Advanced features of Rational XDE model import

In some exceptional cases, you may need to have more control over how models and profiles are imported, beyond the default import behavior of the Rational® XDE Model Import wizard. The advanced features adds two additional buttons to the last page in the wizard that allow you to override default model import capabilities.

When you use the advanced features flag, the last page of the wizard includes a new Advanced Features area with the following two buttons: Write import data and Read import data. One usage scenario for the advanced features occurs when the Rational XDE Model Import wizard merges identical copies of XDE profiles into a single UML2 profile. However, the two options allow you to override the default wizard behavior to keep the profiles distinct after import. You may also want to use the advanced features capability if you want to preserve a complex folder hierarchy in a set of XDE models you are importing. You can edit the XDEModelImportDataFile.txt to update all destinations to reflect the desired hierarchy.

To use the advanced features functionality:

  1. To activate the advanced features, start the Rational modeling products using the following command-line argument: -vmargs -DXDE_IMPORT_ADVANCED_USER
  2. Walk through the wizard and specify the models and profiles (if applicable) that you want to import, define the projects to contain them, and specify the various diagram options.
  3. When you get to the last page of the XDE Model Import wizard (the Verification page), click Write import data to write the information gathered by the XDE Model Import wizard to a file called XDEModelImportDataFile.txt. This file is created in the same directory as the executable for the Rational modeling products.
  4. Edit the file with a text editor.
  5. When you are finished editing the file, click Read import data to read the file back into the XDE Model Import wizard.
  6. Make additional changes to the import data using the XDE Model Import wizard or click Finish to begin the model import.
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