Hi Peter!
> Subject: Re: Problem with specialization using the Archetype Editor > From: peter.gummer at oceaninformatics.com > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:38:51 +1100 > To: openehr-technical at lists.openehr.org > > pablo pazos wrote: > > > I'm testing archetype specialization using the AE, but I can't find a way > > to redefine a constraint of the parent archetype inside the specialized one. > > The problem is that the AE doesn't show the nodes of the parent archetype > > on the specialized one. > > > Hi Pablo, > > AE is currently still stuck on ADL 1.4, so it doesn't support differential > archetypes as defined in ADL 1.5. > > Therefore, when you work on a specialised archetype in AE, you will see the > parent's nodes only if they were copied from the parent archetype. This works > okay (more or less) as long as the specialised archetype was created when > work on the parent archetype had already been completed. On creating the > specialised archetype, everything is copied from the parent. Where it fails, > however, is that if there have been further modifications to the parent > archetype, after the specialised archetype was created, the new changes don't > magically appear in the specialised archetype: someone has to copy those > changes manually from the parent. > I think it would be better if the AE copies the parents nodes into the specialized archetype when the AE user clicks on "File > Specialize", of course, only when the ADL version is 1.4.Manual copying is error prone. What do you think? > This is a maintenance problem. Fixing this is one of the main benefits of ADL > 1.5. > > By the way, Pablo, I think you mentioned recently that you were still using > AE 2.2.779. There have been a lot of improvements to how AE handles > specialisation since then, so I recommend that you install the latest > release. (Although it won't fix problems intrinsic to ADL 1.4, of course.) > I have that update in my TODO list :) it is very kind of you to remember that, thank you. > Peter > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at lists.openehr.org > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20130110/6c20ad48/attachment.html>
