RTF Bookmarks in Use Case Scenarios?

[Dorian Workman]

Is it possible to paste RTF Bookmarks into Use Case Scenario text?  

I'm trying to create a link to an element (e.g. Requirement) from within the Use Case Scenario text.

Anyone know please?

Thanks.

[«Midnight»]

Sorry Dorian,

This is not possible, at least not yet, with EA.

Some kind of 'intelligent' hyperlink feature within notes, scenarios, etc. is a persistent request here in the forum. As yet there is no such feature.

To be fair though, this is easier said than done. Working through the various use cases for this one begins to appreciate the downstream complexities, particularly when dealing with later evolution of the model.

David

[Dorian Workman]

Thanks David. I assume a feature request has already been submitted then.

[Oliver F.]

I'm trying to create a link to an element (e.g. Requirement) from within the Use Case Scenario text.

Though it is not exactly what you want: A realization link from the UC to the requirement might help you here. This makes the requirement appear as an external requirement in the requirements tab as well as have a realization entry in the RTF documentation and a hyperlink in the HTML export.

Oliver

[«Midnight»]

Thanks David. I assume a feature request has already been submitted then.

That is so, but you should submit a request regardless. Obviously this has not bubbled up on the priority list for new features. If enough of us in the user community make the request it might help to raise the visibility of the issue within Sparx.

[Dorian Workman]

Though it is not exactly what you want: A realization link from the UC to the requirement might help you here. This makes the requirement appear as an external requirement in the requirements tab as well as have a realization entry in the RTF documentation and a hyperlink in the HTML export.

Oliver

Thanks Oliver, yes I'm doing this already and this certainly is satisfactory, the link from within the scenario would be a home run though.

Thanks all.

[Dorian Workman]

That is so, but you should submit a request regardless. Obviously this has not bubbled up on the priority list for new features. If enough of us in the user community make the request it might help to raise the visibility of the issue within Sparx.

Will do thanks David.

[bioform]

I use an activity diagram to document the flow of a use case's scenario. Then the requirements are either internal requirements of the activity or are linked as a realization.

I find this very helpful for walking the user through a scenario and thus encountering the requirements as they walk the path.

Previously I had written a piece of code that allowed me to "create" a textual representation of a path through an activity diagram (then match that path to one of the named scenarios, which then the script was pasted into the "notes" section of the scenario.)  

It would not be too much of a stretch to include the "related" requirements as say indented under each "Step" of the scenario's text.

The technique relied on:

• Identifying "who" was the owner of the activity (comparing X/Y coordinates of the activity with the partitions to see if it was inside...
• Adding a descriptive sentence fragment in the notes sect of each activity... and
• using an iterative method to follow branches and keep track if I had ventured down that path yet...

Hope that gives you some ideas maybe,

David

[Dorian Workman]

Thanks David, that is an approach I hadn't considered.  That would achieve my aim, but I think it will be a little too time-consuming for my current project.  I'll give it a try at some point though.