Multilingual Sequence diagrams

[vineetgogia]

The business analysts of a software product that we're developing are well conversed in a western european language, but not in English. While we create sequence diagrams in English.  Our Sequence diagrams represent business knowledge

Is there a way in Enterprise architect where we (ofcourse after having done the translation manually) can switch on / off a particular language? e.g. we could turn on language 1 when we're working and language 2 when it's under review by the Business analysts. Tags are helpful in the sense that they can be switched on or off but they work only till the class level, no option to define tags for messages/operations.

Thanks in advance,
Vineet

[thomaskilian]

This is unfortunately not so easy. I stumbled across this in the very beginning and decided to just use EA in English (or where appropriate in German). But always in one language.

What you can do to some extend is to make use of the Alias where available. Some of the elements (not all of them!) have an Alias. You can create two diagrams with the option "Use Alias" turned on in one of them. That will give you a picture in the 2nd language. It does not help with documentation since it has only one field. I normally fill in 2nd language text in square brackets at the end.