Pre-defined tag type – URL, not formatting as link

[Ken Norcross]

I’ve never noticed before that you can give a tagged value a type of “URL”!
Anyway, I’ve added the code to print them as a proper URL into 3.3.10.6, which is now available on the website. Thanks Ken.

[Ken Norcross]

Thanks for the quick fix, really appreciate the responsiveness and support.

(Not sure what happened to my original post, I don’t see it anymore, and to me at least I see your reply text as posted by me!)

• This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by Ken Norcross.

[Ken Norcross]

I picked up 3.3.11.0 today and installed. I tested the tag type URL but I do not see any difference the tag value is still just plain text in my Word output.

[eadocX Support]

That’s odd. That was the first bit of this release I built. I’ll check it ….

[eadocX Support]

I have checked this again, it it works OK for me in 3.3.11.
I am adding a link to the Notes of an element, adding a link using the (World+Link) icon, then adding Type = “Web Site”, address = “http://store.eadocx.com”.
eaDocX prints this in the Notes/Description field as a hyperlink to store.eadocx.com.
Did I misunderstand what you wanted ?

[Ken Norcross]

Yes, we have a misunderstanding.

I’m not sure what happened to my original post in this thread, but I am talking about a URL in a sparx pre-defined tagged value type of URL.

See here down the page: http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/9.3/standard_uml_models/predefinedtaggedvaluetypes.html

The URL in the notes you fixed for me a while back when I had the trial version (thanks!)

To try the tagged value type of URL you have to go to Settings>UML Types and define a new tagged value type with the detail of:

Type=URL;

[eadocX Support]

Ah – I see – I’ll have a look at that one as well…..

[eadocX Support]

This seems to work as well.
I needed to put [code]”https://store.eadocx.com”%5B/code%5D as the hyperlink, but that printed fine – I had fixed this as well.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 8 months ago by eadocX Support.

[Ken Norcross]

I am using “https://”, but I just tried “http://www.google.com” to be sure and it prints as plain text.

(edit: the google link above has http:// in front of it)

Not sure what the difference is here, maybe a Word option?

If I go to the tagged values window of an element and select my tag, there is a small button to the right with “…”, if I click that button the browser opens on my URL, so I know the URL is good and that Sparx knows it is a URL type tag.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 8 months ago by Ken Norcross. Reason: sample link text hides http://

[eadocX Support]

…and that’s the indication which I use to make sure I format it as a URL, not regular text.
I can make it work with http and https in from of the URL, so i’m a bit lost as to what the issue is ???

[Ken Norcross]

I am delivering this tag as part of a custom Sparx MDG, so I tried a new tag defined using Settings>UML Types, added the tag to an element by hand, but same result.

Didn’t expect a difference but just trying to think of possible differences.

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