EA - Table template for single element manipulation - enterprise-architect

Question

I'm trying to design a template that generates a document based on the following Diagram.
For each System (1 or 2) there is a Chapter, which will be further populated with subchapters for every "Element type C".
Example of chapter structure
The template I'm using is this one:
And it calls a table:
While scripting the fragment of this, for each element type C, I'm checking the connection type ( connection Y) to see if the element is related and can be added to the bottom half of the table. If so, the ID of element Type B is added to an XML structure.
The code I'm using is the following:
function arrange_data_in_xml(objectid) {
//Get the repository type
var repotype = Repository.RepositoryType();
//Create the xml structure
var xmlDOM = new COMObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.6.0");
xmlDOM.validateOnParse = false;
xmlDOM.async = false;
var node = xmlDOM.createProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'");
xmlDOM.appendChild(node);
var xmlRoot = xmlDOM.createElement("EADATA");
xmlDOM.appendChild(xmlRoot);
var xmlDataSet = xmlDOM.createElement("Dataset_0");
xmlRoot.appendChild(xmlDataSet);
var xmlData = xmlDOM.createElement("Data");
xmlDataSet.appendChild(xmlData);
var part1A = Repository.GetElementSet(sqlquery, 2);
//Session.Output(part1A.Count)
//This cycle will iterate over each Element Type B
for (var i = 0; i < part1A.Count; i++) {
var ElementTypeBrow = ""
var countElementTypeB = 0;
Session.Output("DEBUG 0 " + part1A.GetAt(i).ElementID + " -- " + part1A.GetAt(i).Name + " -- " + objectid)
var xmlRow = xmlDOM.createElement("Row");
xmlData.appendChild(xmlRow);
var xmlName = xmlDOM.createElement("Object_ID");
xmlName.text = part1A.GetAt(i).ElementID;
xmlRow.appendChild(xmlName);
var xmlName = xmlDOM.createElement("ElementTypeCName");
xmlName.text = part1A.GetAt(i).Name;
xmlRow.appendChild(xmlName);
for (var k = 0; k < part1A.GetAt(i).TaggedValues.Count; k++) {
var tv = part1A.GetAt(i).TaggedValues.GetAt(k);
if (tv.Name == 'Proprety X') {
var xmlName = xmlDOM.createElement("ElementTypeC.TagValue1");
xmlName.text = tv.Value;
xmlRow.appendChild(xmlName);
} else if (tv.Name == 'Proprety Y') {
var xmlName = xmlDOM.createElement("ElementTypeC.TagValue2");
xmlName.text = tv.Value;
xmlRow.appendChild(xmlName);
}
}
for (var j = 0; j < part1A.GetAt(i).Connectors.Count; j++) {
var connector = part1A.GetAt(i).Connectors.GetAt(j);
if (connector.Stereotype == 'Connection type Z') {
var xmlName = xmlDOM.createElement("ElementTypeC.TagValue3");
xmlName.text = Repository.GetElementByID(connector.SupplierID).Name;
xmlRow.appendChild(xmlName);
} else if (connector.Stereotype == 'Connection type Y') {
var xmlName = xmlDOM.createElement("ElementTypeC.TagValue4");
xmlName.text = Repository.GetElementByID(connector.ClientID).Name;
xmlRow.appendChild(xmlName);
} else if (connector.Stereotype == 'Connection type X'') {
var ElementTypeB = Repository.GetElementByID(connector.SupplierID)
//Check if the ElementTypeB is connected to the current interface
if (check_interface(ElementTypeB.ElementID) == objectid) {
//Session.Output("DEBUG 1 " + part1A.GetAt(i).Name + " - " + ElementTypeB.Name)
var ElementTypeBalias = ""
if (ElementTypeB.Alias != "") {ElementTypeBalias = " (" + ElementTypeB.Alias + ")"}
ElementTypeBrow = ElementTypeB.Name + ElementTypeBalias + " \n" + ElementTypeBrow
countElementTypeB = countElementTypeB + 1
}
}
}
//Session.Output("DEBUG 1 " +ElementTypeBrow + " - " + countElementTypeBs + " - " + ElementTypeB.Name)
var xmlName = xmlDOM.createElement("ApplicableElementTypeB-Hyperlink");
if (countElementTypeBs > 1) {
xmlName.text = ElementTypeBrow.trimStart();
} else {
xmlName.text = ElementTypeB.ElementGUID+ElementTypeBrow;
}
xmlRow.appendChild(xmlName);
}
return xmlDOM.xml;
}
The problem that I'm having now is the result list of elements is taken as one, ie all of the elements of the bottom half of the table are as one.
Is there a way to manipulate each element individually (for example create a hyperlink for each entry)?
I've tried to rearrange the XML stucture. But the problem remains.

Answer 1

Fragments like this expect there contents in the form of a table, with rows and columns.
Currently you are only returning a single row, but somehow you would like to split the different values for ElementTypeBName-Hyperlink into different rows.
I think you have two possibilities here:
Return each ElementTypeBName-Hyperlink element with a different name e.g. ElementTypeBName-Hyperlink1, ElementTypeBName-Hyperlink2,... and then use each of those in your table template.
Downside of this approach is that it isn't flexible at all, and only useful if you have more or less the same number of ElementB names.
Split your template into two templates. One template for the upper part, and one for the lower part.
Another observation is that you are taking the complicated (and slow) route. For requirements like this, it's much easier to create an SQL template instead of a script template.