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Tutorials can be used to become more productive and efficient in the use of Enterprise Architect. Tutorials, getting started guides, videos and workbooks can all be used to explain concepts and assist others in realizing the power and flexibility of using Enterprise Architect. Use this link to submit tutorials, training material, example workbooks and quick start guides.
Monday, 28 April 2014 20:50
Sparx Enterprise Architect project browser script: find the classifier of an object, port, part or attribute
Written by Guillaume
Early this month, I published a script to sort elements from a selected package by the alias name. This article provides another project browser script that finds and selects the classifier for an instance or a class attribute, or the property type for a SysML port or part. Sparx Enterprise Architect makes it possible to find from a diagram an instance classifier with a right click > Find > Locate Classifier in Project Browser, or a SysML port/part's classifier with a right click > Find > Locate Property Type in Project Browser. As there isn't any similar feature from the…
Tuesday, 15 April 2014 10:34
Enhancements to Generate Documentation in Sparx Enterprise Architect version 11
Written by colin.coates
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect version 11 is very close to being released (I am currently using Release Candidate 2), and promises a host of new and improved functionality. It’s a good time to revisit the built-in reporting, and reflect on how the stepwise improvements during the Enterprise Architect 10 release series have been rolled-up into a streamlined user experience… Improving the dialogue You can right-click on a model root in the Project Browser and view the improved Generate Documentation dialog window. In particular, you will see that the Generate tab contains some additional fields to enable the easy selection of:…
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Sunday, 09 March 2014 15:19
Code Generation in Enterprise Architect using CodeTrigger Plugin
Written by Jack Ndupuechi
This is a short tutorial showing all the steps leading up to the generation of a fully functioning asp .net application from a sample Microsoft SQL database schema in Enterprise Architect, using CodeTrigger for Enterprise Architect, without writing a single line of code. The approach used is also applicable to Oracle and MySql databases, and WPF / WCF / Winforms applications. [Get the plugin here]
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Tagged Values are a convenient way of adding additional information to an element, beyond what is directly supported by Enterprise Architect. Enterprise Architect defines a Tagged Value Type, which constrains the possible values of a tag and can specify how a value is assigned to the tag. This user guide provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to create various predefined tagged Values and add them to an Enterprise Architect element. Click here to read the Tutorial Document.
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Please follow this link to view Enterprise Architect Tips - Compilation 1 Tip #31: Diagram Relationships Visible Use "Diagram | Advanced | Visible Relations" to change visibility of the connectors in a diagram. Tip #32: Exclude images from RTF document Use Diagram | Properties "Exclude image from RTF documents" to exclude the diagram images from any RTF document generated on the parent package or element. Tip #33: Play Up Elements Use Context Filter(Right-Click on the diagram background) to play up the elements on the diagram that are directly related to the selected element. Tip #34: Set Direction for Association Use…
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Thursday, 19 September 2013 11:26
Using Visual Styles in Enterprise Architect to Improve Diagram Appearance
Written by Guillaume
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is a great tool to produce and organise your models using UML, SysML, BPMN or other modelling languages or notations. In some cases, the default rendering of elements on certain types of diagrams lacks a suitable colour scheme and font. This article deals with two topics : Highlight the strengths of Enterprise Architect as a modelling tool versus that of a drawing tool, Applying visual styles to improve the look and feel of your diagrams. A vital switch from a drawing tool to a comprehensive modelling tool Initial context : A colleague and I discovered a…
Monday, 16 September 2013 23:14
Project estimation with Use Case Points using Enterprise Architect (EA)
Written by skilledDeveloper
In this article I will show you how to estimate a software project using Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA)which is a famous CASEtool. (I used EA 7.5 in this article) Based on Rational Unified Process (RUP), In order to estimate software projects duration, you need to recognize the project features and requirements first. This leads you to Use Cases that are cores of a software project analysis model and you cannot estimate any software project without recognizing its Use Cases. Requirements, Features and Use Cases recognition are usually done in the first phase of RUP, Inception.
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Tuesday, 20 August 2013 06:31
Define a set of elements to reuse on diagrams with UML patterns
Written by Guillaume
As an Enterprise Architect user, you may have had the need to apply several times more or less the same set of elements on a given diagram, leading to numerous uses of copy and paste as new. The "copy and paste" feature on a selection of elements, including their associations and layout works ok, but there could be a more suitable way to go about this. Given a context where we have our set of elements i.e. a pattern of modelling elements available from one or several diagrams within our model, we need to apply them several times onto a…
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Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:09
Enterprise Architect on Mac OS and Linux with CrossOver 12
Written by Jana_Lee
Run the Windows software Enterprise Architect 10 on Mac and Linux with CrossOver 12. CrossOver can get your Windows productivity applications and up and running on your Mac and Linux system quickly and easily. Run the Windows software that you need on Mac or Linux at home, in the office or at school without purchasing a Windows license, without rebooting your computer and without having to use a virtual machine. To learn more about running Enterprise Architect on Mac or Linux with CrossOver and to watch our short tutorial video on how to download CrossOver in order to run Enterprise…
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013 15:43
Adding a UI (prototype) layer to Model Simulations in EA
Written by Hamish King
Following on from my previous post on creating and simulating state machines in Enterprise Architect (EA), I will walk through the process of adding a UI to prototype and further interactivity to your model. If you recall the previous article, I walked through the process of setting up ‘Triggers’ to run scenarios through your state machine and set simulation variables at state or sub-state level to better represent your application. All of this information was available using the EA ‘variables’ or recording to the Console. We can go a step further and prototype a quick UI to represent our application…
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:01
Creating and Simulating (also validating) a state machine using Enterprise Architect
Written by Hamish King
Recently I have been reverse engineering a state transition (officially a state machine but I prefer the term state transition model) to understand the complex life-cycle of our application’s central object. I had seen a demo on model simulation but the focus was more on a generated model from source rather than a hand fashioned UML model. This post is a walk through on the process and hopefully some takeaways from what I’ve learned. Understanding complex systems I came into a project that is well down the road to completion but sorely lacking in any concrete documentation which was becoming…
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013 11:30
Track changes in generated documents with EA + SharePoint (or without!)
Written by Hamish King
I wanted to share a tip that I've been using for a while that seems to be a reason some people give for not liking Enterprise Architect (EA) – not being able to track document changes. EA works by generating RTF documents of its content which many users prefer of the more interactive HTML renderings of that same content – either due to habit or function. While EA has countless benefits for analysis (just read this blog for many examples!) it doesn't provide document versioning / differencing out of the box. This is no problem at all since MS Word…
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Colouring your EA models isn't just a matter of making your diagrams pretty. Colour can add clarity and accuracy to your models, and make it easier for the consumers of you knowledge to understand what you mean. This paper reviews some of the ways you can use colour, to show structure and status in your EA Models, and provide guidance and insight for specific groups of users.
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There’s an epidemic of bad software floating around these days. Chances are you’ve encountered buggy and/or unnecessarily hard to use software recently. This epidemic isn’t really surprising, especially if you’ve read the books I’ve written with Matt Stephens: Design Driven Testing or Extreme Programming Refactored or Agile Development with ICONIX Process. There’s a bunch of agile development shops out there underspecifying their software and (as a result) testing it inadequately, so that you and I can have the privilege of debugging it for them and putting new user stories onto their backlog. Imagine for a moment that you’re working at…
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