Move elements from diagram to diagram

[efortier]

Hi all,

I'll reserve my comments and amazement toward EA for another thread and I would like to ask you guys about moving elements between diagrams

I have several requirements diagrams describing various bits of an application I'm building. I would like to know if it's possible to select some elements and move them to another diagram without using the Project View.

I find it pretty time consuming to locate my requirements by their title in the project view (damn me for not using auto-numbering) when I need to move a lot of them to another diagram. What I currently do is that I select the elements on the source diagram (since they are linked and easier to select visually), press Ctrl+C, go to the target diagram, press Ctrl+V, then I go to the source diagram in the project view and move the elements manually by drag & drop to the target diagram's package folder.

Any ways I can speed this up?

Thanks!

[thomaskilian]

Just try copy/paste. Select elements in the diagram and Ctl-C. Then open the target diagram and Ctl-V.

[efortier]

Just try copy/paste. Select elements in the diagram and Ctl-C. Then open the target diagram and Ctl-V.

As you can read in my original post this is what I do. However the element itself is not moved to the new location, a simple link is created and a reference label appears under the object.

This is very nice, but when you need to move several elements from a long list to another diagram, it gets tedious. There's should really be a Cut in addition to Copy.

[Eve]

Well, you aren't going to be able to do this without using the tree.  Elements are not contained within a diagram, rather in a package.

However, if you right click on an element on a diagram you can select 'Select in Project Browser'.  That makes it easier to find in the tree.

Another alternative would be to do as you are, but use paste as new instead.  The original elements can then be deleted.  This does cause you to lose relationships between elements though.

A third alternative is to right click on a diagram in the tree and select copy diagram to clipboard.  Then go to the package you want and paste the diagram.  Select a Deep copy and all elements will be copied to the new package along with the diagram.  You can then delete any elements you don't want.

None of those are really what you want I think, but I hope they help.

[efortier]

Simon, thanks a lot for your detailed response. It should be more than enough to save me quite a few clicks!