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Theo van der DonkParticipant
This would be a great feature – it would be so powerful to define different formatting for different sections. For example, it allows all included components in a diagram in section 1 to list only their name and description, but in another section, list for another diagram many more details for contained components. +1!
Theo van der DonkParticipantYes, it is rather easy — but powerful.
Where to specify the scaling, depends also on your opinion. It can be in EA (for example, as diagram tags), or it can be in eaDocX (diagram right-click, same place where you specify whether to include all elements or not).
I think I prefer the latter one, is this is more close to the document, and you control the GUI for this (instead of having to deal with tags).
While on the subject, perhaps other options like rotating the diagram 90/270 degrees makes sense and is easy to implement?
Regarding the scaling, my intention is to specify max width and height (in cm? or perhaps any other unit that word understands, for example, width = 80% of page width…?), instead of a “scaling factor” as referenced in the article (but, perhaps word also understands scaling factors, so the user can choose whether to enter “12cm” or “80%”, and word understands it. If I look at the dialog in word, you can choose “absolute” and “relative” scaling. For relative you can specify the ‘reference’ (for example, relative to page). For the amount, you can enter every value (just text field), so “12 cm” or “80%” should perhaps all go fine.
It may also be useful to have a checkbox to keep aspect-ratio (which I would normally like), but maybe for other purposes aspect-ratio should not be kept constant.
I do not want to make it too complicated for you with all of these options, but it may be easier to implement them all at once instead of having to expand the functionality in an incremental way.
Theo van der DonkParticipantThis is not what I intend (I knew about this other post). What I want is to keep it one big diagram (no need to split it up); I just want that the word-properties of the image (width and height (in cm) in the document are adjusted. Word will then scale the image by itself; no complicated manipulations!
Example link where a similar thing is realized using scripting within word:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Microsoft-Word-1058/Word-resize-pictures.htmTheo van der DonkParticipantThanks very much! Works now!
Theo van der DonkParticipantAdding Cross-element Report to empty document is just a show-case; adding them to a filled-in document gives the same exception. It is an exception about objects not being assigned, so it is not the warning you believe it to be.
Bottom line is that, for me, adding element reports doesn’t work anymore in the very latest update of your software. Please also see the error log attached to the previous message. Can you reproduce this in version 3.2.9.9?
Theo van der DonkParticipantThanks for your fix. Sorry to bother you with another (related?) one: I have an overview of my components, and per component such an “element” report for all realized requirements. All requirements appear in the table, but only few of them are actually links (to a later section where all requirements referenced by from within the document are listed, as “element cross reference).
What I notice now, is that if I delete this cross-reference section, and try to add a new one, I get an exception (see attached). This also happens after restarting EA, and creating a new word document. So, starting with an empty document, choosing insert -> report -> element report, filling in the fields (I use element cross ref, but other options seem not to work), and then press ok gives the exception.
Theo van der DonkParticipantThank you for your fix, works like a charm.
I may have discovered another issue, also related to “element reports”.
If I generate a report (for example, for all components in the model), and include a “table of attributes” of related elements (for example, related requirements), this does not work. The table is not included, and after editing the “table” again, I do not see the table anymore (instead it is converted into a “single attribute” type.
However, if I do not use “element reports”, but directly include the same component, it works (nicely generates the table).
I suspect a similar issue to the one before: that the combination of using “element reports” introduces this issue…
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