Advanced’ fields list, and choose the color you want. Remember this will set the color of the elements in ALL the diagrams it allears in, and will override the color as set by any MDG, so use carefully. (customer request) | ||
| 1.3.7.1 | Minor change for backwards compatibility when printing tagged values of stereotyped packages.
Also correctly create Profiles for stereotyped packages, wher they have tagged values. |
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| 1.3.7.3 | In eaDocX, fixes to the printing of multi-hop relationship tables involving parents and children. | |
| 1.3.7.4 | Lots of new fields added to the printing of UML and SysML Action elements. these can now appear in eaDocX documents, and be viewed (but mostly not edited) in eaSheets. Also fix to eaDocX when it showed duplicate packages where the packages had no child elements (Preview and generated documents) |
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| 1.3.7.5 | Removed the ‘File’ menu from the profile editor form. It didn’t do anything anyway, and made thinks look untidy. | |
| 1.3.7.6 | Fixed intermittent problem with eaDocX not correct sequencing packages and elements. |