Something like keywords, but with a dropdown?

[Benno Dielmann]

Hi everybody,

The keywords field, as useful as it is, is only a text field, which means that e.g. filters will fail on an element if someone mistyped a keyword for it...

I'd like to have something like centrally defined keywords, selectable via a dropdown box. Is there any way to achieve this with EA's features? I'd go for tagged values, but it seems that it isn't possible to define filters for these...

Or am I just too blind to see the obvious?

[Geert Bellekens]

Benno,

You have all kinds of options for tagged values.
You can have a list of possible values (dropdown), a reference to another model item and more.
See http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/9.3/standard_uml_models/tagged_value_types.html
for more info.

Geert

[qwerty]

He's talking about the Keyword property, Geert.

q,

[Geert Bellekens]

I'd go for[highlight] tagged values[/highlight], but it seems that it isn't possible to define filters for these...?

Geert

[Benno Dielmann]

You are both right, I was talking about the keywords property as well as tagged values...

So thanks for your answer, Geert.

It's very cool that it's possible to define dropdown tagged values, but the most important thing for me is - is it possible to filter for these? It's possible to define diagram filters even for something like "selectable" but not for tagged values...