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Configure Diagram Display
A diagram can show or hide information, and represent it in different ways depending on how you configure the display characteristics. You can maintain your display configuration using the diagram 'Properties' dialog ('Diagram' tab).
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Design > Diagram > Manage > Properties > Diagram Layout > Diagram > Manage > Properties > Diagram |
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Right-click diagram in Project Browser | Properties | Diagram Right-click background of open diagram | Properties | Diagram |
Set the diagram display options
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Use Alias if Available |
Select this checkbox to display the element alias as the element's name, wherever the alias is specified. |
General Settings |
Show Additional Parents |
Select this checkbox to show the names of all parent elements not in the current diagram, for all Classes and Interfaces. |
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Hide Page Border (All Diagrams) |
Select this checkbox to disable the display of page borders on all diagrams in the model. |
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Hide Page Border (Current Diagram) |
Select this checkbox to disable the display of the page border on the current diagram only. (Disabled if 'Hide Page Border (All Diagrams)' is selected.) |
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Show Diagram Details |
Select this checkbox to show diagram details in a note in the top left corner of the diagram.
Deselect the option to hide the diagram details. |
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Show Sequence Notes |
(On a Sequence diagram) Select this checkbox to display the internal Notes for each Message down the left-hand edge of the diagram. Each note has the same number as the Message it comes from.
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Whiteboard Mode |
Select this checkbox to display the diagram as if it had been drawn on a whiteboard, with white fill and background.
(This illustration also has 'Hand Drawn' mode enabled.) |
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Disable fully scoped object names |
Select this checkbox to disable the use of fully scoped object names for elements in this diagram. This option hides the 'Namespace::element Name' if 'Show Namespace' is selected, but not the '(from 'Namespace')' label. The effect of this option is disabled if 'Fully Qualified Namespace' is also selected. |
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Hand Drawn |
Select this checkbox to display the diagram contents as if they had been roughly drawn by hand.
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Show Namespace |
Select this checkbox to show the namespace of each element on the diagram.
For Class, Interface, Enumeration, Component, Node and Artifact elements, the namespace is shown as part of the element name; that is, 'Namespace::element Name'. For elements of other types, the namespace is shown as a '(from 'Namespace')' label beneath the element. |
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Fully Qualified Namespace |
(Enabled when 'Show Namespace' is selected) Select this checkbox to show the fully qualified namespace of each element on the diagram, as a '(from 'Namespace')' label under the element.
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Show Shape Scripts |
Defaults to selected to show elements and connectors with their Shape Scripts, on the diagram. Clear the checkbox to show elements and connectors in their native shapes. This option does not affect Custom Compartments. To hide those, deselect the appropriate 'Show Compartments' checkboxes on the 'Elements' tab of the 'Diagram Properties' dialog, or the element 'Feature Visibility' dialog. |
Shape Scripts Feature Visibility Define Element Characteristics |
Display Element Lock Status |
Select this checkbox to add a locking indicator (! or !) outside the top left corner of each locked element on the diagram. If the element is:
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Always Open as Element List |
Select this checkbox to always display the diagram contents as a Diagram List rather than as a diagram. |
Diagram List |
Always Open as Gantt |
Select this checkbox to always display the diagram contents as a Gantt chart. |
The Gantt View |
Page Setup |
Adjust the scaling of the diagram image according to the size of the page it is to be printed on. |
Scale Image to Page Size |
Print Page Header and Page Footer |
Select this checkbox to add page headers and footers to a print-out of the diagram. The headers and footers are generated from the diagram characteristics, such as the name of the creator and the date of modification. |
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Background Tile |
Click on the button and select a background tile design to apply just to this diagram. The filename of the background design file displays in the left-hand field. If you no longer want to apply a background tile to the diagram, click on the . |
Diagram Gradients and Backgrounds |
Document Generation Options |
These are options for generating document reports that include the selected diagram. |
Document Options |
Exclude image from Documentation |
Select this checkbox to exclude this diagram image from any document report generated on the parent Package or element. |
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Document each contained element in Documentation |
Select this checkbox to include documentation on each element in this diagram, in any document report generated on the parent Package or element. |
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Divide Diagram into Multiple Pages |
Select this checkbox to divide each large diagram into separate pages in the document report. |
Scaled to page |
Rotate Images |
Select this checkbox to rotate each diagram image by 90 degrees in the document report. |
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Default Zoom |
This facility is enabled when the selected diagram in the 'Diagram Properties' dialog is open and available for editing in the Diagram View. Zoom in or out of the diagram to achieve the required magnification using either Ctrl+mouse wheel before you open the 'Diagram Properties' dialog, or the slider control on this 'Diagram' page. Click on the . Now, each time the diagram is opened, it will default to this zoom level. This diagram-local default zoom overrides any global zoom setting you have imposed for your user ID, using the slider in the Status bar. |
Status Bar |
Set Layout Style |
Click on this button to define the layout of the diagram, to be applied automatically when you select the 'Layout Diagram' options. |
Layout Diagram |
OK |
If you have finished updating the diagram properties, click on this button to save the changes and close the 'Properties' dialog. |
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Cancel |
If you do not want to save the changes you have made, click on this button to discard the changes and close the dialog. |
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Help |
Click on this button to display this Help topic. |
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