Dear fellow Archi users,
As more and more I use Archi and appreciate its advantages, my appetite for new advanced functions increases. Perhaps this is not an original idea, for which I apologize in advance, but please consider a new Archi functionality. Often you need to stereotyped a frequently occurring architecture element type by describing it with a specific set of properties. For example, motivation Driver stereotyped as a “risk” can be described by type, impact, probability, priority, status, or infrastructure Device stereotyped as a “server” can be described by number of cores, ram, hdd, operating system etc. To avoid multiple clicking of the same set of properties, property by property, it would be more efficient to define a named group (set) of properties (eg. "Risk" group or “Server” group ), pre-assign to the group some set of properties, and assign the entire group to the architecture element just by one click. Maybe it makes sense also to implement a predefined group assignment to a given type of elements in the context of the model as a model configuration, thus implementing some form of stereotyping mechanism?
You could as well add the "group" column in the _properties.csv to make group more functional in exported files.
What do you say
Regards,
Marbico