Element Context Menu Operations

Extensions

Select this option to access a submenu of enabled Technologies on the system (for example, ArcGIS or TOGAF), each of which provides options for performing technology-specific operations on the element.

This option is available in the Professional, Corporate and Extended editions of  Enterprise Architect.

Domain Based Models

Systems Engineering

Properties

Select this option to open the Properties dialog for the selected element.

For State Lifeline and Value Lifeline elements, the Configure Timeline dialog displays.

For a Required Interface element, the Exposed Interface dialog displays.

Alt+Enter

Properties dialog

Configure Timeline - States

Expose Interface

Properties Page

Select this option to display a list of the common tabs of the Properties dialog.

Click on one of the tab names to open the element Properties dialog with that tab exposed.

Other Properties

For State Lifeline, Value Lifeline and Required Interface elements, select this option to display the Properties dialog for the selected element.

Ctrl+Shift+G

Properties dialog

Advanced

Select this option to open the Advanced sub-menu, which provides options for performing more complex or specialized operations on the element.

Advanced Operations on Elements

New Child Element

Select this option to attach:

 
 
Create Notes and Text
Note

New Child Diagram

Select this option to display a submenu, listing - in order:

Classifiers and Instances

Composite Elements

Show Composite Diagram

Add New Diagrams

Features and Properties

Select this option to add Attributes and/or Operations to the element, through the Attributes or Operations pages of the Features dialog, or to override any inherited Attribute values set on the element.

For an Object or State element you can add a new instance variable to the element using the Define Run State dialog.

For elements that can have interfaces, you can also select to show realized and/or dependent interfaces.

You also have the option of opening the Feature and Compartment Visibility dialog to define which features and feature properties to display on the element, and which element compartments.

F9
F10
Ctrl+Shift+R
 

Ctrl+Shift+Y

Attributes
Operations
Display Inherited Attributes

Define A Run-Time Variable

Show Realized interfaces of Class

Feature Visibility

Structural Elements

Select this option to display the Structural Elements dialog, for managing the structural elements (such as Provided Interfaces, Ports and Activity Parameters) attached to the selected element.

Ctrl+Shift+B

Manage Structural Elements

Insert Related Elements

Select this option to display the Insert Related Elements dialog, to add elements related to the selected element to the current diagram.

Insert Related Elements

Decision Table

For a selected Activity or Action element, select this option to display, set up and edit the Decision Table for the element.

Decision Tables

Draw as Decision Table (Rules as Columns)

For a selected Activity or Action, replace the element shape on the diagram with its Decision Table, showing the decision rules as columns.

The element is automatically sized to display the rule text; you cannot change the element size manually.

Draw as Decision Table (Rules as Rows)

For a selected Activity or Action, replace the element shape on the diagram with its Decision Table, showing the decision rules as rows.

The element is automatically sized to display the rule text; you cannot change the element size manually.

Draw as Activity
Draw as Action

Where an element is rendered as a Decision Table on the diagram, replace it with the normal element shape.

Rule Composer

For a Rule Task element, select this option to invoke the Rule Composer in Business Rule Modeling.

Compose Business Rules

Create (or Edit) Linked Document

(Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Ultimate editions) Select this option to create a document linked to the element.

Ctrl+Alt+D

Create Linked Document on an Element

Delete Linked Document

Select this option to delete an existing linked document for the element.

Replace or Delete Documents

Generate Documentation

Select this option to generate a range of reports and other documents on the element.

F8

Document Reports

Create Document to Artifact

(On an Artifact element linked to a Master Document or Model Document element). Select this option to generate a virtual document as the linked document of the Artifact element.

Generate Report to an Artifact Element

Find

Select this option to display the Find submenu, which provides options for:

Finding Elements

Appearance

Select this option to display a short menu of options to change and reproduce the appearance of the element.

Changing Element Appearance

Code Engineering

Select this option to display a submenu showing options to:

F11
 

 
F7

F12

 
Ctrl+Shift+J

 
Generate a Single Class

Generate DDL for an Object

Importing Source Code

Element Options in the Project Browser

Operation Menu - Project Browser

Update Package Contents

Editing Source Code

Execution Analyzer

Create Workbench Variables

Recording Activity For a Class

Lock Element

Select this option to lock the element so it can't be edited; to unlock the element, select Lock Element again.

This does not apply in the Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Ultimate editions when security is enabled; in that situation, use the Lock option for model elements.

Lock model elements

Selectable

Select or deselect this option to toggle whether the element is selectable or not:

This option has no effect on double-click operations on the element, such as displaying child diagrams or Properties dialogs.

An element on a locked diagram is also unselectable - if you click on it, the element outline displays in red.

In a diagram, you can filter the display to show selectable or non-selectable elements only.

Diagram Filters

Dockable

Select this option to align and join two elements either vertically or horizontally, on the current diagram only.

Both elements must have the Dockable option selected, and must have the joining edges parallel.

As the distance between the elements narrows, the moving element snaps to the edge of the other element.

For Activity Partitions, the option is selected by default.

Deselecting the Dockable option does not separate the elements; if necessary, you can simply move the elements apart again.

Partition

Z-Order

Select this option to display a short submenu providing options to:

Z Order Elements

UML Help

Select this option to display the Help topic describing the type of element you have selected.

Delete <element name>

Select this option to delete the element from the diagram. The element still exists within the model and can be accessed from the Project Browser.

Ctrl+D

Delete Elements from Diagram and Model