Content of views gets lined up

Started by hvn52, November 18, 2021, 11:37:50 AM

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hvn52

Hi,

Using Archi 4.8.1, I created a test model with views for Business, Application, Technology and Motivation. I saved them, closed all views and Archi. Then opened Archi and opened all views. Then I was surprised that the results were not as how I saved them. As an example, see the attachments.
I just downloaded & installed 4.9.1, but that made no difference.
The *wish-version is how I saved it and how I wished it would open, the other is how it did open. Did I do something wrong, or should I have done something that I didn't do when opening again?

Thanks

Phil Beauvoir

That sounds strange. Can you provide steps to reproduce this?
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hvn52

All steps:
1 close the Motivation view
2 select Motivation
3 select all elements in Motivation
4 right-click, select Generate View for ... and select e.g. Stakeholder
5 click OK

And all element positions are lined up vertically again. Considering your reaction, this isn't what is supposed to happen.

Phil Beauvoir

"Generate View for..." creates a new View with a default layout from selected elements. You then have to arrange the elements of the new View. Sounds like it's working as expected, but you are perhaps misunderstanding something?
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hvn52

#4
Quote from: Phil Beauvoir on November 18, 2021, 12:13:37 PM"Generate View for..." creates a new View with a default layout from selected elements. You then have to arrange the elements of the new View. Sounds like it's working as expected, but you are perhaps misunderstanding something?

Sounds like I do misunderstand something, but need to find out what.

Edit: ok, so a view is generated from whatever element and viewpoint you select. But how do I get a view of all elements from (in this case) Motivation that has no specific generated viewpoint but shows the elements as I pictured them?

Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie

Hi,

Quote from: hvn52 on November 18, 2021, 11:37:50 AM[...]
I saved them, closed all views and Archi. Then opened Archi and opened all views. Then I was surprised that the results were not as how I saved them.
[...]

There's only one single explanation: it didn't get saved, or you saved it as another file and opened the previous one.

A view generated by "Generate View for..." action has nothing special: it is created and then you manually edit it, so if you did it and saved it, you find it again when you reopen your model.

Regards,

JB
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Phil Beauvoir

Quote from: hvn52 on November 18, 2021, 12:20:22 PMEdit: ok, so a view is generated from whatever element and viewpoint you select. But how do I get a view of all elements from (in this case) Motivation that has no specific generated viewpoint but shows the elements as I pictured them?

The "Generate View For..." function is not intended to be the default way to create a View and add concepts to that View. The workflow is to create blank Views (right-click on the "Views" folder, New -> ArchiMate View) and then add elements to the Model Tree and drag and drop them to the View and/or drag and drop concepts from the Palette.
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