Collection class?

[Stringer]

Is there any comprehensive help available how to use the Class -> Attributes|Detail|Collection -feature of the program?
The help file doesn't tell much of the very purpose of that feature, or how is it supposed to make my life easier.

[«Midnight»]

No, not much.

Search my recent posts on properties to get (a little) more on this issue.

David

[jeshaw2]

It seems to help code generation.  If the attribute is a container of some sort, that fact is reflected in the generated coding of that attribute (allowing the attribute to concurrently hold multiple values) as opposed to it being coded as a simple single valued type.  

I work too far upstream (primarily in the DIM/CIM/PIM models) to use code generation, so I can't help more.

[RoyC]

In other words, it enables you to code the attribute as an array of multiple concurrent values.

I will update the Attribute Details topic to explain that.

Thanks for highlighting the lack.

Roy

[jeshaw2]

An array would be one type of container, but is it the only type of container?  Perhaps so within EA, but there are other container types as well.  Does this EA modeling feature support any of those as well?  For example, would you consider an attribute which is an anchor for a linked-list qualify as a container.  :-/

[Eve]

The built in code engineering of EA only uses this for arrays.  But you're only constrained by that if you're using code engineering.