Accessing InformationItem Description for flow

[Heather Wallace]

Hi,

In a document section that deals with a specific component, I want to add a table of the names and descriptions of data elements it passes via information flows to other components.

The relationship attributes allow me to put the name in a table (using the InformationItems option), but there is no InformationItem Description option.

I thought I would be able to handle the conveyed InformationItem as a related element, but there seems to be no way to navigate to the conveyed InformaitonItem.

Any suggestions?

Heather

[eadocX Support]

I see your problem.
This whole InformationItem thing is a corner of EA which I’ve not visited before.
As you say, you can print the InformationItem.name, or a hyperlink to the InformationItem, but these appear like attributes of the underlying connector, not elements in their own right.
I can’t quite see how to do this, as it upsets some quite fundamental parts of eaDocX.
One work around might be to use the Hyperlink option, then get eaDocX to print a Element Report, Cross-reference style, which will print all the items which you reference via the Information Item.
I’ll have another dig around for v3.4, but I’m not confident…..

• This reply was modified 12 years, 4 months ago by eadocX Support.

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