Interrupt Flow

[Kinlan]

Hi,

I am using Enterprise Architect 6.1.792 Trial Edition and I am having a problem with it locking up when I try to use "Interrupt Flow" in an Activity Diagram.

We are creating a use case model, and we are using activty diagrams to model the scenarios in one diagram.  And we need to model that an exception can be thrown in a scenario when the User Fails authentication.  However we cannot do this.  I have tried putting the "User Authentication" Activity inside a Interruptable Region and then linking the region with an exception handler. The user intface locks up, and after a while all it offers us is a mouse icon with a "(+)" next to it.

Has anybody had problems with EA just locking up when trying to use the Interrupt Flow.  If so how did you get around it.

I have seen the posts about checking that the UML 2.0 compliance checking should be turned off, but I have tried this and I still get the same effect that I described above.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Paul

[«Midnight»]

Hi Paul,

I've not seen this myself, but I have not tried doing quite what you describe. I'd suggest filing this immediately as a possible bug - after you ensure you can replicate the behavior of course.

You can get to the bug report page from the EA main menu via Help / On-line Resources / Bug Report Page.

Sparx is pretty good at attacking things that cause EA to fail or lock up. You'll likely get a quick response.

In the meantime keep watching for replies here - turn notification on if you have not. Someone has surely run into something similar, and can offer a workaround. At the very least you might get a suggestion for an alternate way of accomplishing what you need.

HTH, David

[Kinlan]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.  If anyone has any suggestions of an alternative way to model exceptions at a use case activity diagram level I would appreciate the input.

Paul