Columns Layout export

Question

Sparx Enterprise Architect offers the possibility to define custom layouts for list views in the package browser and to save these definitions. When exporting a Project file (*.eap) via xmi, these definitions are not included in the export-file and thus lost. I wonder whether there exists a way to transfer columns layout definitions between two EA-Projects.

Many thanks in advance for every hint!

Can you show where/how they are defined? I'd expected something in the Reference Data Export, but there's nothing on first view that targets in that direction. — qwerty_so
@Thomas You enter the package browser e.g. by choosing 'View as List' when right-clicking on a package in the projekt browser. All elements contained in the selected package (and its sub-packages) are shown as list then. Right-clicking on the list view offers an entry 'Columns Layout' where You may store and reload Your custom layouts. — smohren
@geert In %appdata% there is e.g. a rubric 'Search Data' where custom searches are stored - but unfortunately nothing about columns layout. The registry is another good idea; but I don't have access to the registry because I use the EA on a restricted workplace. So, I cannot check this suggestion by myself. Nevertheless, many thanks. — smohren

qwerty_so qwerty_so · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-16T08:56:09

As Geert suggested the layout is stored in the registry.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sparx Systems\EA400\EA\OPTIONS]

holds a key PKG_BRWSE_LAYOUTS with the comma separated list of profile names (so you better don't use comma in your profile name ;-).

The detailed information is stored in

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sparx Systems\EA400\EA\EA1200Workspace\BCGPGrids\EA_ELEMENT_LIST_<name>BCGPGrid-0]

where <name> is the according profile name.

For a sample layout here they looked like

"Columns"=hex:11,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
  00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00
"ColumnWidth"=hex:11,00,16,00,00,00,04,01,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,\
  00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,\
  00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00,50,00,00,00
"ColumnOrder"=hex:08,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,06,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,0d,00,\
  00,00,0e,00,00,00,0f,00,00,00,10,00,00,00
"Groupping"=hex:00,00
"LastFieldChooserPos"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"IsFieldChooserVisible"=dword:00000000
"IsFieldChooserThemed"=dword:00000001
"SortColumns"=hex:00,00

I have to leave that to you to decipher the coding used here. But for a pure ex-/import you probably don't need to do that.

Columns Layout export

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