Relations between attributes in EA

[goldis11]

Hi,

for our analyse purpose we need to solve following issue: in EA (Entreprise Architect) we have several classes containg several attributes. We need to define many relations between attributes of several classes but we do not know how? To define relations through notes is impossible and through "initial value" - its very work intensive and could generate many mistakes  

The best idea to solve it seems to create any application (plug-in) which allows to choose several sourse classes, allows to identify required attributes of choosed classes and allows to write relations (association) between attributes (in some case eventually any kind of converse prescript)

Can anybody help?

Thx a lot

[Frank Horn]

It's certainly possible to write such an AddIn, although you would have to decide on where to save your additional data.

Anyway, what do you need this for? What are relations between attributes are supposed to mean? It's not a UML concept, but maybe there is a way to model the information you need in a UML compliant way.

[goldis11]

"relations between attributes" mean that to satisfied our analyse we need to arrange following: imagine 3 classes containing several attributes. at the beginning of the flow (we analyse flow) each attribute is set with concrete value and is part of class A. But during flow value will be changed and also moved from class A to class B and finally with another value to class C. How could we describe this behaviour of particular attributes? We need to say that attribute A from class A will be moved to class B (C) and usually with different value.

[«Midnight»]

Perhaps you could use a combination of collaboration (perhaps) and composite structure diagrams. In the latter case use the 'alternate' notation for attributes, as specified in UML, and which is supported by EA.