It outputs a plain text document together with repository artifacts specified in the template and taken from the repository. An optional profile may be specified to instruct RepoDoc to post-process the document with a third party software like Asciidoctor or Pandoc. RepoDoc uses plain text templates and an easy to learn Liquid template language.
It also offers new possibilities when iterating repository like multiple iterations, custom loops, conditional expressions and more. Document only elements you need and when you need them. Write logical conditions based on name, type or number of child elements. No more empty sections or tables in the output document. Iterate and document your repository items multiple times. Create requirements section first and then add a use case section. Everything aligned in a single document.
Output images or artifacts to individual files. Export data in different formats to multiple files. Walk through the connections for elements and diagram objects and document important ones. Analyze and document impacts with recursive templates. RepoDoc uses plain text Liquid templates that are ideal for version control system. Track changes in your templates and tag them easily. Select another template or write quickly your own with an easy to learn language.
Find out more about RepoDoc at repodoc. Even when your development team is agile, proper documentation is still vital for complex solutions. Quite frankly, most of the IT systems developed in-house are complex and closed — they are developed by handful of people who know them inside out but no one else in the organization knows how they work — just image what would happen if they are gone? Usually, documentation is written by Business Analysts, System Analysts and Architects as a text documents in Microsoft Word with a set of UML diagrams exported from some modeling tool.
It is a terrible but extremely popular way of documenting IT systems for many reasons which are not in the scope of this article. Fortunately, this mundane and unproductive task can be easily automated even for complex and robust templates.
From this article you will learn how to use Sparx Enterprise Architect to created advanced template for Use Case Specification that can be easily used for documentation generation by any member of your team.
I have following, very simple setup of the repository in Enterprise Architect left picture. This setup is focused on the Business Analysis and not System Architecture but this does not matter in context do document generation.
The important thing is that the model in Project Browser is presented in the tree-like structure and this approach is also passed on the Document Generation functionality internal part of EA responsible for report generation.
The problem is, that Document Generator can access only elements within selected branch. So in our case it has access only to contents of the Front Office package. Well, at least simple Document template can not. But what to do if we want to generate UseCase Specification document that also includes Requirements realized by each UseCase and Mockups? Well, there are many solutions. Just think what would happen if you would like to document Requirements or Processes — you would have to change the structure for each Template.
To solve this problem, Sparx engineers added Virtual Documents functionality. This is extremely powerful method of generating documentation which allows us to build one big document out of many parts. True Romance from Edraw. Start Now. Editable Enterprise Architecture Diagram Templates. Enterprise architecture diagram templates are very effective for your projects.
This article will show you some general and common enterprise architecture templates which are very useful both for employers and employee. In the 'Copy Template' field, click on the drop down arrow and select either:.
The 'Template Group' determines the organization of document templates in the Resources window. You cannot create a template of a specific type and assign it to the standard group of a different type. For example, you cannot specify a Fragment and select to save it in the Cover Page folder. It either goes to a user-created group that you select or is automatically redirected to the Fragment folder.
To make changes to an existing template, click on the template name and then click on this button. To import custom templates that were previously saved to batch XML files that is, through the 'Export Reference Data' option , click on this button. The 'Import Reference Data' dialog displays. In the 'Select Datasets to Import' panel, click on the required datasets:.
Click on the Import button to import the templates. The names of the imported templates are added to the list on the 'Templates' tab. If the template you want to import is a single, external file not in a batch file you can instead open a template and use a different option to import the file into that template. This file provides a checklist format for the tasks required to conduct an Enterprise Architecture iteration.
This file provides an example Business Executive Sponsor commitment letter. This file provides an example of a possible Enterprise Architecture report, using the Toy Story example Enterprise Initiatives generated by the Enterprise Architecture Enabler. This thorough application system assessment will give your executives key, consistent information to support decisions on existing and planned systems.
This is a key reference for executives as they lay out their budgets and business plans for the Enterprise Architecture Initiatives across the upcoming years. This guide defines the many fields that the application systems' health assessment document tracks per instance. This high level description and diagram discusses the importance of defining acronyms, terms and enterprise specific jargon to clarify the language for Enterprise Architecture artifacts to a common, consistent voice across Business and IT.
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