Properties Dialog

The element 'Properties' dialog helps you to define and review a wide range of properties of a selected element. For a Class, these properties include:

• General settings, such as name, notes, alias, stereotype (if any), version, scope, dates created and modified, and status
• Details such as cardinality, concurrency and features (attributes and operations) owned
• Advanced, or custom, properties that you can edit
• Tagged Values assigned to the element
• Technology-specific Tagged Values grouped on a separate tab
• Requirements associated with the element, both internal (responsibilities) and external
• Constraints on the element's actions
• Scenarios under which the element operates
• External files associated with the element
• Links (relationships or connectors) in which the element is the source or target

These properties are presented on either a main tab of the 'Properties' dialog or a secondary tab in the panel at the right of the dialog.

Access

On a diagram or in the Browser window, select an element and:

Buttons

On any tab of the 'Properties' dialog, at any time, you can click on the buttons at the foot of the dialog and save or clear your changes.

Notes

• There are several variations of the 'Properties' dialog:
       -  The dialog for a Table or Stored Procedure element has slight differences on the 'General' tab, and
           a 'Table Details' (or 'Stored Procedure Details') tab instead of a 'Details' tab
       -  The dialog for a Class element of a stereotype other than Table is as shown in the General Settings
           topic
       -  The dialog for an element of any type other than Class does not have a 'Details' tab
       -  System Boundaries have a single 'Properties' tab on which you define the element appearance
       -  The 'Properties' dialog for Wireframe elements automatically opens to either a main Wireframe' tab
           on which you can edit the element rendering directly, or a second-level Wireframing Tagged Values'
           tab (from the General tab) if you define the element rendering by editing the XML for the
           properties of that element type

• In all cases, the 'Properties' dialog is expandable; you can enlarge it for adding longer entries and clearer reading of the text field values
• The 'Responsibilities' tabs - 'Requirements', 'Constraints', 'Scenarios' and 'Files' - are the detailed definition screens for the Responsibilities window and can be accessed from it
• The 'Tags' tab of the 'Properties' dialog provides facilities to create and edit Tagged Values on the object
• If Tagged Values have been derived from a stereotyped element in a Profile, they are listed on a separate tab having the Profile name
• An Object element will show the properties of its classifier, some of which are changed to represent this specific instance of the classifier

Learn more

• Tagged Values
• Requirements
• Constraints
• Scenarios
• Associated Files
• Object Display Options
• Working With Table Properties
• Port
• Part
• The Property Tab
• Interactions and Activities
• Action
• Trigger
• Behavior Calls
• Action Pin
• System Boundary Properties
• Classifiers and Instances
• Wireframe Modeling