Am I missing something?

[DrBobJacobs]

Because my consulting client expressed a preference for it, I am a new EA user after some years experience with Rational Rose.  I'm coming up the curve as fast as I can, but am puzzled by an apparent lack of fundamental functionality that I would expect in any UML modeling tool.  For example:

1. Why do I not get method responsibilities automatically populating classes when I direct operations to them in sequence diagrams?

2.  Why can I not automatically generate a collaboration/communication diagram from a sequence diagram?

3.  Why when I specify operation arguments, does the operation show up on a sequence diagram with the data types shown as arguments rather than the parameter names?  I don't care much about the types, but I certainly want to know the names of the arguments for data modeling purposes.

4.  How can I automatically extract a report on the operation arguments to form the basis of a data dictionary?

5.  Does the tool not recognize the relationship between operation arguments and the attributes of the operation's target class?  Why is this not reflected automatically?

I have many other such questions, but these are enough to start with.  Is this type of thing touched upon in the tutorial somewhere that I've missed?

[thomaskilian]

Can't answer all your question, but here we go for some:
0. You have to accept the EAUI (EA Unique Interface) but when you do so you will likely not miss RR
1. Works the other way around. You first have to define the methods in the class. Then you can select them from the dropdown when creating messages,

2. Search the forum (also a PITA but that's YaBB, not EA). There is some kind of add-in to do that, but I never missed it (I know RR can do it as per default).

3. There are some options to configure the appearance. Currently I do not make use of that, so you have to find it out elsewhere (wait for an answer or dig yourself).

4. and 5. No idea what you mean. Probably someone else can answer.