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Analyzing your EA Model

Before you can start to manage your model, it’s a good idea to start by understanding what’s in it.

For larger EA models, this isn’t possible just by opening packages and looking at what’s inside – there are too many, and too much EA information is hidden away in connecters, tagged values, and other hard-to-find places. Model Expert provides two ways to look into an EA model, package-by-package.

Report Description See Also
Package Dashboard A report on the the contents of a package, and gives you a quick summary of what’s happening in that package. Understanding your model-the Package Dashboard
Snapshot meta model Shows the detailed structure of all the elements under a single package Snapshot Meta-Models

Note: Model Expert always works on either a single Package, or a single diagram.

This is because most models have different packages for different kinds of model, or packages for each project, so analyzing a whole model wouldn’t give useful insights.

If you try to analyze all of a large EA model, then be prepared to wait: it may take a long time.