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
- 1. Preface
- 2. Copyright and Disclaimer
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3. Accessing the Database
- 3.1 Inspecting EA’s Tables
- 3.2 Ways to Query Tables
- 3.3 A List of All Tables
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4. Most Important Tables
- 4.1 More things than you find in the Project Browser: t_object
- 4.2 The Repository Structure: t_package
- 4.3 The Diagram Frame: t_diagram
- 4.4 Elements Inside Diagrams: t_diagramobjects
- 4.5 Non-Standard Connectors: t_diagramlinks
- 4.6 Connecting Elements: t_connector
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5. Element Feature Tables
- 5.1 Attributes: t_attribute
- 5.2 Operations: t_operation
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6. Tagged Value Tables
- 6.1 Element Tagged Values: t_objectproperties
- 6.2 Attribute Tagged Values: t_attributetag
- 6.3 Operation Tagged Values: t_operationtag
- 6.4 Connector Tagged Values: t_connectortag
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7. Security Related Tables
- 7.1 Settings: t_secpolicies
- 7.2 Users: t_secuser
- 7.3 Groups: t_secgroup
- 7.4 Assignment of users to groups: t_secusergroup
- 7.5 Group permissions: t_secgrouppermission
- 7.6 User permissions: t_secuserpermission
- 7.7 Locks: t_seclocks
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8. Rarely Used Tables
- 8.1 Stereotypes: t_stereotypes
- 8.2 Not the Tagged Values: t_taggedvalue
- 8.3 Attribute Constraints: t_attributeconstraints
- 8.4 Table Attribute Tags: t_attributetag
- 8.5 Linked Documents and Baselines: t_document
- 8.6 Mixed option: t_genopt
- 8.7 Alternate Images: t_image
- 8.8 User Defined Scripts: t_script
- 8.9 Element Requirements: t_objectrequires
- 8.10 Element Constraints: t_objectconstraints
- 8.11 Element Files: t_objectfiles
- 8.12 Scenarios for (mainly) Use Cases: t_objectscenarios
- 8.13 Parameters for Operations: t_operationparms
- 8.14 Various Profiles: t_trxtypes
- 8.15 Status Types: t_lists
- 8.16 Maintenance: t_objectproblems
- 8.17 Various Profiles: t_xrefsystem
- 8.18 RTF: t_rtf
- 8.19 Repository Settings: usys_system
- 8.20 Auditing: t_snapshot
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9. Marvelous References
- 9.1 A simple table: t_xref
- 9.2 Definition of Multi-Stereotypes
- 9.3 Default Composite Diagrams
- 9.4 Profile file locations
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10. API Cross References
- 10.1 t_package — EaPackage
- 10.2 t_object — EaElement
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11. Bits and Pieces
- 11.1 CSV Lists
- 11.2 Object Types
- 11.3 What is an Instance
- 11.4 Concurrency
- 11.5 GUID
- 11.6 Object Run State Property
- 11.7 TPos Property
- 11.8 Object StyleEx Property
- 11.9 Package Flags Property
- 11.10 Diagram PDATA Property
- 11.11 Diagram Swimlanes Property
- 11.12 Diagram StyleEx Property
- 11.13 DiagramObject ObjectStyle Property
- 11.14 Connector SubType Property
- 11.15 Connector Direction Property
- 11.16 Connector PDATA5 Property
- 11.17 Connector StateFlags Property
- 11.18 Connector StyleEx Property
- 11.19 Binary Data
- 11.20 RGB Values
- 11.21 Boundaries and Placeholders
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12. User Settings
- 12.1 Registry
- 12.2 APPDATA
- 12.3 PROGRAMFILES
- 12.4 Multiple EAs in Parallel
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13. GUI References
- 13.1 Element
- 13.2 Diagram
- 13.3 Diagram Element Context
- 13.4 Connector
- 13.5 Attributes
- 13.6 Operations
- 13.7 Miscellaneous
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14. Query Caveats
- 14.1 Debugging SQL
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15. SQL Search Builder
- 15.1 Search Results
- 15.2 Search Tagging
- 15.3 Some Sample Queries
- 15.4 Combine Script with Search
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16. Further Reading
- 16.1 Feedback
- 16.2 Scripting Enterprise Architect
- 16.3 Sparx Forum
- 16.4 Sparx Community
- 16.5 SQL in General
- 16.6 Geert Bellekens
- Notes
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