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To be able to export/import diagram information using xmi/xmldi

The customer wants to be able to import and export diagram information using XMI[DI]. At the moment this is not supported only XMI.
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to do headless batch publish

Rational Rose Web Publisher has a command line interface that enables you to publish models using a batch processor. (An attached document contains more details on this.) A set of similar functionality should be supported by the SDP-based products...
over 19 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Undo should only care about the view in focus

UNDO does not care about Focus - it should not be possible to "undo" entered text that is typed in a view that is hidden.
almost 7 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

Include model elements' from other models properties in a web published model

Currently, after you web publish a particular model that has elements that belong to other models, you will only be able to access the properties of the model elements that belong to the model that is web published and not the properties of the mo...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to search for types inside a given package

The dialog to select types for attributes/operation parameters allows the user to Search for Type names.This request is to introduce the ability to search for all the types contained inside a Package.Additionally, the request is to be able to show...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Publish APIs to allow users to create Property Pages where they can select Model Elements

There is no public API and detailed documentation to help users create a custom property page where the users can select a Model Element (including Diagrams).
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Ability to adjust the line height in the rich text documentation

There is no setting to change the whitespace line height in the rich text editor. Currently, if you type a line in a model element's rich text Properties > Documentation and then press ENTER, the cursor will appear, not on the next line, but ra...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to hide folders from the Project Explorer

This is a request to be able to optionally hide all the project subfolders from the Project Explorer.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Allow Stereotype properties to be of type Diagram

When creating a custom profile, it is not possible today to associate a stereotype property with a Diagram.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Expose internal API to compute configuration properties for all model resources

At the moment, there is no public API in Rational Software Architect (RSA) to allow you to calculate model resource properties to be added to the transformation configuration files. This calculation is currently done by the configuration editor it...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release