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sargasso

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Hiding Activity partitions
« on: July 13, 2005, 11:47:17 pm »
Out of hundreds of activity models I have finally got one that with an activity that needs to be decomposed into an "action" diagram.  That is, an activity diagram with one activity -  the parent, containing the actions available within.
Not a problem - I thought - viva la UML 2.0 I thought - change the parent in the parent diagram to a composite.  Drag the parent activity into the child diagram and create the decomposition.  During this work it became evident that the various usage scenarios could best be represented by adding partitions to the parent activity, which I did.... common, reset and search partitions all appear nicely inside the activity.


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1) I cant re-order the partitions.
2) What do I do about actions that need to appear in all three partitions (i.e. commoner than "common")
3)  :'( When I go back to the parent diagram - I can't hide the partitions


Am I doing something so basically wrong here or isn't what I want possible?


bruce

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p.p.s  How do people handle the "anonymous" entry points to the activity in these typers of models?
« Last Edit: July 13, 2005, 11:48:04 pm by sargasso »
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Re: Hiding Activity partitions
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2005, 04:29:04 am »
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Am I doing something so basically wrong here or isn't what I want possible?

No sport, you've just been caught by the same bug that you get in State Submachines.  You can't suppress these partitions...

Report it...

Still, it's better to be consistently wrong than inconsistently wrong... ;D

Paolo :(
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