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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...
almost 12 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...
almost 12 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.
almost 12 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

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 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Support for SPRING Security and SPRING Caching

Capability in RSA for Spring Security and Spring Caching
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration