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Stereotype Selector

If you want to apply more than one stereotype to a UML object, from multiple sources such as Profiles or the Customized Stereotypes List, you can select the stereotypes from the 'Stereotypes for <object name>' dialog. This dialog also helps you to identify existing, valid individual stereotypes, and to create new stereotypes. The new stereotypes, at this point, are simple labels; if you want them to impose an Effect on the object, locate them on the 'Stereotypes' tab of the 'UML Types' dialog and define the Effect.

Access

Other

Display the 'Stereotype for <object name>' dialog by clicking on Browse. beside the 'Stereotype' field in the object's 'Properties' dialog or Properties window.

Select Stereotypes to Apply or Remove

Field/Button

Action

Perspective

Click on the drop-down arrow and select a Perspective name, to limit the stereotypes offered for selection to those available under that Perspective.

If you want to examine stereotypes across the model from any Perspective, click on the button and select 'All'.

The 'Stereotypes' column lists the available stereotypes; click on the checkbox against each stereotype to select.

When you initially open the 'Stereotype for <object name>' dialog, the Perspective name in the field is the Perspective shown in the Choose perspective button.<perspective name> icon at the top right of the application screen. Changing the Perspective in the 'Stereotype for <object name>' dialog does not change the 'global' Perspective on the icon. If you want to re-set the 'Stereotype for <object name>' dialog Perspective to the global Perspective, simply click on the drop-down arrow and select 'Active'.

Profile

Click on the drop-down arrow and choose the required stereotype source - an integrated MDG Technology or the base EAUML, for example, or select the blank line for your Customized Stereotypes list.

The field defaults to the last-selected Profile (if it is in the currently-set Perspective) or, if the element already has a stereotype, the Profile for that stereotype.

Stereotypes

Select the checkbox against each required stereotype.

If you no longer want to use a stereotype, deselect the checkbox.

Apply to

Displays the types of object that the selected stereotype is assigned to.

New

Click on this button to create a new (but undefined) stereotype. A prompt displays for the stereotype name.

OK

Click on this button to apply the selection.

Cancel

Click on this button to cancel any selections and close the dialog.

Notes

  • If you have selected more than one stereotype, the 'Properties' dialog lists them on separate lines of the 'Stereotype' field
  • The appearance of a stereotype on an object in a diagram is influenced by the stereotype visibility settings on the 'Properties' dialog for the diagram

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