Re: [epf-dev] OPEN Process Framework Repository

[Kelvin Low <lowk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Donald,

1) To save the content in a method editor,
you can click the Save or Save All button (the 2nd and 3rd button on the
global toolbar). Even if you don't do so, the tool will prompt you to save
your changes when you close the editor or the tool. Note: The Save button
will be enabled when you select an editor with content that hasn't been
saved. The Save All button will be enabled when one or more editors have
unsaved content. The Save and Save All on the File menu behave the same
way. Save As... is always disabled for now. It is meant for saving the
current method library to another library.

2) The content of a method library is
stored in a unique folder called a method library folder. EPF Composer
allows you to switch between different method libraries but any at given
time, you can only work on a single method library. Last but not least,
you must have an open method library before you can create a method plug-in
or configuration. Once you start to work with element variability (i.e
having a role extends, contributes to or replaces another role) and configuration,
you will understand why method plug-ins need to be organized and partitioned
properly right from the start. It really involves some architectural and
design decisions.

Regards,
Kelvin


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Kelvin Low
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IBM Method and IC Engineering
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Donald Firesmith <dgf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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04/02/2006 06:37 AM

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Subject	Re: [epf-dev] OPEN Process Framework Repository

Peter,
I encounter a couple of problems:
1) The editor windows on the right do not have a save or save all button
anywhere.  I must click on the x on the window tab.  It asks
me if I 
want to save the changes and I say yes.  They are available to look
at 
and update until I decide to exit the tool.  The save, save as, and
save 
all choices under the file drop down menu bar are all grayed and 
disabled.   When is the save choice to be used if everything is 
supposedly saved as you go?
2) When I try to find my method library using the open method library 
selection, it is not there and  I get the IUPL0300E: Unable to open
the 
specified method library error. I look in the appropriate method library
file folders and although the plugin.xmi file is there, the actual 
roles,  tasks,  etc. are not.

Maybe I should just uninstall and then reinstall the entire program. 

Also, the user interface to begin work on a method plug-in is too much
concerned with the file structure.  The user should be able to pick
from 
a list of available method plug-ins.  Why should the user know or
care 
about file location at this time?  It merely creates the possibility
that the user looses the files or gets confused as to what he/she is 
looking for or where.  This seems to be another example of  a
user-interface that is more oriented towards the tool developer than the
tool user.
:-(
Don Firesmith
OPFRO Chair

Peter Haumer wrote:
>
> Oh dear.  Can you provide us with more details on what you did
and 
> what kind of information got lost?
>
> In general, changes in the tree browser are saved immediately.  The
> editors that open on the right need to be saved with the save or save
> all button.  There was a pasting bug in the past, but I thought
it was 
> already fixed: when you just pasted text into the RTE, saved, and
> closed, the pasted stuff would not be saved.  You had to manually
type 
> something after the paste operation to make the editor "feel
dirty" 
> and save the changes.  Kelvin, is that bug still present in the
EPF 
> version?
>
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Peter Haumer.
>
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> I have created a sample method plug-in with method content, but the
tool
> will not let me save it.  I lost several hours of work because
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> the tool was saving as I went.  Why will the tool not let me
save a
> method plug-in's content?
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