Hi

What you seek is not yet possible.

When we looked at including the ability to add attributes/operations to classes the concern we had was that class names were not necessarily unique and there was a risk that of them being assigned to the wrong class. OK – a low risk but then trying to be cautious here, so our decision was to ensure we had a reference point and hence the need to use an initial export of an attribute from the relevant classes.

We are currently looking at a range of additions to eaXL including the ability to imported attributes/operations etc which would not require the initial export. The challenge for us is to select the most representative use cases. In your case, you state that you have the element ID as well as the name and that would work fine, for others this may not be the case.

We are consolidating feedback and hope to come up with a workable solution(s) for all.

Adrian
eaDocX support