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Importing and exporting Reference Models

Table of contents

1Steps

2Important Notes

3See Also

Model Expert Reference Models are just EA packages which contain regular EA content: elements, connectors and diagrams. With a few special tagged-values, but still regular EA things.

So, you can use existing EA features to move Reference Models between repositories.

Steps

  • Baseline them, to keep older versions, restore those baselines, and compare baseline versions
  • Save the RM package in an other version control tool
  • Save the RM package in the EA Reusable Asset Server (RAS)
  • Export them as XMI, and import them into other projects
  • Print them using tools like eaDocX or the EA RTF generator
  • Display them in other tools, such as Prolaborate

Important Notes

Replacing Reference Models When Model Expert links content in your model to a Model Expert Reference Model, it does it using the GUIDs of element & diagram types. So, if you import a Reference Model package and keep the GUIDs, then the imported model will REPLACE the current one.
Creating new Reference Models If you import it and use the ‘strip GUIDs’ option, then you’ll get a whole new Reference Model, which will not be linked to anything in your repository.

See Also

Finding Reference Models