Known Issue: Date Format changes automatically when editing date in Prolaborate
The Lifecycle chart data vanish when user edit the date value of the lifecycle chart.
Description:
The Lifecycle chart displays stages such as Plan, Go Live, Active, and Sunset with corresponding date ranges indicating the start and end dates for each stage. However, the properties field for modifying dates only offers a single field rather than a range. If a user modifies any date field in the properties, it results in the removal of data from the lifecycle chart.
Possible Reason:
This problem is related to PCS V5.x. If the stereotypes is supported by PCS, the date format to be used is dd/mm/yyyy and for other unsupported stereotypes, the date format to be used is yyyy-mm-dd.
Workaround 1:
- Always set the date format to dd/mm/yyyy in Prolaborate general settings.
- When the users modify the date in a supported stereotype from Prolaborate, there won't be any impact on the roadmap.
- When the users modify the date in an unsupported stereotype from Prolaborate, the item will disappear from the roadmap. The workaround is to execute a script to modify the date formats of all the items in your EA database.
- When the users modify the roadmap from EA, the date format will be picked from your local machine and this also impacts the roadmap. Similar to the above scenario, the workaround for this is also to execute the script to modify the date formats.The script is also attached below for your reference.
- Please note that the script attached below must be executed in EA and you must mention the stereotype, tagged value, current date format, and the expected date format in order to update them accordingly. The steps to execute the script are outlined below,
- Navigate to Specialize>Tools>Script Library.
- Click on the Create New Group icon>New Normal Group and right-click on the new group and select New JavaScript
- Copy the contents from "Tagged Value Date Format Update" and paste it to the script in EA.
- Update the Stereotype, tag name, and date format (If required) in the script.
- Select the respective package and click on Execute script.
- This will update the date formats for the selected stereotypes.
Workaround 2:
- You can also consider changing your machine's date format to dd/mm/yyyy, so that EA (Enterprise Architect) can automatically adjust to this new date format.
- To avoid the user editing the date-tagged values in Prolaborate, we can remove the "write" access for the stereotypes by following the below steps. This will not allow the user to edit the tagged values. It will help you reduce the workaround process.
Step 1: Click the element in the properties open the form designer.
Step 2: Disable the "Read" access.
Reference:
Ticket ID: #8386
Subject: APM Lifecycle chart date range modification
Department: Sparx Platform Support
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