Hi
Just to give you a bit more context, I’m looking at how we can use EA more efficiently. I really like the idea of storing more information in our EA models and generating documentation directly from them. While I’m trialing your product I’m trying to re-produce a document that was created by copying and pasting diagrams from EA and then adding in extra information manually. I’m finding it fairly easy to do this so far by restructuring the model and using a fairly simple eaDocX profile but one of the things that’s letting it down is being able to say things like “Figure 2 shows that…”, where Figure 2 is a cross reference to a diagram, which we could do in Word. Cross references provide a visual link, i.e. the text matches the caption of a diagram, and a hyper-link which the user can click on to see the diagram which means the document is easy to read in both electronic and printed form.
From what I can see you can’t quite get that behaviour in EA as it really is a hyper-link rather than a cross-reference, so you have to provide static text for the hyper-link and phrase your sentences a little differently.
So, to finally answer your question, I would like to be able to add a hyperlink to a diagram in the notes / description type fields and have them included in a generated document in the way that you describe. Looking at the other types that aren’t supported I don’t think we would use them at present, with the possible exception of the matrix link although I haven’t really looked at this yet.
Mike
