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erwin Evolve 2023.1.0 - User Guide

erwin Evolve 2023.1.0 User Help Guide Legal Notices Getting Started Creating Sites and Pages Data Layout Options Filtering Data Property Groups Data Visualizations Displaying Diagrams Using Web Modeler Automatic Diagrams (Diagram Designer) Navigating your Site Enhanced erwin Evolve Plugins Workflow Explained Social Interaction Features Questionnaires Reference Configuration and Administration Customizing Your Site Troubleshooting Upgrading

Diagram Navigator

Prior to Evolve 2018, diagram hierarchy navigation was performed purely through the diagram drill downs, and an in-page bread crumb trail. This trail was only integrated into the page, and could cause a little confusion with regards to the outer page content. Since the 2018 release a new diagram navigation has been added, that offers a much more visual experience.

As with Smart Crumbs, the Diagram Navigator feature is always enabled, and available to all users.
You will see this new feature as a simple icon above any diagram in your site. See below:

  • When viewing a diagram, pressing the new icon will launch the Diagram Navigator

  • The navigator will show the current diagram at the centre, with arrow-nodes representing each shape on the diagram, that drills down to child diagrams.

  • Selecting one of these arrow-nodes will highlight the single/multiple child diagrams that 'explode' from this shape.

  • Selecting the child diagram shapes, will display a diagram preview at the top left of the Navigator

  • Double-clicking on a child shape will drill down and re-center the Navigator around that diagram.

  • Clicking on the "open" icon on any of the diagram shapes, will open the diagram fully.

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Both Smart crumbs and Diagram navigator are available, provided you are running version 2018 or above.

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Smart Crumbs

Share Diagram Link

The Share Diagram feature enables you to share a diagram's link with your collaborators in multiple ways.

To share diagram links via erwin Evolve Designer:

  1. Open the browser and login to erwin Evolve Web Platform.

  2. Click a model.
    For example, EA Foundation – Sample Model.

  3. Click Application.

  4. Drill down to any application diagram.
    For example, click Application > Application Architecture.

  5. Click .

    The available options to share diagram link appear.

  6. Select the appropriate option. Refer to the following table for option descriptions.

    Field

    Description

    Additional Information

    Copy Diagram Link Copies the current diagram's link Even in case of drilled-down diagrams, this option copies the link to the current drilled-down diagram.
    Mail Diagram Link Opens a draft email with the current diagram's link  

Apart from sharing diagram links, you can also open or print the diagram. Refer to the following table for option descriptions.

Field

Description
Open Diagram Here In case of drilled-down diagrams, this option opens the drilled-down diagram in the same window as the root diagram
Open Diagram in New Tab Opens the current diagram in a new tab in the web browser
Print Current Diagram Open the Print options for the current diagram

Enhanced erwin Evolve Plugins

Overview

A new module, Administration, has been is added to erwin Evolve site, where you can configure new options for object pages.

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To be able to use the enhanced plugins, ensure that you have applied upgrade instructions. For upgrade instructions, refer to the Upgrading to Evolve Suite 2023.0 topic in the erwin Evolve Web Platform Installation Guide.

What do you want to do?

Enable Action On Object Page

Enable Validate on Edit properties

Enable Enhanced Custom Display String

Enable Enhanced Diagram Display

Enable Duplicate Object

Enable Custom Homepage

Enable Page Search

Enable Enhanced Property Display

Enable Redirect Edit View

Enable Complex Table

Enable Settings

Action On Object Page

The Action On Object Page feature enables condition-based messaging, hiding, or highlighting of object pages.

Hover over to view the feature description.

To configure the Action on Object Page feature, follow these steps:

  1. Open the browser and login to erwin Evolve Web Platform.

  2. Click a model. For example, EA Foundation – Sample Model.

  3. Click Administration.

  4. Click Action On Object Page.

  5. Click the Evolve view drop-down list box and select the required option.

  6. To create an operation, click the Add New icon.

  7. Enter appropriate values in the fields. Refer to the following table for field descriptions.

    Field

    Description

    Additional Information

    Name Specifies the operation name  
    Description Specifies the description of the operation  
    Don’t Apply to these Roles Specifies Evolve roles that do not apply to this operation  
    Order

    Specifies the order of operation

    Note: Use up or down arrow to change the order of operation

     
    Filter

    Specifies the filter option to filter the values for operation

    To add a filter, click

    1. Click the Property drop-down list box, and select the required option.

    2. Click the Operator drop-down list box and select the required option.

    3. Use Value or drop-down list to specify the property value.

    Action

    Specifies the types of action. For more information, refer to the Types of Action.

    Note: The action you select applies to the Filter you select.

     
    Element affected

    Specifies the affected elements

    Available when Action is set to Hide or Highlight

    Select Tabs Specifies the selected tabs Available when Action is set to Hide or Highlight and Element affected is set to Tabs
    Selected Property Groups Specifies selected property groups Available when Action is set to Hide or Highlight and Element affected is set to Property Groups
    Selected View Specifies selected views Available when Action is set to Hide or Highlight and Element affected is set to Views
    Class HTML Specifies an HTML class Available when Action is set to Hide or Highlight and Element affected is set to Css Class
    ID HTML Specifies HTML Id Available when Action is set to Hide or Highlight and Element affected is set to Html Id
    jQuery Selector

    Specifies the jQuery Selector

    Available when Action is set to Hide or Highlight and Element affected is set to jQuery Selector.

  8. Click to save the configuration.

    You will be notified that "Configuration draft has been saved".

  9. Click to publish the configuration.

    You will be notified that "Configuration published successfully".

Now, on the object page, you can perform the following actions:

Hide

Use this option to hide Tabs, Views and Property Groups.

You can also hide the following information if you are more experienced with web development:

    • Css Class

    • Html Id

    • jQuery Selector

Highlight

Use this option to highlight Tabs, Property Groups, Views, Css Class, Html Id, or jQuery Selector.

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Highlight works like Hide but adds a color border to the selected element. You can choose what color to use.

You can change the color of the affected elements. Click and use the color palette to set the color.

Display Message

Use this option to display a message on the object page. Use the following options:

    • Select Tabs

      Use this option to select a tab on which you want to display a message. To select a tab, click the Select Tabs drop-down list box and select the required option.

    • Select Picture.

      Use this option to upload a picture to display on the object page.

      To upload a picture, click , select the picture and click Open.

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      You can only upload pictures up to 2 MB.

    • Width

      Use this option to set a picture's width.

      For example, 200.

    • Height

      Use this option to set a picture's height.

      For example, 200

    • Icon

      Use this option to select an icon. You can also change the color of an icon. To change the color, click and use the color palette to set a color.

    • Text

      Use this option to enter a text to display on the object page.

    • Preview

      Use this option to preview the picture, icon with color, and text.

Word Template

Use this option to add Word document on the object page.

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It only supports .docx file type.

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Ensure that you have the word Templar at the following location before adding a url link:http://localhost/evolve/data/easamp14/live.

In the Url Template box, enter the word file url.

For example, http://localhost/evolve/data/easamp14/live/generated/wordfile.docx

You can now see the added at the top right corner.

Double-click to download the word file.

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