Mark Elson

[Mark Elson]

ActivityParameters seem to be treated as Objects despite being able to have separate profiles. If I delete the profile for ActivityParameters, they still appear until I delete the profile for Objects.

[Mark Elson]

Hi Ian, what is a good email address? I tried an abilityengineering one.

[Mark Elson]

I am seeing the same thing – in the latest version 3.9.5.7. Our EA version is Build 1309. I tried with and without alias, saving the document profile in each instance, and compared the profile xmls:

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So the right thing is getting out to the xml.

I tried “Name – hyperlinked”, in case things had got switched over, but that outputs “Name – hyperlinked” correctly. So the problem is that “Alias – hyperlinked” causes “Name – hyperlinked” to be exported.

Simple “Alias” (not hyperlinked) does work. For me, that is the lesser of the two evils so I’ll stick with that for now.

Regards, Mark

[Mark Elson]

It looks like there are two capabilities in condition formatting: i) colouring the cell and; ii) text replacement.

It’s clear that i) has to be applied to the whole cell. What I’m after is for ii) to be modified to apply to each attribute or tv that gets placed as a comma-separated value in the cell, i.e. replace it before it gets written to the cell. I think that is more like the expected behaviour for ii).

[Mark Elson]

It shouldn’t be beyond you because that is what eaDocX does. When creating an element report you can “Add attribute of related element …”. That can find more than one “related element” – the dialog clearly expects it as, under “2 – Specify what to print”, it says “Then for each element found, print:”.

[Mark Elson]

I don’t think so but most EA diagrams exported via eaDocX are not bitmaps (albeit in rare cases they might include one). I certainly find that if I save the Word doc as pdf the EA diagram text is searchable (whereas it isn’t in Word).
What I don’t know is whether there an API for pdf that you can call from eaDocX to perform the search.

[Mark Elson]

I have found the same thing in 3.9.3.5. It seems to be specific relationship part of the profile. I found the same thing in the multi-hop settings. Once set, you couldn’t change. The only work around that I have found (apart from reverting to an older version) is to delete the profile line item and recreate it with whatever change is desired.

[Mark Elson]

I have now but it doesn’t work because my requirement profile specifies some tagged values and traceability info which are output to a table under the description (now empty). Even if I delete the tagged values and there are no relationships attached, an empty table still appears (even with compact document=true).

I can see ordering/grouping by profile makes sense in a table but not in in-line text. It would be better to use the EA ordering and let the user control it.

[Mark Elson]

That defeats what I am trying to do.

I had a single profile for requirements that prints description, id, verification method (the last two in a table) etc. I then changed the profile for a Requirement so that it only prints name and children (decription, id etc are non-applicable – it’s just a heading). If I don’t supply the heading stereotype I get a heading but then an empty id etc which looks messy (and elicits complaints).

[Mark Elson]

Thanks for that. I’ve gone down the 2) route. A couple of issues:

i) the background of inserted pictures, where the original has no background (is transparent), comes out black in the Word export which hides most of the figure. Can that be remedied?

ii) eaDocX creates a Figure x caption but if I put in a manual cross-reference to the diagram in the text the exported text/hyperlink just contains the name of the diagram. Is there an option to convert the hyperlink text to state “Figure x”?

Thank you,

Mark

[Mark Elson]

That’s great. Thanks very much, Mark

[Mark Elson]

Somewhere there is a comment (maybe a forum posting or in help but can’t find it right now) that the blanks lines are necessary to stop Word joining tables together.

[Mark Elson]

We’ve not got much option but to run on a Virtual Server and I imagine that might become commonplace. Is there any possibility of changing your licensing approach? Other add-ins seem able to use the EA license manager (e.g. DOORS add-in).

[Mark Elson]

I’ll give StereotypesEX a go. I guess the more unusual aspect of what I was asking was to format one attribute (the Requirement alias) that is a column in a table based on the state of another (stereotype): as Excel can do.
What I can do is just have the extra column with StereoTypesEx, call it “Safety Critical?” and conditional format it as Y if StereoTypesEx contains “Safety Critical” and N otherwise. Thank you for the help.
(BTW, I don’t see a problem with MI if parent classes are orthogonal concepts and you avoid a common ancestor – but that’s a whole other discussion …).

[Mark Elson]

I saw it as something like the attached. As the selection applies to the Title, I guess you may want the column of checkboxes adjacent to that but I wouldn’t mind them being as shown. I guess there might need to be some logic that the checkbox is not selectable if the corresponding Inline table is checked.

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