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Profile Toolbox
The Profile Toolbox is used in creating Profiles for extending UML models. These Profiles can define custom Stereotypes, Tagged Values, Diagram Types and Toolboxes.
The Toolbox also contains a set of Profile Helpers that provide templates and dialogs to help you create UML Profiles, Toolbox Profiles and Diagram Profiles within an MDG Technology.
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Profiles are used to provide a generic extension mechanism. The Profile package element acts as the container for the diagrams, elements and connectors that define the Profile itself. A Stereotype provides a mechanism for varying the behavior and type of a model element. A Metaclass represents the base UML element or connector type that you are extending. An Enumeration is used to define an enumeration Tagged Value, which can be attached to one or more Stereotypes that have been defined in the Profile. Profile Helpers are templates and dialogs that help you create, respectively:
An Extension relationship shows that a Stereotype extends a Metaclass; all Stereotypes must extend either:
A Generalize relationship shows that one Stereotype specializes a more general Stereotype; the more general Stereotype must still extend a Metaclass. A Tagged Value relationship is used to define a Tagged Value which is a reference (that is, RefGUID) to an element with a specific stereotype.
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Add Stereotypes and Metaclasses
Add an Enumeration to a Stereotype
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Notes
| • | To add an element to the currently-open diagram, click on the appropriate icon and drag it into position on the diagram; set an element name and other properties as prompted |
| • | To add a relationship, click on the appropriate icon, then click on the start element in the diagram and drag to the end element |
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