Ian Aitchison

[Ian Aitchison]

Thank you for the quick update – I have tested and it works as expected.

There is a scenario where this update does not work, but this can be worked around if you are aware of it:

When a new model element with a tag value (TV) of type ‘memo’ is created the TV.Value and TV.Notes fields are both empty.

EA only adds the ‘‘ to TV.Value once the field has been manually accessed and saved (even if no text is added to the TV.Notes).

If the new model element is created and exported by EADOCX, new values are added to the memo TV and then imported back to the model the text will inserted into the TV.Value – this text will then be lost if you manually access the TV in EA.

The fix for this is to populate the TV.Value with the ‘‘ text before exporting by EADOCX – I do not think there is anything EADOCX can do about this as there is no method to know which TV is supposed to be a memo type until this has been done by EA.

[Ian Aitchison]

Could you not interrogate the ‘value’ field and if it contains put the text into the notes field? The current solution is actually overwriting fields it should not – and looking in our database now we have a significant issue to put it right again, as every requirement TV has the ‘notes’ field duplicated into the ‘value’ field. (there are several thousand of these!)

[Ian Aitchison]

Hi,

I seem to be having exactly the same issue that was raised by Phil.

I can export a TV of type using eadocx xl, but when I try to pull the TV back in to the model it will not import the text into the memo field (it remains unchanged)

However, as the screen shot attached shows the ‘text’ field in the EA diagram shows the updated text, but this is not present in the ‘Tagged value note’. If you then ‘OK’ the ‘Tagged value note’ the model is updated and the updated text is removed.

Please could you advise?

Thank you

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Ian Aitchison. Reason: add screen shot of issue

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