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Installer woes - and their remedy…?

Matt — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:11:04 +0000

It would appear that some people have had issues with trying to get Time Architect to install and most have had no problems at all.

This has led to quite a lot of head scratching and trying to understand how to get the installer program to correctly register the Time Architect Add-In both with the .Net Framework and the COM+ framework needed for it to show up correctly in Enterprise Architect.

After various bits of trial, error, testing and swearing we believe that we have solved the issue. To this end there is a new version of the installer available from the website that should mean that TA installs ‘out of the box’.

Should anyone have any problems with the new version of the installer - that appears to be working - then please drop us a line and we’ll have another look at the installer.

Many thanks and all the best.

The pain of EA Task Panes

Matt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:29:24 +0000

As part of the process of making TA more accessible and easier to understand, we are currently looking at extending the TA Profile so that it is a full MDG technology. The EA help manual is very useful but there is the odd hole or two when you are trying to find out how to do something. The Tasks Pane explanation shows how to call commands and help pages but one of the most useful things in the Tasks Pane is the ability to put a link to a URL.

This, of course, was the bit that couldn’t be found anywhere in the manual!

Well after trying all the combinations of:

EASystem::ShowWeb()
EASystem::ShowPage()
EASystem::ShowLink()
etc…

I finally managed to hit on the right one! EASystem::ShowURL(url to goto) as with most things it’s easy once you know how - it’s just finding it sometimes that’s the pain! Hope this helps someone else out there!