Inside Enterprise Architect
Inside Enterprise Architect
Querying EA's Database
About the Book
This book shows details of what is at the low level of EA: its database. The information gathered in this book is a summary of what has been found out by quite a number of EA users including me. If you need to dive into details which the official API does not provide, this book is what you might have been looking for.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Copyright and Disclaimer
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1. Accessing the Database
- 1.1 Inspecting EA’s Tables
- 1.2 Ways to Query Tables
- 1.3 A List of All Tables
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2. Most Important Tables
- 2.1 More things than you find in the Project Browser: t_object
- 2.2 The Repository Structure: t_package
- 2.3 The Diagram Frame: t_diagram
- 2.4 Elements Inside Diagrams: t_diagramobjects
- 2.5 Non-Standard Connectors: t_diagramlinks
- 2.6 Connecting Elements: t_connector
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3. Element Feature Tables
- 3.1 Attributes: t_attribute
- 3.2 Operations: t_operation
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4. Tagged Value Tables
- 4.1 Element Tagged Values: t_objectproperties
- 4.2 Attribute Tagged Values: t_attributetag
- 4.3 Operation Tagged Values: t_operationtag
- 4.4 Connector Tagged Values: t_connectortag
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5. Security Related Tables
- 5.1 Settings: t_secpolicies
- 5.2 Users: t_secuser
- 5.3 Groups: t_secgroup
- 5.4 Assignment of users to groups: t_secusergroup
- 5.5 Group permissions: t_secgrouppermission
- 5.6 User permissions: t_secuserpermission
- 5.7 Locks: t_seclocks
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6. Rarely Used Tables
- 6.1 Stereotypes: t_stereotypes
- 6.2 Not the Tagged Values: t_taggedvalue
- 6.3 Attribute Constraints: t_attributeconstraints
- 6.4 Table Attribute Tags: t_attributetag
- 6.5 Linked Documents and Baselines: t_document
- 6.6 Mixed option: t_genopt
- 6.7 Alternate Images: t_image
- 6.8 User Defined Scripts: t_script
- 6.9 Element Requirements: t_objectrequires
- 6.10 Element Constraints: t_objectconstraints
- 6.11 Element Files: t_objectfiles
- 6.12 Scenarios for (mainly) Use Cases: t_objectscenarios
- 6.13 Parameters for Operations: t_operationparms
- 6.14 Various Profiles: t_trxtypes
- 6.15 Status Types: t_lists
- 6.16 Maintenance: t_objectproblems
- 6.17 Various Profiles: t_xrefsystem
- 6.18 RTF: t_rtf
- 6.19 Repository Settings: usys_system
- 6.20 Auditing: t_snapshot
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7. Marvelous References
- 7.1 A simple table: t_xref
- 7.2 Definition of Multi-Stereotypes
- 7.3 Default Composite Diagrams
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8. API Cross References
- 8.1 t_package — EaPackage
- 8.2 t_object — EaElement
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9. Bits and Pieces
- 9.1 CSV Lists
- 9.2 Object Types
- 9.3 What is an Instance
- 9.4 Concurrency
- 9.5 GUID
- 9.6 Object Run State Property
- 9.7 TPos Property
- 9.8 Object StyleEx Property
- 9.9 Package Flags Property
- 9.10 Diagram PDATA Property
- 9.11 Diagram Swimlanes Property
- 9.12 Diagram StyleEx Property
- 9.13 DiagramObject StyleEx Property
- 9.14 Connector SubType Property
- 9.15 Connector Direction Property
- 9.16 Connector PDATA5 Property
- 9.17 Connector StateFlags Property
- 9.18 Connector StyleEx Property
- 9.19 Binary Data
- 9.20 RGB Values
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10. User Settings
- 10.1 Registry
- 10.2 APPDATA
- 10.3 PROGRAMFILES
- 10.4 Multiple EAs in Parallel
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11. GUI References
- 11.1 Element
- 11.2 Diagram
- 11.3 Diagram Element Context
- 11.4 Connector
- 11.5 Attributes
- 11.6 Operations
- 11.7 Miscellaneous
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12. Query Caveats
- 12.1 Debugging SQL
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13. SQL Search Builder
- 13.1 Search Results
- 13.2 Search Tagging
- 13.3 Some Sample Queries
- 13.4 Combine Script with Search
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14. Further Reading
- 14.1 Feedback
- 14.2 Scripting Enterprise Architect
- 14.3 Sparx Forum
- 14.4 Sparx Community
- 14.5 SQL in General
- 14.6 Geert Bellekens
- Notes
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