Heather Wallace

[Heather Wallace]

Cheers,

In the meantime I’ll try doing the whole document in draft mode to see if there are any issues (there are no explicit cross references, but I remember from early experiences that there can be an impact on table formats).

Heather

[Heather Wallace]

For your information, I did a rerun on the new computer and paid closer attention to the time splits. The major increase in time relates to the “generate cross-references” part of the process.

Heather

[Heather Wallace]

That’s what I did. I installed each version in turn using our currently spare license on my home computer, where I have admin rights. Shortly that license will be used on another computer in the office, again with admin rights (I’ve uninstalled it at home). Do you want me to rerun the tests?

Heather

[Heather Wallace]

I’m not sure if this helps but..

I have a table style set up in Word that repeats headers and applies some standard formatting. I don’t use it eaDocX (for some reason that fades in my distant memory) but I do use a specific style for the table header text and a separate style for the table content.

After generation, I select all instances of my table header style and apply my custom table style in one efficient update.

I haven’t yet tried this for matrices – in the earlier versions of Word the custom table style couldn’t differentiate the first column with a different colour, put perhaps the later versions are more flexible?

Best regards,
Heather

[Heather Wallace]

This is almost perfect for what we need 🙂 (I couldn’t find it in the on-line help). I love the fact that the underlining remains even if I subsequently change the style or delete the glossary entries. It would be nice to have the option of the “highlighting” at every occurrence or the first occurrence, as some people may dip into our documents to look at only the sections of interest to them.

There is one issue that makes it difficult to work with but I suspect it is an EA issue rather than an eaDocX issue. When we include short acronyms e.g. “IT”, the engine picks up the lower case version and underlines “it”, suggesting a completely innappropriate interpretation. If only EA could give us a separate (case sensitive) mechanism for handling acronyms!

Cheers,

Heather

[Heather Wallace]

I’ve just had an administrator try later and earlier versions of eaDocX. Neither fixes the problem, so we’re guessing its an issue with my EA installation.

Thanks

Heather

[Heather Wallace]

Any thoughts on this one? Did it get missed?

Heather

[Heather Wallace]

I also find this a problem. It uses the setting for doucment generation, but if I go back into the report to change one small setting, a lot of settings have reverted to default and have to be manually reset.
Heather

[Heather Wallace]

Taking your answers in order.

1. Great. Will confirm when I have access to 3.4.
2. Shame. If we have to live with one problem we will.
3. Compact Document is already false. I have tried setting the “no relationship present” option to None, but this does not insert None under the relationship element headings. Also, we try to avoid this because it can place None where it is not wanted (where there is a relationship elemet with no heading, which is a method we use for tables of issues).
4. It is a table of simple relationship attributes.

[Heather Wallace]

I missed this answer somewhere along the way. More positive than I expected.

Where in Wales, and does that mean Ian’s moved, or just delegated??

Heather

[Heather Wallace]

I’m not sure how relevant this is to your problem, but we had a lot of trouble with sort order, when things are drawn from different packages. Now we have a workaround of manually setting on the objects at database level the TPos values that EA uses for its “natural” sort order. This works because we have a logical order of packages and a logical order of things within them, so if a package is the 7th package in logical order, we set its TPos to 7 and its first item TPos to 71. It’s working so far, you just need the package contents to stabilise before doing the fix.

[Heather Wallace]

A suggestion from Cardiff (easiest if you have EA10 with floating windows):

If you have a diagram where the order of output is really important, make a blank copy and then copy and paste (as link) the contents from the orginal version into the new diagram in the order you want them output. EA remembers the position of each item as it pastes, and automatically adds the links, so it is not as big an effort as it might sound. You can tell if you have a suitable order by viewing the tracability window for the whole diagram.

HTH
Heather

[Heather Wallace]

Cheers, it was my intention to tackle this via MS Access (no time to pursue this further yet). I presume this is just a work around to generate an Excel table to include as a separate section?

Heather

[Heather Wallace]

I’m also very interested in this. EA treats the ports as embedded objects. It would be great to be able to select an “embedded” relationship in eaDocX. I have some limited success navigating via the parent-child relationship (which may help Doug) which I seem to recall works better in the normal direction than the reverse. I also need to navigate from ports to their owning nodes, as the ports act as connection points for the nodes.

Even as a BA, there’s lots of fun to be had exploring deployment diagrams!

Heather
(Currently on leave for exam prep, but couldn’t resist)

[Heather Wallace]

I’m also having problems with empty lines. Many of my elements include tables of related requirements. There are two or three tables each relating to a different requirement relationship and the tables are generated using the Related Elements function, so that I only have to define a small set of requirements tables that can be reused in different contexts. I get an extra line between the end of teach table and the next table (related elements) heading, and have to remove these from the document after generation.

If I define the table as relationship attributes instead, the extra line does not appear, but if I want to make a small change to the table I have to do it in several places.

Although I can see the benefit of the extra line in many cases, it would be great to have the option to suppress it.

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