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How to use ARCSeeker with Enterprise Architect
In this page, you can find more details regarding ARCSeeker's usage with Enterprise Architect.
Step 1. Create the Storage for ARCSeeker
First, you must create a "storage" in your local drive or network drive to store components.
From the Main menu, select File | New Storage. The following dialog is shown.
Specify a directory for the "Base Directory." ARCSeeker creates some files in the directory to manage storage's information and then opens the new storage. Now you are ready to use ARCSeeker.
Now an empty storage is opened. There are no components now.
Step 2. Make Components from an Enterprise Architect Model
With the ARCSeeker Connector Add-in for Enterprise Architect, you can make Components from the Enterprise Architect packages.
Before making components, you must set the Options from the Enterprise Architect main menu, Add-in | ARCSeeker Connector | Options. In the following dialog, specify your storage which you made in step 1.
If you set the Options properly, you can select Add-in | ARCSeeker Connector | Register Packages when you right-click the target package in the Project Browser. You can specify the target packages, and all the packages and related packages will be imported as components.
When diagrams in the target package use (link) element(s) which are not included in the target package, ARCSeeker asks to make the dependent component(s) at the same time. If you answer Yes, ARCSeeker will automatically make components and then make relationships between these components. When you export a component to another EAP file later, ARCSeeker will automatically check these relationships and import the dependent components at the same time. By this feature, you can create and manage UML models properly.
You can check this relationship by the relationship diagram of ARCSeeker.
Step 3. Add Various Information to Components
After importing, your storage has components which are made from the Enterprise Architect model. Some properties of each component will have values from the Enterprise Architect model, but you need to add more information to be able to find components easier for later use.
You can add your own original tags (like UML's Tagged Values). To add tags, open a component (double-click component in the List view) and select the Tags & Keywords tab. You can add Groups, and then add Tags in Groups. Each tag has a name and a value.
It is an option to add groups and tags to each component, but rather setting them one by one, it is better to add them to the storage at once. When you add them to the storage, all components will have the same groups and tags. You do not need to set tags to each component. You can also define a default tagged value or selection list items for each tag.
To add tags to the storage, double-click storage in the List view, and then select the Tags & Keywords tab. You can add a group, and then add tags. The following screen shot is an example. If you wish to specify default items for selection using the drop-down list for future use of each component, right-click the tag and select Set List Items. When you enter a value to a storage's tag, the value of the storage will be the default value of each component's Tag.
After saving the changes, all components will have the same groups and tags as storage's groups and tags. You enter (or select, change) value to each tag of each component as necessary.
