Transitivity of 'Realization' (relation)

[t_s]

Consider the following scenario. There are several requirements (e.g., hundreds) and have several layers of parent-child relations represented, say using the the aggregation to whole relation. Further suppose that there is a component or use case that realizes a parent requirement (and parent has several layers of child requirements).

Does EA have any capability to (essentially) make the 'realization' relation/connector transitive over the child requirements: If the parent is realized in some entity, then all of it children must also be realized in the [same] entity?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

No. You have to write your own script/code to materialize the (derived) transitive relationships (since you can't render them on a diagram otherwise).  You will also need to be able to mark and render the derivation correctly.

EA supports the IsDerived property ONLY for Associations.  We have implemented a more generalised IsDerived property for ALL relationship types and use a common rendering to indicate that.

Determining which is the canonical and which the derived relationship can, at times, be problematic.

HTH,
Paolo