Glossary in EA is not being generated

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2 June 2016 at 1:17 pm #8579

Colin Wood
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I am getting: No element of type: Project Glossary in this repository.

This came up in a previous topic but the user says it miraculously went away.

I have a glossary in EA and the eadocx profile has ‘term’ in it (see attachment)and I have defined a section for it in the document and Preview.

I have tried several times to generate.

2 June 2016 at 2:12 pm #8580

eadocX Support
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eaDocX version ?

2 June 2016 at 2:20 pm #8581

Colin Wood
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Full Version 3.7.0.0

Using EA version 12.0.1215

2 June 2016 at 2:33 pm #8582

eadocX Support
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please can you install latest version – currently 3.8.4.3

2 June 2016 at 3:30 pm #8583

Colin Wood
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Ok we are in a corporate environment with an IT org so this may take some time, but if this is the only way to move forward then so be it!

3 June 2016 at 7:52 am #8584

eadocX Support
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‘fraid so.
As you may be aware, we only do fixes on the current version.

6 June 2016 at 10:27 am #8585

Colin Wood
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OK Now have latest version installed and have tested this problem again. I created a new EA project and added a simple glossary with 3 terms. Then opened a new word doc in eaDocX, created a glossary section and hit generate.

Same error as before: “No element of type: Project Glossary in this repository”. I can confirm that eaDocX picks up in the profile that there is a Term element in EA.

6 June 2016 at 10:39 am #8586

eadocX Support
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Can you confirm the exact step you too to create this error?
I can see where the error is produced in he code, but can’t figure out how you would get there!
I’ve just tested the basic function, and that’s OK:
– create a quick document of some bit of the model
– add a glossary to the document (EA Glossary was empty at this point)
– eaDocX doesn’t print anything – correct
– added some glossary items to EA, where those items are present in the generated document
– eaDocX created a glossary, showing only the terms present in the document – correct

6 June 2016 at 11:27 am #8587

Colin Wood
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Aahh! Just noticed that eaDocX is clever – only includes terms that are actually in the document, so as soon as I include term ‘PIG’ in the Word doc eadocx correctly outputs the glossary for that term!

6 June 2016 at 12:58 pm #8588

eadocX Support
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eaDocX is, indeed, clever 🙂
No more 50-page glossaries….

6 June 2016 at 1:48 pm #8589

Colin Wood
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But I would make this feature very clear in the help pages to avoid people like me bothering you guys.

Also the error message “No element of type: Project Glossary in this repository” is being triggered by another error in my case i.e. there are no matching terms in the document and the repository. If this error were caught then you could put out a more accurate error message that would immediately guide the user to make the necessary correction.
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