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Topic Title: Create a symbol to behave like an extant symbol.
Topic Summary: I've created a custom symbol with custom image in SA. How do I make it behave like a lane symbol?
Created On: 29-Jun-2006 03:44
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 29-Jun-2006 03:44
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Duane Hennessy

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I've created a custom symbol in the SA USRPROPS file.

The symbol has a depiction of a custom WMF. It is assigned to the Business Process diagram.
How can I get it to behave like a Lane symbol in a Business Process Diagram? It at all.

symbol "Agency Role"
{
 defined by "Role"
 assign to "Business Process"
 depictions
 {
   diagram "13537.wmf"
 } rem "depictions"
 
 depictions
 {
  menu "13537.bmp"
 } rem "depictions"
} rem "Agency role"

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 29-Jun-2006 05:47
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Duane Hennessy

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Actually, failing my previous nutty idea here's what I am trying to do:

I want the ability to create multiple copies of a symbol within SA. So I will have two task symbols and two lane symbols to choose from but they will have different colours etc.

I'm using SA 10.22 so no colour settings within the USRPROPS that I know of. I cannot use DEPICT AS lane symbol etc.

The issue of colouring the symbols can probably be solved using a StyleSheet file.
The issue of doubling up on symbols is a different matter.

 



Edited: 29-Jun-2006 at 05:56 by Duane Hennessy
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 7-Jul-2006 07:23
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Duane Hennessy

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I did it with an admixture of the Stylesheet and USRPROPS. This gave the ability to have two differently coloured tasks with the same definition and symbol. The lane symbol cannot be duplicated no matter what so I'll use VBA to capture a lane event and decide on how to colour it.
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 17-Jul-2006 01:51
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Ian Souchard

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you can "reuse" swimlanes in any diagram type as follows (no need to create your own symbol). you can then attach whatever defintion type you want to the swimlane. e.g. diagram "xxx" { PROPERTY "Swim Lanes" { EDIT Text ListOnly LIST "Swim Lanes" DEFAULT "horizontal" HELP "Enable swim lanes by setting the orientation" } }
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 17-Jul-2006 01:57
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Duane Hennessy

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Thanks Ian, I'll check it out later.

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