Frequently Asked Questions

Astah support may ask you to provide your .asta file along with your bug report in case the log file was not sufficient to solve the issue. If the .asta files contains any confidential information, you can obfuscate the file, so all the model names would be replaced with meaningless characters and numbers.

1. Open the .asta file
2. Go to [Tool] - [XMI Input & Output] - [Save as Obfuscated XMI Project [For Bug Report]]
   
   
   


3. A dialog box will appear confirm you would like to proceed by clicking [Yes].
   
   


4. Select where you want to save the .XMI
5. Send the .xml to Astah Support

To confirm how all the model names have been obfuscated in the file, you can check it by yourself by going to [Tool] - [XMI Input & Output] – [Open XMI Project] and then select the exported XMI.

Sample

Orignal Class Diagram

Class Diagram after being obfusated