Hi Matthieu,
Although the icon editor feature isn't there for tasks, there is a
workaround.
You could create "template" tasks with the icons that you want using IBM
Method Composer (the 60 day free trial version), and then use these as
templates for creating additional tasks with those icons (just copy and
paste the task that has the desired icon).
You could also create your template tasks in EPF Composer and then directly
edit the plugin.xmi file to add the shapeicon and nodeicon
atttributes as shown below
<contentElements xsi:type="org.eclipse.epf.uma:Task"
xmi:id="_EwDy8E-HEeqeds3FWOP98Q" name="task1"
guid="_EwDy8E-HEeqeds3FWOP98Q" presentationName="Task1"
briefDescription="TBD" shapeicon="tasks/resources/new_shape_icon.gif"
nodeicon="tasks/resources/new_node_icon.gif"
IBM Method Composer also supports extending the meta-model if you wanted to
go that route, but then you would also have to use Method Composer to
publish.
For capability patterns, you can only select from 3 available icons, phase,
iteration, and activity.
When publishing a capability pattern with tasks that have specific icons, I
think you will have to publish using the option to "Replace descriptor page
with linked content element page", otherwise you will just see the task
descriptor icon in the published site.
Please reply direct to me and not the epf-dev list to minimize traffic.
I'm only responding to the list so that others know that your question has
been responded to.
Bruce MacIsaac
Solution Architect, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Products / Engineering Method
Composer (MEC)
[email protected]
209-213-3037
From: Matthieu IGAU <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: 04/23/2020 12:35 AM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [epf-dev] How to customize a task
Sent by: [email protected]
Hello,
I'm writing you because I'm trying to describe a process using EPF but I
don't know how to manage something.
I'd like to describe the process which seems quite easy using tasks,
capability patterns and delivery processes from the SPEM metamodel.
The point is that I'd like also to describe how to apply this process in
the tools I use and the guidances are a bit limited because the process
being tool agnostic a task is not linked to a unique guidance. For example
if a task is linked to several tool mentors it is not possible to clearly
define which one should be done first etc. A solution could be to use a
Guideline artefact to describe all of that but the goal of using EPF was
for me to avoid this kind of big guidelines which are not really read
then...
I saw that it doesn't seem possible to customize the metamodel, creating
new elements by heritage for example, so I'm wondering if it could be
possible to have a section to customize icons for tasks and capability
patterns? It could allow to use tasks and workflow diagrams of capability
patterns to explain what shoud be done in the tool with a way to identify
each of them at the first sight.
Regards
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