Marc Lampron

[Marc Lampron]

Ok thank you. I will try eaTeamWorks.

BTW, there is something weird on your web site about the user authentification. Me and my colleagues are having very often a message from google something that I cannot be authenticated because my actions looks suspect ??!!?? even though I use the proper userId and password !
Strange… strange. Have your site been hacked ?

[Marc Lampron]

Hi,
I have ModelExpert successfully installed on EA v15.2.
Now I have also installed EA v16.2 on the same machine.

How do I go about installing ModelExplert on EA v16.1 (release 1626) ?

Does the 32 bits ModelExpert works with EA v16 64 bit or does it only work with EA v16 32 bits ?

Thanks

[Marc Lampron]

Thank you for your reply.
In fact, in our organisation there are presently 5 full time business analysts and each have responsibility over 40ish business processes. So it’s not that difficult to manage, but the reason we want to have each business process in its own document is that, over time we need to have each Business process document versioned independently (by legal obligation). We only keep the current process definition in EA but we need to have one document per Business process.

The way I try to go about this, is to define a Word document (.DOCX) with the proper eaDocX profiles to generate a document for one particular business process. This is working fine.

Now, to make multiple instances of this document (1 for each of the business processes, I save the .DOCX as a .DOTX. From the .DOTX word template (that encapsulate all Word format/styles and eaDocX profiles), I can instantiate any number of identical documents as I need with a different business process name but all of them are still referring to the same Business process (when I do a full re-generate of the document with eaDocX).
The only piece missing is to make each document to refer to a different Business process in the Enterprise model. What I do is:

1. Open one instance of the eaDocC template (.DOCX file)
2. In the EA Package Browser I select a Package that contain the proper target process
3. With the contextual menu, I select Extension :: eaDocX :: Add to document
   … which leads to a sub-menu with the name of the eaDocX document
   … which contain another submenu that let me select the eaDocX section that I want to replace with a profile associate with the selected business process package
4. at this point, eaDocX ask me if I want to replace the existing profile
5. I confirm that I want to replace the existing profile
6. I repeat steps 2 to 5 for each section of the template that need to be reassign to a different Enterprise Architect source of content
7. Finally, I fully re-generate the document and at this point It seems to work …
   … but somehow the Word heading level gets increase by 1 level by the insertion of the
   first reassign section.

First question: Is that the recommended approach for what I want to do (reuse an eaDocX word template to maintain a family (collection) of documents of the same type? The eaDocX help documentation is not very clear about this type of usage.

Second question: what could cause the increase of heading level from the original document?

Thank you very much for your help and advices.

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