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As a valued System Architect® customer, we want to let you know that a new version of System Architect has been commercially released. We continue to drive improvements to the product within themed areas to enable you to build and maintain a strategic, value-driven enterprise architecture.
System Architect 2025 – Version 11.4.12 – provides the following enhancements:
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Property-Level Access Control (PLAC) – In a major enhancement to the product, access control of the properties of definition, symbol, and diagram types is now available. PLAC is set in SA Catalog Manager, and provides functionality beyond existing role-based access control and instance-level access control.
PLAC enables you to set specific properties to be 'read-only' or 'invisible' to users or groups of users. This includes:
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Edit dialogs in System Architect and SA XT. |
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Displayable properties on symbols. |
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Available properties in SA Report Generator and its results in both System Architect and SA XT. Properties set as invisible will not be shown in the report builder list, nor will the property values be shown in the resulting report if the user runs an old report created prior to the permissions setting. |
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Frameworks and Methods – Enhancements include: |
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DoDAF 2: The SvcV-08 Services timeline diagram is now supported. In addition, the following matrices have been added: SvcV-3b Service Interface to Service Interface, SvcV-3a Systems-Services, SvcV-6 Services Resource Flow, and SvcV-3b Service to Service Interface. |
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UAF: The following matrices have been added: Sv-Tr Service Interface to Service Interface, Sv-Tr Systems-Services, Sv-Tr Services Resource Flow, and Sv-Tr Service to Service Interface. |
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NAF: The following matrices have been added: S1-P1 Service to System, S1-S1 Service to Service, S1-S1 Service Interface to Service Interface, and S1-S1 Services Resource Flow. |
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sysML: To support sysML, longer type names are now allowed in SA, up to 128 characters. In addition, abstract types now affect rules on how items are made active. Further, Requirement symbols now show their stereotype. |
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BPMN: BPMN Association connections have been changed to allow any connection between Process, Call Activity, Data Store, and Data Object - except between Data objects. |
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Meta-Model Diagram – You can now right-click on a metamodel node and select Show Referenced Objects to add relations and related nodes based on selected properties. This makes it even easier to explore the underlying metamodel of the deployed framework (including customizations), after tasking SA to, essentially, "Show me the metamodel". |
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SA Diagramming – Enhancements to SA diagramming include: |
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Block Move: The Edit > Block Move option has been reintroduced to allow block move without having to drag a symbol to initiate it; just select it and click-and-drag anywhere. An example use is when zoomed out too far to be able to drag on a symbol. |
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Instance Modeling: Has been improved to disallow relating instances when there is no supporting relationship between the base definitions in several scenarios: putting one instance inside another (box-in-box behavior), hierarchy behavior, and port-on-node. In addition, a more informative message is provided when trying to draw an explicit line between instances where there is no supporting instance of a relationship between the base definitions. |
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SA Usability – The following SA features have been enhanced: |
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Picture Browser: Presentation of the Controls section of the Picture Browser is improved for scenarios where users want to orient it horizontally. |
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Live Diagram Picture in Diagram: You are now allowed to set scale to adjust the size of pictures of diagrams. This feature is designed to allow you to layer diagrams to show different levels of detail. You can also create a view that is a live overview of diagrams of an architecture. |
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Matrix Designer: The drop-down list now displays user-defined matrices, sorted alphabetically. |
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Copy Diagram: You may now copy a diagram to a different type of diagram. When you select to copy a diagram in the Explorer tree, you get a drop-down list for selecting the diagram type. |
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Data-Driven Behavior: The status text presented on running refresh on data-driven models has been improved to offer more useful feedback, including the count and maximum number of relationship types and the name of the current relationship type being processed. |
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Customizable Metamodel Language – VBA scripts can now be used in place of SABASIC scripts where specified in the property set files. |
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Scoreboard Dashboard in SA XT – The Scoreboard widget is enhanced as follows: |
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You can now display multiple colors and images for a single value when that value matches multiple criteria. |
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More colors have been added to the option list - for example: Pink, Teal, Purple, etc. |
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You can now set dashboard comparisons against the built-in SA XT Date Variables that use the current date as a basis. For example, you can set a variable such as the Sunset Date of an Application being less than X days from today's date. The date criteria are: %SAXT_LASTYEAR%, %SAXT_LASTMONTH%, %SAXT_LASTWEEK%, and the wildcard instances of %SAXT_TODAY_MINUS?% and %SAXT_TODAY_PLUS?% where the ? can be any number of days. |
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Application Scoreboard in SA XT |
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SA XT Diagramming – Improvements include: |
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Implicit lines and other symbols which have no underlying definition can now be edited. |
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Node symbols can now be resized proportionally by using the corner handles, as in SA. |
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The drawing of explicit instance lines is improved to allow use of an existing single instance or offer selection of multiple instances. |
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The Create Instance option is now available on the Diagram Workspace. |
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You can now specify required properties when creating diagrams that require them. |
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SA XT behavior has been made consistent with SA regarding movement of Pools and Lanes and their contents. |
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A number of client issues are also fixed, as enumerated and described in the Release Notes. |
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At UNICOM, our commitment is to ensure that ongoing research and development continue for all UNICOM software solutions and to maintain the highest standards of technical support for you, our customers.
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