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Operations
Operations are features of a Class or other element that represent the behavior or services an element supports. For a Customer Class, UpdateCustomerName and GetCustomerAddress can be operations. Operations have several important characteristics, such as type, scope (visibility), static, abstract and notes.
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How to Access Operations |
If an element supports operations (typically Classes and Interfaces), the right-click context menu contains the Operations menu item. Select this to open the |
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How Operations Appear in Diagrams |
Elements with operations (typically Classes) display their features in diagrams in the manner shown below. Operations display in the second compartment of properties in colored text - the default color is dark green (for example, Finalize() : void). Some characteristics display in shorthand form; for example, static displays as $, abstract as *. |
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Operations in the project Browser |
In the Project Browser, Classes with operations have their features collected beneath them, each preceded by a pink box ( From the Project Browser, you can drag operations onto new elements to give them the same operations. |
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). Right-click on an operation and select the Notes:
- If the parent element provides source or target roles for a connector, the connector can be attached to a specific operation. See the Connect to Element Feature topic
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