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philchudley

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Attribute Qualifiers
« on: April 19, 2010, 07:03:17 pm »
I have noticed (new to EA 8.0?) that it is possible to create a Qualifier for an attribute in a class.

Some of the properties of this Qualifier are

Redfined Property
Subsetted Property

Can someone explain in plain language, what is the use of this feature, (great if supplemented with a practical example).

Help and User Guide not much help as it just states "The Qualifiers dialofg is used to define the Qualifier of an Association connector end, Port, Part, or Attribute"

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Re: Attribute Qualifiers
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2010, 07:23:39 pm »
Phil,

I think (I'm not sure) that those properties are used to indicate that you override the definition of an attribute in a subclass.

I think it is a UML standard they have now implemented.

Geert

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Re: Attribute Qualifiers
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2010, 07:31:50 pm »
Thanks Geert, that does make some sense
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Re: Attribute Qualifiers
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2010, 09:38:29 am »
The topic you quoted from is actually the child of a more general topic on Qualifiers. Did you see that? The parent topic provides a few examples of graphical use. Please let me know if doesn't help much more.
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