EA Navigator

The EA Navigator is a free and open-source (BSD License) add-in for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect that makes the life of any Enterprise Architect user a lot easier.

It allows for quick navigation between different elements in a model, especially between those elements that are not easily found using the standard EA features.

Using the dockable add-in window it retains a history of the 50 last selected model elements, and shows the important related elements at a glance.

The EA Navigator is (currently the only) part of the Enterprise Architect Toolpack

It allows you to navigate between:

• Operations and Sequence diagrams
• Operations and their implementation (Behavior)
• Operations and CallOperationActions
• Types and Parameters
• Types and Attributes

And to any Fully Qualified Name (FQN) that has been copied to the clipboard.

Prerequisites

• Enterprise Architect 9.0 or higher
• .NET framework 4.0

Download

EA Navigator download page

Usage

Once installed there should be a new menu option Navigate in the Add-Ins/Extensions menu.

If this option is not visible then there must have gone something wrong during the installation.

The EA Navigator will now show its functions depending on the type the element that is selected. You can either access its function using the main menu, or using the right-click context menu.

In order to enable the “docked window” feature of the EA navigator 2.0 check the option Extensions|Add-In Windows

The Navigator window will now show up somewhere in your application

Below is a list of available functions depending on the type of the selected element each of these options can also be called from the context menu when right clicking an element in the project browser or on a diagram.

All

• To FQN
  Selects the element that matches the node path (FQN) in the clipboard. This function is only available from the menu, and not from the add-in window.
• Owner
  Selects the owner of the selected element

 All Except diagrams

• … Tags
  Shows the elements referenced by the owned “RefGUID” style tagged values.
  
  These tagged values translate to the following options in the EA Navigator window

• Referencing Tagged Values
  Navigates to the opposite direction of the … Tags. Shows all RefGUID style tagged values that reference the selected element
  .

Operation

• Diagrams
  Shows all sequence diagrams that contain a message calling this operation or contain an Action that calls this operation.
• Parameter Types
  Shows all types of the parameters of this operation.
• Calling Actions (not for messages)
  Shows the CallOperationActions calling this operation
• Implementation
  Shows the diagrams owned by the behavior of this operation.

Message (in sequence diagram)

• Operation
  Select the called operation in the project browser.
• Diagrams
  Shows the sequence diagrams for the called operation?
• Parameter Types
  Shows the parameter types for the called operation
• Implementation
  Selects the Behavior element for the called operation in the project browser and opens all diagrams owned by this Behavior.

Classifier

• Dependent Attributes
  Shows all attributes that use the selected classifier as type
• Dependent Parameters
  Shows all parameters that use the selected classifier as type

Attribute

• Type
  Shows the type of the attribute.

Sequence Diagram

• Operations
  Navigate to all operations called on the diagram.

Open Diagrams dialog

When the function Diagrams is selected the Open Diagram dialog will open

From this dialog you can select the diagrams you wish to view and click the Open button to open the selected diagram in EA.

You can also double-click on a single diagram, which will also open the diagram.

Select Elements dialog

The Select Elements dialog will be shown if a list any other type of elements need to be shown.

Clicking the Select button, or double-clicking an element in the list will select that element in the project browser.
Elements that are grayed-out are non-selectable elements such as primitives.

Other Resources

• Blog posts about EA Navigator
• EA Navigator downloads
• Source Code on GitHub
• Enterprise Architect Add-in Framework
• UML Tooling Framework