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Quick Linker
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The Quick Linker provides a fast and simple way to create new elements and connectors on a diagram When an element is selected in a diagram, the Quick Linker arrow is displayed in the upper right corner of a element; simply clicking and dragging the arrow enables you to create new connectors and elements The philosophy behind the built-in Quick Linker definitions is to provide, not a complete list of valid or legal connections, but a short and convenient list of the commonest connections for the given context As part of a UML Profile, you can add to or replace the built-in Quick Linker definitions |
Quick Linker Definition Format |
Customized Quick Linker Settings |
A Quick Linker definition is a Comma Separated Value (CSV) format file; it is best manipulated in a spreadsheet, which should be set up to save the CSV file as comma-separated text without quotation marks around text fields To add a Quick Linker definition file to a profile or technology, simply place a DocumentArtifact element onto the Profile diagram, give it the name QuickLink, then double-click on it Open your CSV file in a text editor such as Notepad and copy and paste the contents into the DocumentArtifact element; the definitions are saved with the profile and are processed and applied when the profile is imported The same applies if a profile is included within a technology, with the proviso that the QuickLink element must be in the same profile as the link stereotype definitions; this means that a technology could have a set of Quick Link definitions for each profile |
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