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[eadocX Support]

This is always a tricky one – not really an eaDocX question, more one for EA generally….
Two approaches supported by eaDocX

1. Use Word Compare
– make the change in the Use Case/Scenario
– optionally, make a note of the change in the Description field of the UC/Scenario, and make sure that gets printed in the generated document
– then use eaDocX Document Management to compare the old & new versions of the document, or use the Word Compare directly. This will show the absolute differences between the documents
– don’t forget, as you create the new version, to make a note of the change in the Document Version comments.

2. Use eaDocX Change Marking.
For changes to other elements (i.e. ones which have their own ‘last updated’ attribute in EA, you can use the other eaDocX feature, and switch-on Change Marking. This will highlight things which have changed, but won’t show the before/after of the change, just the element which has changed.

Overall, this is always going to be hard, as EA doesn’t keep details of changes, just the ‘how it is now’ of the model.

[eadocX Support]

Update:
I found the TV.notes idea in EA – strange. Never seen it before.
It won’t surprise you that eaDocX doesn’t support it: looks like a hard one to do, as we currently assume that when you specify an attribute to print (norma or TV) then we print the value of the attribute, and not the “notes”, which don’t exist for other non-TV attributes.
Sorry 🙂

[eadocX Support]

Not sure what you mean by tagged value ‘notes’? Do you mean the value of the TV, or something else?

[eadocX Support]

A couple of suggestions.
Have you tried adding eaDocX sections which are eaDocX “Element Reports”?
These are designed to do exactly what you describe: create lists or tables of elements from anywhere in the model.
They can be used either using eaDocX’s own search criteria, or use an EA Model Search (which is the mechanism you’re probably using to produce your model views).
In both cases, you can select e.g. a list of requirements, from anywhere in the model, where a TV has a specified value.
You can also format the report to print the results in whatever way you want.

I’m confident this will do what you want: I’ve just tried, and it works fine: took a couple of minutes.

Tip: I created my sample data by looking at a bunch of requirements in Excel (using the new eaXL feature in eaDocX Corporate Edition) and created and set the tagged values that way – MUCH faster than setting each one by hand. See the examples in the eaDocX Help under ‘Excel’.

[eadocX Support]

If someone can send me the Profile of the document when it’s in ‘Table’ form, then I can try to reproduce the problem.
Send to support@eadocx.com
Thanks

[eadocX Support]

eaDocX currently doesn’t support creating sections from Model views.
BUT
This has been requested before as a feature, and as soon as we can figure out where in the EA data model a ‘model view’ and its contents are saved, we’ll be adding it. But so far, we can’t find it!

[eadocX Support]

Strange. The error message, as you might guess, is the default ‘it’s broken, but we don’t know why’ message.
If you enable the Trace:
eaDocX | Options | eaDocX Settings, bottom option to enable trace.
Then repeat what you just did, and make a note of the last thing you did before the error came up, then send me the results.

[eadocX Support]

I’ve tried this, with 3.2.1.12, and can switch from Inline scenario list to a table of the scenarios. Seems to be OK. Which version are you using, and what exactly were you trying. Can you email your Profile to support@ ?

[eadocX Support]

Short answer – no.
I reaslise it’s something which EA supports, but I couldn’t imagine a situation where I’d need to attach TVs to connectors. So much for my imagination 🙂
I’ll put this high-up on the list of new features required for V3.3, which is the next release. We’re still in the Beta of 3.2, so sadly it won’t be any time soon. It needs some re-engineeringing of the UI, which means lots of changes to help & generator, as well as the user interface.

[eadocX Support]

Hi,
I saw your post about this on the EA forum, and it looks like EA hasn’t deleted the un-used alternates. We just print the list of alternates which we get back from EA. To do this, we have to parse some strange, undocumented bits of the EA database. So maybe if Sparx respond to the EA question, then I’ll see if an eaDocX fix is needed.

[eadocX Support]

🙁
Can you email a fragment of your model to support@eadocx.com, and I’ll have a look. I really thought I’d nailed this one…..

[eadocX Support]

Well spotted 🙂
A while ago, I added some code to make some document look a bit better when no sort order was defined, but I’d forgotten that the EA ‘Allow Free Sorting’ would negate this.

I think I’ve fixed your problem in 3.2.1.7, now available on the website.

Many thanks

[eadocX Support]

The column-width thing is a known ‘feature’.
When eaDocX inserts information into Word, it does so as HTML (which makes it much more efficient than adding it in bits & pieces).
Unfortunately, Word then tries to ‘help’, by messing-about with column widths. In the case of your long hyperlink, it does just what it would do if you typed a long string, with no spaces, into a narrow coumn – it expands the column.
We’ve tried to ‘fix’ the column widths, but Word knows better (!) and just overrides it when it thinks that’s what we really want.
Perhaps we should just accept that Word knows more about what we want than we do. 🙂

[eadocX Support]

You’re right!
Fix is now available in build 3.2.1.1, on the website
Thanks

[eadocX Support]

I agree with your work-around – thanks.

..But it’s still a bit of a fiddle…
So..
I think I may have fixed the problem properly, by choosing different parameters on the MS Word ‘find’: the fix is in v3.2 which is due out in Beta in the next few days.

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