I'm not exactly sure how the Hierachy would work for what I am trying to do. But I did try the matrix view and that did not help. I was able to get the matrix view to show me that there is information flow between certain components, but I could not figure out how many times a particular object was flowing to different components across all the diagrams. I am a beginner with Enterprise Architect, so this could be the reason why I am not able to figure this out.
For Clarity, this is exactly what I am looking for. I created 4 component diagrams with information flow. I dragged and dropped each component i made into all the diagrams as a simple link. Then i created a list of classes. All the components have information flow, so i right clicked the information flow line, then clicked "advanced", then "information items conveyed", then "add" to add all the objects. So my specific question is, after i add all these objects to the information flow among all the components across the 4 diagrams, how do i do a simple search and find out where the objects are flowing to and from, and in which diagram to find it. So, i never actually dragged and dropped any of the classes, i only added them by right clicking the the information flow line, then advanced, information items conveyed, and then add. Thus, when i run a search for the objects, it only shows me the original classes i created, but there is no information about which particular information flow line i added them to.
