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Autumn 2013 Newsletter

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"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there..."*

Can you remember life before eaDocX?

When...

you had to be able to programme in order to print out the EA content you needed?
your EA documents looked different to all the other documents in your organisation?
creating and updating them took so long you had to put extra time into the project schedule when you were asked for something new?
everyone had to have the same document because it was too hard to get different views of the same information?

It's hard to believe things were ever that difficult. We can't remember it, because in the last 2 years we've been working with you to transform the documents you create from EA, and changing how you use EA in your business.
As well as working one-on-one with individual clients, we've also developed loads of new features. So the things eaDocX can do have expanded so much, and the documents you can create are so much better, that life before really does feel like a foreign country.

As it's the start of a new School year here in the UK we decided that now is a good time to take stock. So welcome to our school report:

Product Highlights

Since Autumn 2012 we have continued to develop eaDocX to make it even better at producing the documents you need.

The changes we have made fall into 2 categories:

Our ideas (which all came from you really):

Improved Quick Documents - eaDocX can be set to either read your whole model or just a package to produce an initial document
Phone Home - keeping you up-to-date with the latest releases
Model Expert - reads your model and creates a diagram of your meta-model to help you spot errors and inconsistencies
Extra Settings and Options to give you more control of your documents
Improvements to Table formatting including Landscape printing and use of Word table styles
Execution of named macros in Excel worksheets for automated report generation from EA data
Support for Microsoft Word 2013 and Excel 2013

...and Your ideas:

Suppress empty rows and columns in Matrix Reports
Use Word Table styles and symbols in Matrix Reports
Heading Style over-rides and extra Heading level support
'Per Repository' settings
Hidden profile (prevents accidental deletion)
Print realtionship TVs
Changes to printing of InstanceClassifiers
Ability to add fixed value attributes
Add cross references (with hyperlinks) to diagrams
Extended information saved about each document
Document using TVs on Connectors and Sequence Diagram messages
Document InformationItems
New Attributes available for StateFlow connectors
Copying of Element Reports and Relationship Matrix Reports
Refined Searches and inclusion/exclusion rules for Element Reports
Customised scope for EA searches
Custom sorting for sub-elements and relationship tables
Simplified Stereotype formatting
and more...

Take a look at our Forum to see what people are talking about at the moment.

* quote from "The Go-Between" by LP Hartley

Ty Gallu: Open for Business

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This month has seen the opening of the new Ability Engineering / eaDocX Head Office in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. On August 9th 2015 we were delighted to welcome dozens of colleagues, partners, friends and neighbours to the grand opening of "Ty Gallu".

Visitors not only saw our offices, but also the green technologies we have installed behind the scenes. WIth electricity generated by our own micro-hydroelectric scheme (when it rains) or photo-voltaic cells (when the sun shines), and heating from a biomass boiler using renewable wood pellets, our carbon-negative workspace is going to transform our working life as well as our impact on the planet.

NB The name "Ty Gallu" is Welsh, and can be translated either as "Ability House" or Power House". Both seem appropriate!

As part of the day, we were encouraged, challenged and blessed by these words of prayer from our local Methodist Minister:

"May all who share the life of work here grow in wisdom and grace, may they learn to love whatever is good and rejoice in Your creation. May all who meet with this business find a welcome, and truth and integrity."

So if you are passing by, we'd love to welcome you here in the Grwyne Fawr valley. The coffee pot is always on...

Here are a few shots of the place to whet your appetite.

Ty Gallu with Sugar Loaf in the background Croeso y Ty Gallu Photo-voltaic cells on the roof at Ty Gallu View of the terrace View from the terrace (Fort on hillside across the valley) View up the Grwyne Fawr

and finally: we have the internet too! And we have an internet...

Ian, Jackie and the eaDocX team

eaDocX in Paris and Brussels in September

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Tickets are available now for two EA User Group events in September 2015

The eaDocX team will be in Paris on September 17th and in Brussels on September 18th at the EA User group events, showcasing our new Collaboration edition.

The event in Paris is being hosted by VISEO, and not only will we be demonstrating all the latest features, Guillaume Finance of VISEO will also be giving a presentation of eaDocX Collaboration edition in French.

In Brussels, the presentations and demonstration will be in English.

In addition to meeting the people responsible for your favourite EA document generator, there will be lots of great presentations sharing best practice and user stories to help you make the most of Enterprise Architect.

Check out the full agendas and buy your tickets now at www.eausergroup.com.

See you there!

Stuttgart EA User Group Call for Speakers

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EA users are invited to submit presentations for the German/English language EA event being held on October 6th 2015 in Stuttgart, Germany.

For full information please visit www.eausergroup.com or see the Future events Stuttgart call for speakers.

Speaker submissions are possible until September 6th so don't delay!

EAUG September 2015

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Paris and Brussels EA Usergroup Tickets

ON SALE NOW

Paris = 17th September 2015
Brussels = 18th September 2015

Visit www.eausergroup.com for more information and to
book your place.

For just €75, join with other Enterprise Architect users for a day of practical insights, advice, experience and inspiration.
Attend either event and get all the content from both conferences as soon as it is available.

Note, the Paris event will mostly comprise French language presentations, the Brussels talks will be mostly in English.

The agenda for Paris is now confirmed...
...but there are still opportunities to submit a presentation for Brussels. So if you have a story to share, please contact us by August 18th.