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Compartments

When you place an element on a diagram, you can display it with a number of compartments that reveal not only the attributes and operations of the element, but also several other properties such as tags, constraints and tests.

Compartment Types

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Type

Detail

See also

Tags
 

·Or fully qualified, expanded format:
 

TagCompartExpand

 

Tags Compartment

The tags compartment lists all Tagged Values for an element as entered in the Tagged Values window.

The fully-qualified option shows only those Tagged Values that were created in Enterprise Architect release 7.1 or later; it does not expand Tagged Values created in earlier releases.

Tagged Values

Responsibilities

 

Responsibilities Compartment

The responsibilities compartment shows a list of responsibilities as entered on the Requirements page of the element Properties dialog.

Requirements

Constraints

 

Constraints Compartment

The constraints compartment shows a list of element constraints as entered in the Constraints page of the element Properties dialog.

Constraints

 

Testing Compartment

The testing compartment lists all of the tests associated with an element as listed in the Testing window.

 

Working on Test Records

 

Maintenance Compartment

The maintenance compartment lists all of the defects, changes, issues and tasks associated with an element, as listed in the Maintenance window.

 

Working on Maintenance Items

Notes

·To set the display of each of the various compartments, see the Feature Visibility topic; the display of the compartments is also controlled through the diagram properties, on the Elements tab - the specific element settings take precedence over the more general diagram settings
 

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