Package contents included with diagram contents

[Richard De Vriese]

I need to extract the contents of an EA diagram that contains package elements, but do not want to extract the contents of those packages; just the attributes associated with the packages such as notes and tagged values. However, when I generate the document the package contents are also being included in the document. I’ve read through the various help files, but cannot figure out how to accomplish this. Any help would be very welcome.

[eadocX Support]

You are quite correct that it’s not possible to NOT print the content of a Package with eaDocX. Early versions let you do this, but we had so many inquiries about ‘why don’t my Packages print properly’, and no requests to miss-out the contents, that we decided to make it mandatory.

So Packages always print their contents.

There are some ways to get around this, however:
1. Don’t create Profiles for the contents of the Package, and nothing will print
2. Create a stereotype for the packages which you would like to print in this way, then create a Script which prints packages with that stereotype in the way you need

‘hope this helps

[Richard De Vriese]

Thanks for the confirmation that this feature is not supported. Suggestion 1, don’t create profiles for contents of packages, is not feasible because the package contents needs to be printed in other sections of the document. Suggestion 2, although feasible, is not desirable because of long term maintenance issues, e.g., the script will need to be maintained. More preferable would be to either have a context menu selection in the preview pane for diagrams that controls whether or not the contents of packages get printed, or be able to define a profile that can be attached to a stereotyped diagram that controls whether or not the contents of packages in the diagram gets printed.

Please consider this as a feature request. It would be quite alright if the feature was disabled by default, e.g. the current behavior is the default.

For now, can you provide a reference for creating a script to accomplish what I have outlined above, e.g. not print the contents of packages appearing in a diagram–just various attributes attached to the package?

[eadocX Support]

There are some example scripts on the website.
See https://store.eadocx.com/web-downloads/scripts

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