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Great questions!! The short answer is, "it depends". We need to be short and concise at the start and can get much more detailed as we go. Let me think about this and put a video in the queue for the "Why" and "When". I will note that "Constraints" can be interpreted differently based on the case and objectives. I tend to push the boundaries of how OMG defines UML Constraints. Taking OCL out of the picture, I tend to loosely use "constraints" to represent human concerns, views, and viewpoints. We can apply "constraints" at the Use Case Property level, at the Requirement Property level, or any other element properties (each for their own reason and interpretations). Most of my models "tell stories" in human-readable form, while technical models follow strict programming language interpretations of "constraints" and should be "machine readable". With that said, my Use Case Templates, when at Summary and User-Goal levels, are "Human Readable" and when at sub-function level, they are Machine Interpretable. "Success Guarantees" are applicable to all levels and represent important "constraints" (performance objectives) we are looking for. Again, let me read this a couple times and break things down into "requirements" for a view response 😉 Thanks so much for this post!! HAPPY MODELING

Sparx EA released XMI 2.1 in Version 7 back in 2007. So you are in a new version and it is greyed out (disabled), but you do see 2.1, right? Do you own the license, or is it a company license and possibly configured by a Model Administrator?

Sparx version 17 took it out in the Microsoft Office 2022 Theme, but it's still in the Microsoft Office 2016 Theme :)

VERY NICE USE CASE!! excuse the pun :)... Short answer: We create a "Test Requirement" simply titled "Test Function n" where "Test Case A" implements the Test Requirement. Our "Use Case A" implements that requirement. Test Case A is Associated to Use Case A and References the Component and/or Function (where the function is part of Component A) Long answer: Let me do this in my next My First... video. I will title the video "My First Test Case". Although, it's a little more advanced and ahead of schedule, I think it's a great learning example for interested subscribers. NOTE: I will use some features and capabilities in Sparx for doing this. We will use Model Builder for a basic Use Case Model with Test Cases and a Starter Component Diagram to address our System boundary. We will define a Scenario for the Test Case and we will do some basic documentation. We will attempt to get this video out next Thursday, 10/24, unless something urgent arrives :)

You are right! THANK YOU. There are five ways to bring up the Sparx EA Toolbox: 1) Use Design Ribbon, in "Diagram" Panel, select Toolbox 2) Use the Guillement "<<" (double arrows) at the left top of the work area window 3) Using the Quick Access Design from the All Windows panel, you can get the Toolbox to a currently 'remembered' placed in your workspace. Also, in the Diagram, press Alt+1 and the Design Panel pops up. NOTE: Alt+ 1 through 7 pops each of the Quick Access pop-ups. 4) Using the spacebar, while on a diagram, pops the Toolbox where you mouse is. 5) Using Keyboard shortcuts, while in a diagram, is Ctrl+Shift+3, will pop and place the Toolbox where you have configured it for the workspace. The "Spacebar" approach is great for those familiar with each of the icons and understand that the element is placed where the mouse pointer is. Thanks again :)

@@UMLOperator you're welcome. I love your videos..

LOL, I am still laughing, and then I start crying because Sparx took away the "Find Command..." next to the Tabs in Sparx 17. I want an AI Feature we can type/talk to to actually find what I am looking for. While I push ChatGPT as a learning tool, even that is wrong 80% of the time, but still better than Sparx Search 😉. My "My First..." video series is pushing teams to use the Model Builder documentation to build their own "Job Aids" and customize to fit their team's culture and processes. Then build a Model Library with a their own "Quick Access" Category for targeted roles. Thank you so much for the post!

Yes. We will move across the top, talk about Cloning and touch on Versioning.

@@UMLOperator Thanks!

Thank you for asking! Yes, go to the time marker of 2_26 in th-cam.com/video/stmn0aE8mbY/w-d-xo.html in "Sparx Import A DB Schema" video. Don't worry about Entity Framework, as that would be a separate conversation, but we can talk about the "transform" topic if you need. You will see when you get to this point of Database Schema import (2_26 time marker), you can select the table(s) you want. You can watch that video in entirety and let me know specific questions I did that video quickly and should do another video on the subject for Sparx 17. We are planning this as part of the new "External Data Import" capabilities in Sparx 17.

@@UMLOperator That is exactly what I needed!

Yeah, I can't wait! So many things going on in my company as well as from the Sparx EA Version 17 release 😀. Some content has pushed the Scripting Series off a little bit. I assume you have already watched th-cam.com/video/0T9p6X8cwT8/w-d-xo.html Question: Are you just starting with Sparx Scripting, or have you advanced any? We plan on starting with simple custom scripts, then moving to things like getting data from an external database.

@@UMLOperator Yes, I've watched it -thanks. I'm only at beginner level for the scripting, and haven't really progressed. I've learnt most of SparxEA from your series. Thanks!

I like the way you phrased that, “…formal process”. I started UML in 1999 (a couple years after the industry release). When I started, I was looking for faster ways to learn. Scott Ambler was one of my mentors on the subject. When UML 2.x came out around 2003, it really took off, and a friend of mine from Japan, introduced me to Sparx EA. I started in ArgoUML, but moved to Sparx and never looked back. Now I help companies in System and Software Architecture/Engineering and receive many challenges from Modelers, thus the reason for this channel today. Keep me posted on challenges you have. We attempt to expose “a formal process” in our playlist on Model-Driven Anything”, th-cam.com/play/PLB12uLQxqtuVJQYxCsmnsTWnq5YjwGT-X.html More to come, Thank you

Absolutely! Thank you for asking. That is one of the reasons I started a Series on Learning faster and more effectively. While TAM started in Version 16.1, it was not ready for primetime. The new Timelines access and Timelines window was very exciting, and we are using daily. Expect a TAM session soon 😀

@@UMLOperator awaiting sir!😊

@@Learner-y8e The first TAM video comes out next Tuesday. We will start with the Timelines feature, then have other videos that get into Cloning, Versioning, and Traceability.

@@UMLOperator Super Excited sir 😎

Thank you! On the Discord front, because we are so busy with clients, it's hard to commit time to a Discord Channel (moderating & support). Things were supposed to slow down this year, but that has not happened yet. The question is whether to do Discord, or to build communities on the Training Course platform we are currently working on. Also, Patreon may be another options. You have motivated me to get a community started faster. I would love to hear your story on why modeling is such a critical part of your personal life. I too, have the same passion. I will keep you posted.

For Class elements as Graph Nodes, we use Custom Draw. We can also use Shape Scripts, but that is another subject 😀 There is a couple approaches to applying "weight". I prefer to use Tagged Values because we will apply these weights automatically on query-runs, and do not manually enter them. Other approaches use "Constraints" being applied using OCL (object constrain language), either OCL directly or as Pre- or Post- Conditions. To be honest, we use Sparx for Design and our Graph Tooling for monitoring and producing Analytics for Machine Learning. But since we are already producing JSON output, sometimes we apply back to our Sparx Models for documenting. I hope that answered your question. If not, let me know. Happy Modeling 😎

I just published a video on how we transformed the shapes: "Turn Class Shape to Node Shape" th-cam.com/video/Au10ySPfGRU/w-d-xo.html

If you copy the Glossary cells from Sparx Glossary View directly, you do not get the GlossaryID column. > You are correct, going to Sparx SQL Table (t_glossary) is the best way to do CRUD operations outside of Sparx. > Another way is through XML. Exporting the Glossary only, as Reference Data, gives you a good XML file where you can manage the data. Just remember to keep the GlossaryID unique (incremented). > I have developed Web Tooling to read the Sparx Glossary table and even do CRU operations (be careful with Delete). > I also use a BI Tool (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau) to extract and manage Sparx Glossary and other data. We support a lot of companies that have their own Glossaries and Acronym data which we mine and bring into Sparx. That's the beautiful thing about Sparx as a SQL Backend 😀

Specifically for Software Modeling? Yes, we are planning to start publishing later this year. Our playlist on "Model Driven Anything" is the start for such focus. The problems we see in Software Modeling, and Development in general, is due to lack of proper/effective Requirements Engineering. Thus we have been focused on the front end of software development. I appreciate your post because to you put focus on "requirements" and "use case", which are the most important starting points. We have done a lot of videos on Use Case modeling driving Simulation and auto-generating State Machine and Behavioral Diagrams. If you do a search on UML Operator, let me know if any are close to your needs, and we will attempt to fill those gaps. I may try to put old videos into a specific playlist, or create new ones. But feel I should start from scratch. Question to you: Do you have a specific set of Use Cases, or just one, you would deal with (high level)? The reason for asking, is that we have a couple of use cases; one being Engine Control Modules (ECM). Another is e-Commerce Personalization, dealing with tailoring outcomes for user experiences (UX). We are going for UX scenarios. Thoughts?

​@@UMLOperator First off, thanks for your prompt reply, sir. To answer your question, we have some high-level requirements and their breakdown specific to our Access Point project. but we don't know how to apply it to developing usecases and building building systems that satisfy the requirements (components) and its logic (class) in Sparx Enterprise Architect. It would be really helpful to see something from you, like 10 minutes of video showing this travel with a very minimal subset of any example, sir. We tried the learning center from Sparx, but it's very vast, sir. Thanks in Advance :)

@@Learner-y8e First off, thank you so much for the "10 Minute" rule :). I try to keep things short, but I am so passionate about UML, when I start...I look down and it's 30 minutes of content :). I am starting a Playlist, "5 Minutes or Less". However, your request will have me stay with 10 Minutes or less :) Ok, I will put your request into our queue. We actually have started scripting for our Training Courses starting soon. I will tweak a script to support your scenario. Be patient as we shuffle our queue and try to get this video out soon.

@@UMLOperator Thanks you so much sir😊.. We're looking forward to it.

Yes. We use Class Diagrams to accomplish this. As you know, graph databases deal with Nodes, Edges, and Properties. Classes represent nodes, Associations represent relationships, and Attributes represent the Properties of Nodes and Edges. We model our Class diagram(s) to represent a specific instance of the Graph, which then allows us to depict the Nodes (as objects) and the associations (edges) between Nodes in the Graph. There are limitations, so we usually do this side-by-side with query languages (e.g., Cypher, Neo4j) for our graph-specific models. This works as long as we understand the limitations. Thank you for the question! We have done quite a bit with UML related to things like horizontal and vertical data relevance (and traversal) in ML design and learning models (e.g., Personalization and Tailoring). These are advance subjects in CASE/UML, and will try to get to these later.

@@UMLOperator As regards how to make the shape of a Node represented by a Class to be round, I got the answer in your video [Sparx EA Custom Drawing Style (e18)]

Yes, this is very beneficial 😃...QQs, Is the source of record, that defines your Tagged Values, maintained outside of Sparx? Or, are some or all Tagged Values defined in Sparx? WOW! Great post! Thank you!!

@@UMLOperator I just made them up in the Excel to Identify just a few like Area, Function etc... as needed by the teams.

@@q34dana Thanks again. It was great to come back to 'flat files" or CSV again. They certainly are great sources of 'data' in action. Here, we built our own Web UI over a simple database, that does the same thing as we were doing in Excel (video coming soon ). This allows us to integrate with other external ALM/DevSecOps third party platforms. Then we use scripting to access that table for import/export with Sparx EA. However, we still have clients that give us their Requirements/Scope in Excel. We also use BI Tooling (e.g., PowerBI) to analyze data to support these table views. This is what is wonderful about 'data first' tools such as Sparx EA vs other tools in the industry. Thank you for your leadership in this area. HAPPY MODELING!

Yes 😀 ... my answer is yes because I am passionate about this subject. See umloperator.blogspot.com/2024/09/sparx-ea-and-open-collaboration.html for more. Our series on these subject may be much later as we are currently working on so many other projects. We have some other content to cover, and planning to launch our Online Training and Communities. Thank you for asking! I would like to ask what other tooling you are implementing? Is Azure DevOps your only concern? Any other platforms, such as Git, GitLab, AWS DevOps, Jira?

@@UMLOperator I’m currently interested in Azure DevOps and in anything related to Azure development/architecture in general. I’ve seen Sparx Enterprise Architect has some capabilities to model Azure architecture and it would be nice to know more about it as well.

We are launching our Online Courses later this year, when time permits. I will keep you posted. Thank you for asking.

Hello UML Operator. I was able to figure it out. The Sparx documentation stated to put the Legend into a standard UML diagram (previously, I had it in a SysML diagram). Then (with the diagram opened), I navigated to: Specialize >> Technologies >> Publish Technology >> Publish Diagram as Pattern, and saved my pattern as 'xxx.xml'. In a new Project File, I navigated to: Resources >> Patterns, and dragged + dropped the Legend. 🙂

Hello @johnkhan174, I hope all is well 😀. I have a video I create last year, th-cam.com/video/uYMyS7EsbJo/w-d-xo.html. This would be used for one "Legend" in this case, at a time. If you want to reuse/share all your Legends, there are at least 2 ways: 1) Export your Legend building folder using XMI (XML Metadata Interchange). Name this folder something like, "XMI Exports". Subfolders may be titled, "<project name>", where the XMI store is "%drive%/Sparx/Model Repo/XMI Exports/OurCo KMS Project Release 1/". This way you can get to the model package exports for a specific project, theme, or area. NOTE: Place the XML in a specific shared folder for XMI. Do not mix with other XML. Name the XMI file something meaningful, such as "SharedModel_PackageName_version" or "SM_<packageName>_<version>. 2) Version in Reusable Asset Service (RAS) under a storage area. Learn more here: "Start a Project From Sparx RAS" th-cam.com/video/NbEQwONHdDc/w-d-xo.html Summary, Each Legend as a reusable Pattern; Legends as a reusable Package via XMI; Legend or Legend Package shared from RAS. Let me do a video on this question. I will get it out soon.

😀 Yeah, this actually saved me. Doing the rest of the MDA series was tough doing things the manual way. It was great timing to bring in automation early. For other client projects, we use other UML Tooling (simple drawing tools that boast of great things, but end up taking more time to deliver). This is why I prefer to use Sparx EA!! 🤓 Usually pays for itself in one project.

Thank you for asking! Wow, I could talk on this subject for hours and days!! Short answer is "yes". Long answer: For the clients, partners, and friends I support today, the answer is most certainly yes. In my previous career with AT&T for over 20 years, that was my primary focus as an Enterprise and Solution Architect. I helped move our bare metal data centers into cloud. I helped to advance AT&T in "big data", machine learning and AI, and won awards for doing so. However, today, I still argue that cloud is NOT always the best solution. Cloud is certainly here to stay…but! We need to measure the reasons (justification) as to why pay for either? What is the investment, COO, and ROI of maintaining a "data warehouse"? What are the trade-offs with Security and Data Privacy? and so much more. So yes, I will be doing videos on Data Warehouse (DW) Architecture. Whether it is in its own Video Series, or part of example Architecture Projects, has yet to be determined. I believe all businesses, small to very large, must have a DW strategy. So modeling DW approaches is critical to help answer questions on whether and when to pursue such architecture.

Assuming you mean "Sparx Scripting", the answer is yes, I have played with it, but I use Sparx Dashboards minimally. It is easier and faster, to me, to build Dashboards with other BI Tooling. I often have to mine data for more than just Sparx data. I primarily use Power BI today, and have used Tableau in the past. Sparx makes it fairly easy to build Charts with SQL. Once you learn Sparx Data Tables and can write SQL following their logic, that is usually enough. If not using another BI Tool, and only want to use Sparx EA, then you need to write logic to return results as JSON, then use "!INC Local Scripts.ChartAutomation", "var chartData", and execute "function ConstructChart( guid )". It is certainly more complicated than that, but that is the gist of it. Check this link out, if youtube allows: sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/16.1/model_publishing/dynchart_with_json.html

Configure "Perspectives". From the Start Tab and in the "All Windows" Group/Panel, select "Settings". Here you can configure various perspectives for you and other users. In the "Perspective Sets" dialog box, select "Help" button to get information from Sparx. Or use this link: sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/16.1/modeling_fundamentals/techno_sets.html If you have custom Perspectives in one model, you can publish them by exporting them as a set to file and importing them into other models. Instructions to do this are in that page link above. Go to the "Publish Custom Perspectives" section. There is also the "Manage Model Options" dialog found in the Settings Tab in Model group for "Options". But this is getting into MDG Technologies and I will talk about that in a future video pertaining to MDG. I will add a video, or more, for this Perspectives subject to our queue. Thanks for asking 😀

I am talking about the Toolbox, not perspectives. Sparx didn’t answer my question in the Webinar earlier this week. If you don’t want a user to see “Simulate” ribbon why should they see the “Simulate” section in the Toolbox. We have no need for “Governance”, “Charts”, “Dynamic Viewpoints” and “Documents” in the toolbox either. Would love to get rid of them. They are there regardless of the type of diagram the user has opened. Tough problem to solve 😊

@@mne9476 Apologies for the late response. Now getting caught up on this channel. Wow!! Great question! So you want to remove certain things from existing Toolboxes? Let me know. For now, let me make some assumptions this is what you need. Each "Toolbox" is part of an MDG (Model Driven Generation) deployment. You can create "Custom Toolbox Profiles" by building your own MDG. If you go to "Settings" tab, and under Model group select "Options", then MDG Technologies, you can see your current MDGs Required and Disabled. If you create, deploy, and distribute your own MDG, it would show here. This is an advanced subject, which is planned much later, but let me see what I can start earlier. If you want to get a jump on the subject around MDG Builder, go to Start Page and select "Create from Patterns". Select from list "MDG Technology Builder", and then "Starter Template". Read the documentation provided. If you want, create a package to play in, let's call it "MDG Learning". In that package, select "Create Model(s)" button at the bottom. This will create a learning sandbox for you to play in. NOTE: DO NOT do this in a formal project. Instead, create a Sparx instance solely for this learning. Best Practice: Before you start, take a snapshot of your current configurations (e.g. Preferences, Settings, etc.). As your current configuration may impact all experiences in your Sparx Install if you mess things up 😅. Again, I will put an "MDG Introduction" video in our queue, but not sure when we will publish. Thanks again for the comment and question.

@@UMLOperator Thank you. I have 14 architects that have never used Sparx EA (or any other modeling tool for that matter.) And I am trying to "dumb it down" for them. I can easily get rid of the Develop, Simulate, Execute, Construct, and Specialize ribbons. I would like to remove Governance, Dynamic Viewpoints, Charts, and Simulation from the Toolbox. For now, I am telling them to ignore everything below Common Relationships ... lol

@@mne9476 I understand. Let me do a quick video on "Sparx EA from a Minimalist Perspective".

Yeah, I get asked this a lot. Right now, we do not have file sharing set up. Most of my files we demo, have proprietary data in them, so I need to go back and clean that up. We will open our Online Training Platform this year behind a paywall, but I will have some free access there for some file sharing. For the past year, since we start UMLO TH-cam, we have been focused on our paid clients where I provide videos and content on their secure servers. This takes most of our time these days, but as I get more "retired" 😀, I will invest more time here for all of you. Once we start the online training, that comes with sharing the training material, but it's now free. We planned on running UMLO on Discord, but that must be moderated and we do not currently have the people capacity to do that, because we are so busy right now. I will keep you posted as we progress this year. Thanks again for asking.

@@UMLOperator Thanks UML Operator! Your videos are a life saver for me. How to I subscribe to the paid service? Can you provide the link? Thanks, J

I can't wait to get to Scripting! But the team is trying to keep me focused on the main objective of "Model-Driven Anything". We are getting ready to release the multi-part portion relevant to "Design" right now, with a following of "Testing"... and then I can finally get into the simple Scripting we use. I am interested in what you want to use Scripting for. Are you using any of the canned scripts from Sparx today? In the current series, we have been doing everything manually because we didn't want to rush into automation. Great suggestion about putting the Scripting Videos in their own Playlist. We will do that. Our first video, planned on Scripting, will be on automating the building of Project Packages and package structure when starting any project or effort. The second video will be on adding Tagged Values to an element. The third video planned, will be on bringing Applications in from an Application Repository maintained by OurCo (our fictitious company). Most of the scripts we build are using VBScript, but later we will get into JavaScript. That's the plan so far. Thank you for the comment and asking 🙂

@@UMLOperator Thanks UML Operator! Your planned videos for scripting sounds great. The canned scripts in EA are a good start for me, but I wanted to learn enough with JavaScript to write my own scripts. At this moment, looking at tutorials for how to extend the capability of EA with scripting is my desire. Thanks! J

@@johnkhan174 Your welcome. I talked to my team and while we start the Design portion (Part 1) of the MDA series on Tuesday, I will release the first of the Scripting Series next Thursday.

I spoke with my team and we will publish "Scripting Series Kickoff" video on Thursday 8/22. NOTE: this is early and the Series will follow the MDA Series later. Hopefully this will get you and others started until we can dig in. Keep a look out for notification when published :)

@@UMLOperator Awesome!! Thanks for the continued support for the community!! J

You're welcome 😃...Yikes, I usually don't watch my videos before production, as my team does this. I kept saying "File" for Chart Type and meant to say "Pie". Sorry about that 🤨

@@UMLOperator It's okay sir😁. Sorry that I missed your reply.

Yes. I kicked that off in July, when I published "Introduction to Sparx Dashboards and Charts" (link: th-cam.com/video/ERSSL988Crk/w-d-xo.html), and this is in the "Model-Driven Anything" Playlist (link: th-cam.com/play/PLB12uLQxqtuVJQYxCsmnsTWnq5YjwGT-X.html. As we advance in this channel, I look to build a Playlist specifically around Analytics and Advanced Analytics, using Sparx and PowerBI to mine data from various sources and build Visual Analytics for Dashboards. However and right now, I add bits/pieces as we are doing various projects demos in the channel. NOTE: I may include Dashboard, Chart, and Analytics videos in "Reporting" playlist as well. The reason I/we use Sparx is not as much around Diagrams as it is around "data", or Model-Driven Data. Today, we collect data in many Data Stores (e.g., from Sparx and other sources), then mash it up to create more powerful Visual Analytics and Reports. This data becomes even more valuable as we get into training our Learning Models and AI to predict and prescribe outcomes. Thanks for asking and we look forward to getting to those subjects. While I am currently retired, I am still working with companies...mostly people I have known for years, which takes up a great deal of my time, and this channel is still a hobby 😀. Right now, I am just trying to "pay it forward" and share what I know with the next generation of modelers. I am still learning from others. Happy Modeling my friend, and keep the great comments, feedback, and suggestions coming. I want to focus on what your needs are. Our content queue is very long and deep and sometimes struggle on what to do next 🤓

Quick question before my next meeting... do you have specific Chart(s) and Data you are looking for?

@@UMLOperator We're so moved by your passion, sir. Keep educating us.

@@UMLOperator As Shown in this video, just a Pie chart and Column Chart driven by EA data is enough sir.

@@AkashSujikumar And please keep educating me 😀. I have found in all my years, that "sharing" is often the best way to be educated, find new things, and validate an idea(s) or direction. So THANK YOU!!

Thank you! Sounds like you found my Playlist on BPMN, th-cam.com/play/PLB12uLQxqtuU-Zo3OwdbqnfTdBisgN6X9.html. In that playlist, there is a video using Sparx EA and Camunda, th-cam.com/video/g2Olfmd9jpA/w-d-xo.html, titled "BPMN 2 Sparx EA Examples - Part 5". In that video, I connect one of my favorite BPMN/BPEL platforms, Camunda, for deploying BPMN models with Sparx EA, and show "round-trip engineering" of models between two different platforms. Depending on what company I am supporting, I usually recommend modeling BPMN in Camunda and documenting in Sparx EA. We have a video series, coming up, that designs APIs and relevant services in Sparx, while implementing BPMN/BPEL in a platform such as Camunda. This current series, focuses on a project example where we are building a RESTFul API, followed by a series on designing Microservices. As you know, BPMN can be used for flow automation wrapping such services. Please let me know, after watching those videos, what you think and what problems you are trying to solve. I am interested in what BPMN tooling you are using today. Thanks again.

​@@UMLOperator thanks for answer. I watched ur videos. Problem is that my company dont have Camunda license. In free version u can`t run your process. I am a bit new with architekture of system, becouse atm i am working as IT PM, and trying to learn and switch my job. After watching this videos i am looking for more examples of full builded system with BPMN for business justification and UML for developers. I am trying to use Sparx EA, and i mostly trying to solve problems which chat gpt given to me as a junior/mid architect it

@@ugoblina8111 You are most certainly welcome! There are many open source alternative (so called free), such as ActiveBPEL, Bizagi Modeler, and a few others. However, I have only used Camunda and ActiveVOS. Just be careful of what you download! Always make sure sites and providers are established and safe. I suggest, since you are learning, to use ChatGPT. I talk about this in th-cam.com/video/SLvhbaZscyg/w-d-xo.html, Learn Modeling with ChatGPT. In ChatGPT, you can ask all sorts of learning questions on any subject (e.g., "what software translates my BPMN to BPEL and deploys"). All of my students and architects, use ChatGPT. While I am semi-retired after 30+ years of IT and Development, I am envious of the younger generation 😊. While learning, feel free to ask questions in this channel, and I will try to answer. But note, while I program in many languages, and deploy in Data Centers and Cloud, I do not teach Software Development in this channel. I wish I had the time 😀

@@UMLOperator thanks for ur time and keep going with new series :)

Thank you for the post. Your question helped a few other modelers as well.

Great question!!! Did you the "diagram" reference in your custom report template? If so, are you, from the diagram properties under "Document Generation Options", "Exclude image from Documentation", do you have this box checked? Let me make a quick video to show what I am asking and talking about. I may have this video out later today after a few other tasks. Thanks for asking as I get the question often about adding or hiding diagrams from reports.

The video, "Diagrams in Custom Sparx Reports", will be published Thursday after approval.

@@UMLOperator Thank you for your response! I have the following sections checked in my custom report: Package - Package element - Diagram - - Element - Element - - Child elements - Child packages Yes, the "Exclude image from Documentation" is NOT checked.

@@UMLOperator Amazing, thank you so much! I can't wait to see it 👍

I have sent you an e-mail containing a few screenshots, for clarification

Sure. I have added it to the queue. I have several requests ahead of that, but in the meantime, go to the EAExample file provided in Sparx and select Systems Modeling from the "Getting Started" page. There are a ton of examples for SysML 1.5 there. Sparx supports 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.5, but not SysML 2.0. My focus will be on 1.5. For many System Engineers/Architects, this is enough. NOTE: SysML is an advanced modeling subject, so I would only touch on this subject at a high level in TH-cam. If you have particular use cases in mind, let me know. For example, do you work on Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR)? Do you work with Hirarchical Systems Use Case Models (HSUV)? Are you focus on the full breadth of SysML or a light blend of SysML and UML and/or ArchiMate? Fun Subject 😀...Thanks so much for asking.

@@UMLOperator Hello UMLOperator: Thank you for accommodating my request (in whatever capacity you have time for). My ideal set of tutorials for learning EA SysML tools would be: 1. Review of EA SysML tools for each of the 8 diagrams (Block Definition Diagram, Internal Block Diagram, Package Diagram, Requirements Diagram, Use Case Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Activity Diagram, State Machine Diagram, and Parametric Diagram). 2. Walk through an simple example project that uses all 8 diagrams (each diagram construction can be as simple as possible; just as a demonstration). 3. Demonstrate a simulation that pulls information from several of the project diagrams. There are several online (free) tutorials, but they all use Camero Systems Modeler. But I want to understand the nuances of using the EA toolbox. I am OK with whatever depth of coverage you have time for. Thanks!!! J