eaUtils 1.17.2 has been released with the following enhancements:
- Keyboard shortcut option.
- Find in All Diagrams supports image assets and information flows.
Download link: www.eautils.com/download.
Keyboard shortcuts
eaUtils keyboard shortcuts have been implemented to easily run its features. Since Enterprise Architect doesn't yet support a reserved list of shortcuts for add-ins, this feature has been made optional should any conflict with EA or another third-party add-in occurs.
A single keyboard shortcut is currently available: Alt + U for Find in All Diagrams (close to Enterprise Architect equivalent: Ctrl + U).
Find in All diagrams with Image Assets
Image Assets have been introduced with Enterprise Architect 13 as an alternative to the built-in image library. EA has a great rendering support of images (compared with some other modelling tools). When you add an image to your repository, it is by default created in the image library. When a repository contains numerous images, it can sometimes be difficult to manage them. Image Assets provide an alternative to use image as model elements within EA Project Browser. As a result you can easily organize them by packages.
Image Assets can be added on a diagram, however this is not the recommended usage. Instead boundary elements should be used as summarized here:
- Create an image or boundary from the Common toolbox on the diagram.
- Right click and select Appearance > Select Image Asset as Alternate Image.
- Select the image asset element to link.
- Result: the image is displayed and linked with this boundary element.
The following diagram illustrates a boundary element and an image asset on a diagram.
Running Sparx Find in All Diagrams on the Image Asset element only generates usage results for the element itself (added as a Link). eaUtils Find in all Diagrams supports boundary elements linked with Image Assets. The linked Image Asset used on diagrams is identified with Usage Type = Image Asset.
An Image Asset usage in diagrams is identified with Usage Type = Link. The associated boundary elements on diagrams is identified with Usage Type = Boundary (image). A double click on a Boundary row opens the diagram and select this image boundary.
Below is a video demonstration on UMLChannel Youtube channel.
Find in All diagrams with Information Flows
Using Information Flows between elements such as Components is a useful feature in EA (see the illustration below).
Finding all diagrams with the information flow where a class, data object, or data type is conveyed is now possible with eaUtils. Example: the following results are available for a class that is used/conveyed between UML components. Double clicking on a row will open the diagram and select the connector
Below is a video demonstration on UMLChannel Youtube channel.
