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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...
almost 13 years ago in Heritage / 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 13 years ago in Heritage / 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 13 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA: Support for Compensation BPM Notation

The BPMN 2.0 Compensation specification is not supported in the BPM modeling feature of RSA. Reference: http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/, Section 10.6 (Compensation).
almost 13 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Add an option to the xmi importer to force creation of BaseProfile and UML Primitive Types

When importing an XMI file that represents a profile which does not contain a stereotype that makes use of the possibilities offered by the "ProfileBase" profile, "ProfileBase" isn't added to the list of its applies profiles. Similarly, when impor...
almost 13 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Allow the dialog to Select Element for Type to be resized

The dialog that is shown when you click on the "Select Type ..." button in the Properties view of an attribute or operation parameter, and that allows you to select the Type, has a fixed size. It does have vertical and horizontal scrollbars, but i...
almost 13 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Style of RichText tables should be configurable.

When creating a table in a RichText enabled field of RSA (for instance under the Documentation tab in the properties view), the table comes with a global border, and each single cell is also bordered. This gives the confusing impression that every...
almost 13 years ago in Heritage / 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 13 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 3 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...
about 13 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

RSA DAP: Realization links between conceptual and physical units not checking customized attributes

When you create realization links between conceptual and physical units, the realization link is meant to check that the values defined in the physical unit matches the values defined in the conceptual unit. However, it is only checking the predef...
about 13 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 3 Not under consideration