Linked Documents in 3.3.7.0?

[Ken Norcross]

I am not able to get Linked Document content to appear in my generated documents, so I tried the simplest test case:

– new empty document

– add profile for Class
– set Heading Title as Name
– add one standard attribute, LinkedDocument

– add a new section with current selection
– current selection is a Class Element in the sparx tree
– this Class element has a name and a linked document with some simple text

– generate full document

The only output is the class name.

I am using version 3.3.7.0

(my true use case is to use linked documents to store screen shots of gui prototypes, and to include these images in a generated document)

[eadocX Support]

I’ve tried to reproduce this, following your steps from above, but can’t seem to break it.
Can you email the eaDocX XML profile to me, and I’ll have a look.
Not we generally recommend it, but if you want to look at the Profile, the bit which deals with the Class should look something like:

[Ken Norcross]

OK I see what is happening.

For a new document, when you generate you get presented with a save file dialog.

If I hit cancel, the linked document is not present in the output.

If I then do “file save as…”, and regenerate, then the linked document content is there.

Another scenario I tried is a new document, when presented with the save dialog, save to a file.

The first run, there is no linked document content, but regenerate again and the linked document content is there.

So I am having success, but there is just something funny about the very first time, and if you never save the document you never see the linked document content.

[Ken Norcross]

I also checke the profile xml, and I see the two statements you provided as an example.

[eadocX Support]

I Agree – that’s very strange. I’ll have a closer look.

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