Adding metatype

[Uffe]

Hi there!


In a recent release of a profile, I added the _metatype attribute to one of my stereotypes. I deployed it in the same MDG Technology as always.

In my target project, I have now observed that some of the pre-existing classes with this stereotype are labelled Class (in dialogs etc) while others have the specified metatype. I would like them all to have the metatype.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there a simple trick I can do to force the metatype onto these elements? And what's the underlying reason for this behaviour (so I can avoid it next time I go fiddling with metatypes)?

Cheers,


/Uffe

[qwerty]

Yes. Making such changes to your MDG will cause grief. You need to sanitize that with a script and set the metatype for the old elements.

In a former project I had some sort of migration procedure for MDG changes.

q.

[KP]

If a class displays the wrong metatype, it will be because it has the wrong stereotype (think fully-qualified names: same stereotype, different profile). Have you changed the name of the profile? Or have a look in Settings > UML Types and see if the stereotype is in there (effectively the "global" profile). You may need to reapply the stereotype to those elements.