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Importing and exporting Reference Models
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. |
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| 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. |