Scenarios in Use Cases

[frankk]

Can I get a Use Case to display its Scenario in the diagram?

[«Midnight»]

Frank,

For some reason there's no 'standard' way to display a scenario as part of the use case element. Perhaps this is because you can have multiple scenarios...

You can do something similar, by using a note link. This has the effect of showing a note on the diagram, that has a link to the use case (or other element). In this case the content of the note is linked to some feature of the element, and a scenario (you have to choose which) can be one such feature. When you do this the note will display the scenario text; changing the text in either the note or the element changes the scenario.

To find out how to do this, in the EA help index type "note link" - without the quotes, and make sure to include the space - and you'll get (in build 818) the Link to Element topic. When you go to the topic the page will be titled Link a Note to an Element; that's the one you want.

HTH, David

[frankk]

I was hoping it would be visible in the 'rectangular' format, which does have compartments. Seems logical to me :-)

[«Midnight»]

Sadly, there is no compartment that will display a scenario.

Sigh...

Of course you could always build a shape script to do this, but you'll likely not get it to look the way you want. Dynamic resizing in shape scripts is limited in versatility.

[frankk]

Sigh.

Thanks.