Released on: January 15, 2015
Easy Transition from Documents to Models
Good news for modelers, who frequently exchange information with project stakeholders that are not modelers and work exclusively with documents! Information exchange becomes easier and faster, because now you can copy listed texts and tables to your Cameo Enterprise Architecture model directly from documents, web pages, email messages, presentations, or other text sources.
When you copy a listed text, each item of this list becomes a new named element in your model (to simplify the creation, basic numbering and bullets are not reproduced in the model).
Elements can be created either in the Containment tree or on the diagram pane, as you can see in the following figures.
When you copy a table, each row becomes the corresponding element with its properties. If elements already exist in the model, the information updates.
Projects with File Attachments
Do you use hyperlinks to external files in your project? If so, then you must be familiar with several common issues that are solved in the latest version of MagicDraw. Now you can attach any type of file to your project!
Do you use hyperlinks to external files in your project? If so, then you must be familiar with the common issues:
- The project references the file, but not its particular version. Hence, as soon as the newer version of this file is committed to your version control system, the project starts referencing inappropriate information.
- If you have a systems specification consisting of a set of models and documents, you need to manually collect the referenced files before giving the entire specification to your peers.
- It takes time to establish a commonly accessible location (e.g., a network drive) where you share hyperlinked files from models to your colleagues.
The latest version of the product includes the solution! Now you can attach any type of file to your project simply by dragging the file icon from the file system to the Model Browser. The particular file version becomes embedded in this project. The contents of the attached file can be modified and the changes are instantly saved to the project.
Attached files can be:
- Hyperlinked from model elements.
- Inserted into rich text format (HTML) and displayed on diagrams (image files only).
- Reused in other projects.
Transferring Projects between Consciously Disconnected Environments
Teamwork Servers, which run in consciously disconnected or secured environments, can still exchange projects!
MagicDraw Teamwork Server 18.1 supports transferring project data from one Teamwork Server to another by using any external storage device, such as CD, DVD, hard disc, or flash memory device. The updated version of the shared project can be transferred back to the sharing server and smoothly merged with the original project version. Furthermore, the same project version can be given to several contributors simultaneously, and the contributions to the model they make can be successfully merged as well.
Editable Relation Maps
Now with the Relation Map you can do more than just analysis! You can expand your model with new elements or edit the names of the existing ones directly in the relation map.
You may also create new elements in UPDM predefined relation maps such as Capability Structural Map, Implementation Map.
Elements you can create depend on the selected Element Type and Relation Criterion.
TIP! To create elements faster and more easily:
- Select the element and press Insert (Cmd+I for Mac users) to decompose it.
- Type element name and press Ctrl+Enter to create the element of the same type.
New Enterprise Architecture Portal for Sharing Projects
Publish your project as interactive web portal and share it with stakeholders, including even those incapable of reading models in Cameo Enterprise Architecture! The published web portal eliminates less needed elements from the model tree and proposes the most relevant views of enterprise architecture project, such as capability / strategic, operational, systems, services, standards, projects. This allows you to discover your project in a user-friendly and easily browsable environment. Learn more |  |
 | Smarter diagram layout, simplified search options, more efficient synchronization of elements and their properties, traceability enhancements, direction prefixes, rake icon, and many more features save modeler's time and allow focusing on what to model, but not how to model and keep the result well-formed. Learn more |
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