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Create Document Artifact
You can create a Document Artifact element to host a Linked Document for another model element. You can either create an appropriate connector between the Document Artifact and the documented element (to indicate how the document impacts the element), or drag the Document Artifact over the model element on the diagram or in the Browser window so that it becomes a child of the model element. Alternatively, if the document is not specific to a model element, you can leave the Document Artifact as an independent element in an appropriate location.
Create a Linked Document in a Document Artifact
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Open the diagram containing the element for which to create the Linked Document. |
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Open the 'Documents' page of the Diagram Toolbox. Drag and drop the Document Artifact element icon from the Toolbox into your diagram. |
Diagram Toolbox Common Page Document Artifact |
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Double-click on the Document Artifact element. A default blank-page document opens in the Linked Document Editor, based on the Normal.rtf style template. Alternatively, click on the Artifact and select the 'Start > Application > Design > Document' ribbon option. A default blank-page document opens in the Document Window, based on the Normal.rtf style template. |
The Normal.rtf Style Template |
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Apply a template and/or continue to develop the Linked Document as described in the Create Linked Document on an Element topic, from step 2 onwards. |
Create Linked Document on an Element |
Notes
- As another alternative, you can create a File Artifact element containing a document file that you have dragged from a file browser onto an Enterprise Architect diagram; see the Create File Artifacts Help topic
- There is a limit of one Linked Document per Document Artifact element, but you can provide more than one Linked Document for a model element by linking it to more than one Document Artifact
- This operation is available in all editions of Enterprise Architect
- When you have saved the document, an A symbol displays in the bottom right corner of the element