Custom transformations of diagram elements

[mr.sverrir]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering whether it was possible to successfully execute custom transformations (provided I can write one) on elements that are not of a type Class/Interface, for example I want to transform elements that are as exotic as Requirement, Issue, Use Case, etc.

In other words, are transformations meant to work only with Classes or similar elements as the source, or is there maybe more freedom?

Thanks.

[«Midnight»]

You should be able to do this.

There are probably some limitations, but these might well apply to class models as well.

[mr.sverrir]

Thank you. I will definitely try that once I get my head around it.

[«Midnight»]

On second thought I might be wrong here. I seem to remember that transformations might be limited in the type of diagrams (or elements) they act on.

[«Midnight»]

I looked through it again. I really cannot tell. EA can certainly create objects of just about any kind, but I don't see anything that says (explicitly) that it can take any element as input.

Anyone know for sure?

[Eve]

They can take any element type as input.  But even though it may not be a class you need to use the macros like %className%.

Use the %elemType% macro to get the type of the current element.