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Information, HOWTOs, tips and tricks on the features of Enterprise Architect tool.


Basics: Configuration Preferences (EA-13)

The article is intended at beginners and advanced users alike and shows the basic configuration of preferences recommended for Enterprise Architect.

Configuration Dialog for Preferences

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Posted in Diagrams, Enterprise Architect, Security

Helpful links about document generation

Die Ressourcen hinter den folgenden Links können bei der Generierung von Dokumentation sowie der Erstellung von Dokument-Vorlagen hilfreich sein:


Model Driven Architecture (Model Transformations)

Enterprise Architect supports the proposed OMG standard MDA
EA provides a template based approach to transform platform independent models (PIM) into platform specific models (PSM). The PIM is a higher level conceptual mode…

Posted in Enterprise Architect, Model Transformation

Use any number of custom tags during report generation

The report generator allows you to configure any number of custom tags for the entire project. 

Posted in Document Generation, Enterprise Architect, Model Search

Modell-Suche Scripten

Sometimes a question can not be answered with a single SQL query. In order to still use the model search, the search can also be scripted.

We write a script (mySearchScript) and programmatically run through the model. In the script itself we can of course use SQL queries (myQuery). The result of the SQL query can be processed further in the script.

Posted in Enterprise Architect, Model Search

Important Permissions in EA and their Meaning

This article describes the at least necessary permission granted to an EA user.

Posted in EA FAQs, Security, Teamwork

Formatted notes when using SQL in fragment templates

Fragment Template

A fragment template is an RTF template, which can be called from another RTF template. This increases the re-usability of the templates and the flexibility to generate documents.

When the template f…

Posted in Document Generation, Model Search

Transfer a File-based Project Repository into a DBMS

In normal system maintenance, it is likely that you need to relocate data between memory sys…

Posted in Model Repository, Project Transfer

Remove Auditing from a Repository

Auditing is a repository-level feature that model administrators can…

Posted in Auditing, Model Repository, Project Transfer

Enable Auditing Feature for a Repository

Auditing is a repository-level feature that…

Posted in Auditing, Model Repository, Project Transfer