Archi 4.7 Beta

Started by Phil Beauvoir, March 04, 2020, 13:02:43 PM

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Phil Beauvoir

Hi all,

just to let you know that Archi 4.7 Early Access 1 is available.

This is kind of like a pre-beta version. As we are still working on some features (custom display labels, graphical improvements and fixes) it makes sense to release an "Early Access" version so that you can try out the new features and fixes that we've implemented so far.

Amongst other things, a significant feature for Archi 4.7 EA is importing and merging an Archi model into another Archi model. This allows you to either merge one or models, or to create a reference model that you can initially import into a model, then maintain and update it separately and re-import it back into the target model adding new concepts and Views, or updating existing ones.

The Archi help documentation has more information, as does the Archi User Guide.

The download is here:

https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

Cheers!
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Hervé

Great functionalities, as always.

Thank you very much  ;D

Phil Beauvoir

Quote from: Hervé on March 04, 2020, 21:16:33 PM
Great functionalities, as always.

Thank you very much  ;D

Thanks Hervé.  8)

Don't forget, that we're also working on customised label presentation which is inspired by Hervé's Specialization plug-in - in fact some advice on implementation is needed ;-)  https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/576
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geoffrey

Exiting new features indeed.

How do you see the merging of a reference model comparing to the template functionality?

Phil Beauvoir

Quote from: geoffrey on March 10, 2020, 19:28:01 PM
Exiting new features indeed.

How do you see the merging of a reference model comparing to the template functionality?

The template is a starting point for a new model. Import/Merge can be used as a one-off combining of one or more models into one or, for the reference model, keeping it maintained separately, imported/merged with other models and when it's updated can be re-imported to update the objects in the target model.
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Phil Beauvoir

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Phil Beauvoir

Early Access 3 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

This version has preliminary support for text expressions in labels (like that in Herve's Specialization plug-in) see https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/576
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DaveVint

Looking forward to playing with this after my current deadline is out of the way!

Does the reference model capability play nicely with the coArchi plugin?

Cheers,

Dave

Phil Beauvoir

> Does the reference model capability play nicely with the coArchi plugin?

It's importing/merging from another model, similar to CSV import, so shouldn't do anything different.
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Phil Beauvoir

Early Access 4 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

This has more features for text expressions in labels and some bug fixes.
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Phil Beauvoir

Early Access 5 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

This has more features for text expressions and a new syntax for prefixes.

See https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/wiki/Label-Expressions
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Phil Beauvoir

Early Access 6 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

This has more features for text expressions and a few other fixes.

See https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/wiki/Label-Expressions
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Phil Beauvoir

Early Access is over and Archi 4.7 Beta 1 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

This beta release is available to test for last minute bugs before a full release. If necessary, further beta builds will be made.

Cheers,

Phil
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Phil Beauvoir

Archi 4.7 Beta 2 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

This build uses a different bundled JRE to fix this issue - https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/622

Cheers,

Phil
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