The translator interface is simply NASTY.
First issue:
We have attempted to use the translator to add a ownership link between some person objects (existing) and some system objects (existing).
This appeared intially to work well but upon checking every system that had the link established had all properties, description, and stereotype erased.
Is this a known bug? Is there a way to import asscoaitions / links without corupting records?
2nd Issue
Tried to do an update of a single field across all our systems - 1791 records. The translator works BUT it erasing every value not in the update, so after our update of 1791 records we had a system name, and 1 property with values. Every other property (standard and custom), the description, the stereotype were blank.
These sort of issues are why we have been extremely reluctant to use the translator and it appears that some work had been done on the translator in 6.22 so I was hoping for some improvement.
We are now going to do a full translator export of systems, append the updated values to the appropiate column and try a FULL import of every value. In our case we have to provide a list of our system from ProVision to meet a Government imposed regulation deadline so the song 'under presure' is on an endless loop in my head right now.
This worked last nite.
3rd Issue
We can do a translator export of systems to Excel and immediately try to re-import it ands it fails (shows as tabluar rather than valid,) and give us no opportunity to recognise it, at other time the a file we want to impaort will shgow as 'invalid'. Why is this interface so flaky. We are having problems with both the 6.21 client and the 6.22 client.