OmniGraffle Pro

Installation

GraffleTopia

GraffleTopia is a site that contains lots of templates and stencils for OmniGraffle. The contents of the site are available to all 3 of the OmniGraffle applications (standard, Pro and iPad).

1. Open the stencils
2. In the search box type 'TRAK'
3. Tap on 'Search'. OmniGraffle Pro will return the results:
4. If you like what you see tap on 'Download' to install it.

Locally

1. Open the stencils
2. In the search box type 'TRAK'
3. Tap on 'Search'. OmniGraffle Pro will return the results
4. Select the stencil found on your Mac
5. Click on 'Install' at the top of the stencil palette
   

Features on OmniGraffle Pro for Mac

• editable attributes for each TRAK object type (OmniGraffle block)
• editable Notes field
• blocks & connectors in stencil allow any TRAK architecture view to be created
• stencil (alone) available via Sourceforge and GraffleTopia (in-tool)

Use

General

To understand what connector is allowed to connect to what block within TRAK you need to look at the 1 pager TRAK metamodel. This can be downloaded from http://trakmetamodel.sf.net.

To understand the purpose (concerns addressed) by any TRAK view and what is allowed you need to look at the TRAK Viewpoints document. There are 22 possible TRAK views and the viewpoints document contains a specification for each. This can be downloaded from http://trakviewpoints.sf.net.

Overall considerations are defined in the TRAK Enterprise Architecture Framework document. This can be downloaded at http://trak.sf.net.

Blocks

These represent the stereotypes from the TRAK metamodel e.g. 'Software','System', 'Job', 'Enterprise', 'Protocol', 'Contract'.

1. Drag the block of choice onto the drawing canvas.
2. Add a suitable informative description using the 'Note' (Properties | Note). Additional information can be captured in the user data (attributes of the block)
   

Connectors

1. Drag the connector of choice onto the drawing canvas.
2. Ungroup the connector by right-clicking the object and then selecting 'Ungroup'
3. drag each end of the connector onto the respective block(s)

Limitations on Using the Stencil on OmniGraffle Pro

OmniGraffle Pro has the fewest limitations of the 3 versions of the application.

• OmniGraffle Pro won't print notes. The workaround is to export the canvas to PDF and check the 'Include Notes' box. Adobe Acrobat does print notes.
• OmniGraffle Pro won't print user data. Unfortunately there is no workaround as this isn't exported into a PDF