Sunday, 19 May 2024

v4.3.d.Release (19-MAY-2024)

Focused on re-implementation of the auto-created package diagram - index support, designed to be able to auto-populate a model with a collection of auto-created diagrams that enable navigation/click-through to diagrams. 

Now available on github. Don't forget to rename top-level folder SysMLHelper without the version number before moving into Profiles folder. Also ensure that previous profile is not just renamed but removed from Share/Profiles completely (as Rhapsody will open first filename it finds rather than the explicit path to .sbsx).

The new layout is designed to work both with the enhanced tooltip but also in the Model Manager web-client, and gives the user the choice as to whether to recursively build the diagrams from the leaf up. Also took the opportunity to add another of the training manual pdfs. Module B gives an introduction to building function chains using internal block diagrams. Some minor filling out of the menus that allow quick creation of system architecture and feature function packages, including ability to select and apply stereotypes in the process.

V4.3.d.PreRelease (19-MAY-2024):

0823 20-APR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Re-implementation of package diagram - index support as a result of wider testing on real projects (F.J.Chadburn)

0824 05-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Advanced package diagram - index support to allow child diagrams of things like function blocks to listed recursively (F.J.Chadburn)

0825 09-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Removed listener to populate package diagram - index as not found to be robust with large models in call-back situation (F.J.Chadburn)

0826 12-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added new MBSE Method: Design Synthesis\Create Architecture Package Structure... menu to speed up new model creation (F.J.Chadburn)





0827 17-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added update project properties check to create architecture/feature/function package menus so they work if first thing done (F.J.Chadburn)






0828 17-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added new MBSE Method: Functional Analysis\Create Function Package Structure... menu to open new ways to build model structure (F.J.Chadburn)




0829 17-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Updated training labs with PracticalMBSE-BookI-InsulinPump-ModuleA-UseCasePackages-V2024-05-16-1401.pdf (F.J.Chadburn)


0830 17-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Updated training labs with PracticalMBSE-BookI-InsulinPump-ModuleB-FeatureFunctionPackages-V2024-05-17-1210.pdf (F.J.Chadburn)


0831 19-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Renamed package diagram - index menus to separate the create/update and ensure create works on SysML,Project (F.J.Chadburn)

0832 19-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added Query - Package Diagram - Index to ease finding and opening/deleting them by filtering the browser (F.J.Chadburn)




0833 19-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Increase robustness of package diagram - index creation with 9.0.2 by adding check that element is not a project (F.J.Chadburn)

0834 19-MAY-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added AutoCreated tag to package diagram - index creation and updating so that manually created diagrams are preserved (F.J.Chadburn)


Friday, 15 March 2024

v4.3.c.Release (15-MAR-2024)

Context patterns and associated tables, plugin methods, and browse hierarchy extensions to expose key model relationships.

This release adds some useful views and browsers, particularly around relationships between diagrams and requirements. For example, what requirements are present on which diagrams and vice versa. The browse hierarchy for requirements and diagrams required a bit of a workaround to show traceability on the owner of the activity/statechart but this seems to work well and acts to aggregate relations to the intrinsic owner anyway. 

V4.3.c.PreRelease (15-MAR-2024):

0808 12-FEB-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Initial support to extend update package diagram with context so that it works recursively to sub-packages (menu hidden) (F.J.Chadburn)

0809 29-FEB-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added getObjectNodesWithFlowTargets, getObjectNodesWithNoFlowoTargetsOrSources, getOutgoingFlowTargets, pluginMethods for table views (F.J.Chadburn)

0810 29-FEB-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added getObjectNodesWithFlowSources, getIncomingFlowSources pluginMethods for activity diagram table views (F.J.Chadburn)

0811 01-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added getRequirementsOnDiagram for use in context patterns (F.J.Chadburn)

0812 01-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added tablel - Requirements On Diagrams table layout to _TablesAndMatrices package as a base example of usage (F.J.Chadburn)

0813 01-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Changed Export requirements to csv for import into DOORS NG so local names are exported (log window reports if remote name different) (F.J.Chadburn)

0814 05-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Add a Browse Hierarchy > Browse Requirements On Diagrams browser option to menus for project (F.J.Chadburn)

0815 05-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added getDiagramsWithRequirementOn for context patterns/tables plus new Browse Hierarchy > Browse Diagrams With Requirements menu (F.J.Chadburn)

0816 05-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added action pin and object flow back on to the textual activity drawing toolbar (F.J.Chadburn)

0817 05-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added getDiagramsWithObjectsOn pluginMethod for context patterns/tables plus new Browse Hierarchy > Browse Usages With Requirements menu (F.J.Chadburn)

0818 06-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added properties so that profile's Browse Hierarchy sub-menus also work on Package right-click + changed menu names to make clearer (F.J.Chadburn)



0819 11-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Fix Browse Hierarchy > Browse Diagrams And Requirements On Them Rhp 8.3.1 -> 9.0.2 issue by listing reqts under ActivityDiagramGE/StatechartDiagram (F.J.Chadburn)

0820 11-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added explicit Table View - Diagrams And Requirements On Them table to the MBSE View right-click menu for all packages (F.J.Chadburn)




0821 11-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added explicit Table View - Requirements And Diagrams Theyre On table to the MBSE View right-click menu for requirement packages (F.J.Chadburn)


0822 15-MAR-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Added null parts check to Populate Parts helper as not working in generalisation context, where feature inherits from system block (F.J.Chadburn)


Friday, 26 January 2024

v4.3.b.Release (26-JAN-2024)

Welcome to 2024!

This release has some incremental improvements and was primarily cut to enable wider testing of new auto-package diagram population to make it easier to build navigation into the project browser, plus a useful table for reviewing requirements of function blocks in the context of the subsystems they are allocated to.

Now available on github. Don't forget to rename top-level folder SysMLHelper without the version number before moving into Profiles folder. Also ensure that previous profile is not just renamed but removed from Share/Profiles completely (as Rhapsody will open first filename it finds rather than the explicit path to .sbsx).

V4.3.b.PreRelease (26-JAN-2024):

0803 19-JAN-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Loosen software design package modelling so that you can hierarchically decompose software components (F.J.Chadburn)


0804 19-JAN-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Allow software components to own full, i.e. standard, ports (F.J.Chadburn)


0805 24-JAN-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Add new Subsystem to Function Block Requirements table for system architecture and subsystem packages (F.J.Chadburn)


0806 26-JAN-2024: ExecutableMBSE: First implementation of new Package Diagram - Index auto-creation capability and associated properties (F.J.Chadburn)



0807 26-JAN-2024: ExecutableMBSE: Ensure that Package Diagram - Index auto-creation properties are taken from package, rather than project, level (F.J.Chadburn)

Wednesday, 20 December 2023

v4.3.a.Release (20-DEC-2023)

Incremental improvements. Most notable are first introduction of package diagram - index diagram type as an optional basis for improving ability to have a starting point for users to navigate the model when they first open it. Also, ability to allow actors underneath system block so that it's easier to use allocate function function and scenarios where the system interacts with users. This coupled with some tweaks to default display options, and form-based creation of feature function packages, further improves usability of the function flow modeling method.

Now available on github. Don't forget to rename top-level folder SysMLHelper without the version number before moving into Profiles folder. Also ensure that previous profile is not just renamed but removed from Share/Profiles completely (as Rhapsody will open first filename it finds rather than the explicit path to .sbsx).

V4.3.a.PreRelease (20-DEC-2023):

0789 15-NOV-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Allow System Blocks to own Flow Connectors to open up options for direct connectors between flow ports in different subsystems (F.J.Chadburn)

0790 07-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: First implementation of Create Feature Package Structure... menu (F.J.Chadburn)






0791 11-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: First implementation of Index Diagram to assist with easing model navigation (F.J.Chadburn)


0792 11-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Update hep file so that general helpers like straightening lines work on new index diagram (F.J.Chadburn)

0793 12-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Added new Actors to Use Cases table for Actor packages (F.J.Chadburn)

0794 12-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Renamed Index Diagram to Package Diagram - Index to align a little closer to SysML terminology (F.J.Chadburn)

0795 14-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Added diagram menu to add trace links to requirements package prior to switching master from DOORS NG to local surrogates (F.J.Chadburn)

0796 14-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Added requirement package menu to switch master from DOORS NG to local surrogates on diagrams (based on trace link) (F.J.Chadburn)

0797 14-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Tweak to improve ordering in the context diagram menu, flows now at top as most commonly used (F.J.Chadburn)


0798 15-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Turned off Internal display of flow ports on function usages to give a more natural natural/flexible default (F.J.Chadburn)




0799 15-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Add AllocatedTo to the Compartments property for function usages so it appears by default when toggle to specification view on ibds (F.J.Chadburn)



0800 18-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Add ability for actors to be owned by system blocks so its possible to allocate functions they perform in a scenario (F.J.Chadburn)




0801 18-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Renamed function flow elements of Data Object to Item Usage to make more consistent, also aligns better with SysML 2 terminology (F.J.Chadburn)

0802 20-DEC-2023: ExecutableMBSE: Updated included tutorial doc to PracticalMBSE-BookI-InsulinPump-ModuleA-UseCaseStructure-V2023-12-20-1132.pdf (F.J.Chadburn)