BUG: Display embedded element edges

[Paolo F Cantoni]

When you add a vertex to a diagram, if there are any edges to any other existing vertexes on the diagram, they will be added by EA...  Except if the vertexes are connected via embedded elements!

To manually add them is a LOT of work!

EA needs a new option to control the automatic display of edges connecting to/from embedded elements.  The option should default to true.  The option should be globally available, overridable on a per-diagram and per-vertex basis.

There may need to be a subsidiary option to control the automatic display embedded elements on the diagram.

Thoughts? Votes?
Paolo

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[Martin Terreni]

There may need to be a subsidiary option to control the automatic display embedded elements on the diagram.

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I think it exist (maybe just not globably).
But I vote for all. It will save a lot of work.

[thomaskilian]

Welcome. I have an add-in called insertEmbedded for that.

[Eve]

Try Ctrl+Dragging any element with embedded elements.  It gives you the option of including embedded elements (either all of them) or by copying what is shown on another diagram.

You can also set that as the default when dragging.

If you don't want to do that, right click on the element and select 'Embedded Elements' | 'Embedded Elements...'.  From there you can check to automatically add any embedded elements to the diagram, including inherited ones.

Or is that just not what you're interested in?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Try Ctrl+Dragging any element with embedded elements.  It gives you the option of including embedded elements (either all of them) or by copying what is shown on another diagram.

You can also set that as the default when dragging.

Unfortunately this only shows the embedded elements, it doesn't add the edges therefrom...

If you don't want to do that, right click on the element and select 'Embedded Elements' | 'Embedded Elements...'.  From there you can check to automatically add any embedded elements to the diagram, including inherited ones.
Or is that just not what you're interested in?

Yes, that's correct, WAY too many mouse clicks!  

Paolo

[Eve]

Unfortunately this only shows the embedded elements, it doesn't add the edges therefrom...

Make sure that you also have 'as Simple Link' selected.  If you have 'as Instance' or 'as New Child' selected they will be new elements and therefore won't have any connectors currently existing.  (It does show edges for me.)

Yes, that's correct, WAY too many mouse clicks!  

There is also a keyboard shortcut.  (Ctrl+Shift+B)

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Make sure that you also have 'as Simple Link' selected.  If you have 'as Instance' or 'as New Child' selected they will be new elements and therefore won't have any connectors currently existing.  (It does show edges for me.)

I did... and it didn't (show the edges from the embedded elements.  It showed the other edges).

The keyboard shortcut DOESN'T solve the problem as I have to a priori, know which other items on the diagram have embedded elements that connect to the item I'm adding...  

Paolo

[Eve]

I did... and it didn't (show the edges from the embedded elements.  It showed the other edges).

Then submit a bug report (or a follow up for your original) that includes a specific situation where the links aren't added.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Then submit a bug report (or a follow up for your original) that includes a specific situation where the links aren't added.

Here it is...
Activity diagram with object nodes...

Paolo

[Eve]

That example still shows the objectnodes and links immediately for me.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

That example still shows the objectnodes and links immediately for me.

Hi Simon,

I'm assuming that means you have two activities, joined by an object flow between two object nodes (one per activity).

If you place one activity on a new activity diagram, you get just the activity.  If you place the second, you get two activities, two object nodes and one object flow.

I get two activities.

What can control this display? (BTW: I'm using 815)

Incidentally, when I display the embedded objectnodes (via the dialog)they appear in "in mid-air" above the top left corner of the activity.  When you touch them and move them slightly, they go back to a more correct, though not original, place on the activity.

Paolo

[Eve]

If you place one activity on a new activity diagram, you get just the activity.  If you place the second, you get two activities, two object nodes and one object flow.

Not exactly.

I ctrl-drag one activity (that contains an object node linked to another object node under another activity) from the tree and select to paste 'as Simple Link' and include all embedded elements.

This creates the activity with the relevant object node being shown.

I then repeat this with the second activity and the object flow is shown.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Thanx Simon - for your patience,

Got it!  (It's easy when you follow the instructions...  )  However, I plead EAUI as mitigating circumstance!

However, there is the small matter of the embedded elements appearing "in mid-air" which I'll leave as an extant bug report.

Paolo

[Eve]

Glad it's now working for you.

I'll make sure that the initial bad drawing of the object nodes gets fixed.