From concept to creation
The new Cradle version (7.1) is very close combining SysML, other modelling notations with full-lifecycle requirements management and systems engineering!
Watch for developments here, or visit: www.threesl.com for more updates!
It is time to announce the end of the Beta test period for Cradle-7.1, our release that introduces SysML into the set of notations that are supported by Cradle’s modelling tools.
We would like to express our thanks to all of the people who provided their time to study Cradle-7.1, and we would also like to thank their organisations for agreeing to this use of their time.
We have received much valuable feedback from the Beta testing and we have included as much of this feedback as possible into the Cradle-7.1 release.
We expect to make an announcement about the release of Cradle-7.1 very soon!
As has been the case with all previous releases of Cradle:
– Security Codes for previous versions of Cradle will not work with Cradle-7.1
– New Security Codes for Cradle-7.1 will be provided, on request, to anyone who has an active maintenance agreement with 3SL
Once again, to all Beta testers, thank you very much!
We have recently seen cases where a Document Publisher template – which is an ordinary Word document – contains references to other Word templates that have been created by an organisation.
Generally, this is OK, everything works correctly as you would expect.
However, if the Word templates (.dot or .dotx files) are not available, or are corrupted, then problems can occur because Word (running inside Document Publisher) may display error messages and prompt you to re-try access to the template, or repeat an attempt to save changes back to it, and so on.
You can either accept that these messages will occur over and over again, or you can disconnect your Document Publisher template (the Word document) from the Word templates.
It is difficult for us to offer general advice as every organisation is different, but our inclination would be to sever connections to these Word templates if you ever seen any warning or error dialogs from Word.
Some notes on this topic can be found here:
We hope that this is helpful!
Editing dates in Cradle can be useful. You may want to change the default date format, or it could be you need to bring a review date forward for selected items. In this article I will explain how you can do this, including tips which may help.
Cradle allows attributes to be defined as dates. These dates are stored by default using the format yyyy/mm/dd in the database. However, you can control how dates are displayed, for example as: dd/mm/yy or as mm/dd/yy. Date fields are displayed with a ‘date chooser‘ that displays a calendar that you can use to change months and select days.
If you enter a date before 2000, such as: 23/09/95 then you cannot enter a year number such as: 07 to mean 2007. Similarly, if you enter a date with a year such as 16, then this will be interpreted to be 2016 and you cannot manually enter a year such as 99 to mean 1999.
The ability to use the cursor keys and TAB and CTRL-TAB may be helpful.
To set your choice of date display, open the User Preferences -> UI Control and select in Date and Time Display.
The Preferences dialog lets you control settings that are used to customise your WorkBench environment and set default options. For more information you can take a look at this cradle help article.
The Beta testing of Cradle-7.1 has been underway for a little while.
The testing is going very well, with useful feedback from the Beta testers about the new SysML capability and the other enhancements in this latest Cradle release.
We expect to make an announcement about Cradle-7.1 at the end of this month.
We would like to express our thanks to those who have been able to get involved, your help is very much appreciated!
With best regards
If you have upgraded from Cradle-6.8 – when we had an add-in for Excel – to Cradle-7.0, then you will have seen the new, and consierably more capable, capture utility. This new capture utility is shown in a Cradle tab in the Excel ribbon.
If the old Add-Ins tab is still visible, then you can remove it. This may be part of your personal Excel setup and so is in your Windows profile and hence is not something that our installer can change.
To remove the Add-Ins tab from Excel (if you see it):
1. Start Excel
2. Right click anywhere in the ribbon and choose ‘customise ribbon’
3. On the right hand side of the dialog, de-select the ‘Add-Ins’ tab (you can check that it is empty!)
4. Click OK
We hope that this helps!