relationships in diagrams

[darrenw]

I've got one question which drives me crazy and hopefully someone can help me. I have a list of objects. I create a diagram (doesn't matter which one) and drag the objects onto the diagram as a simple link. I create relationships between them such as dependency. All is ok so far.

I create a second diagram and drag the same objects onto it to show another view. The existing relationships between the objects are automatically drawn for me. I have to hide the relationships because they don't suit the current diagram. I create more relationships for the new diagram and when I return to the first digram those new relationships are also drawn and I have to hide those too.

After 10 diagrams it becomes a mess. Is there an option not to auto draw relationships when I first drawn objects onto my diagram? Or should I be creating them as an instance of an object?

Thanks,
Darren.

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

You can hide relationships in any diagram by just right clicking on the link and specifying hide.

To do something systematic, like show all relationships of type A and hide all relationships of type B, you can create automation.

[darrenw]

Thanks for your reply. However if I have a number of views (say 10) and I add a relationship between A and B, I don't want to find all views that have these objects and hide the relationship if it doesn't suit. Is there a better way?

[peter.zrnko]

There is also an option to "Hide connector in other diagrams".

[RoyC]

This one:

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?hideshowconnectors.htm

[Paolo F Cantoni]

But there is no default for new diagrams...

We've asked for this before...

Paolo

[darrenw]

Cheers. Thanks everyone.