Control-Drag an Activity Should Create Pins

[JohnWSaundersIII]

When I control-drag an Activity onto the diagram and select "as invocation of Activity (Action)", the CallBehaviorAction is created, but without input or output pins corresponding to the Activity Parameters. One must add these manually.

It would be nice if pins were created, and with the proper type.

John

[jeshaw2]

When I control-drag an Activity onto the diagram and select "as invocation of Activity (Action)", the CallBehaviorAction is created, but without input or output pins corresponding to the Activity Parameters. One must add these manually.

I'm having trouble reproducing your problem.  Can you be more specific on what you are doing?  For example:

• From where are you dragging the activity? (toolbox or project tree)
• Are you using a left or right button drag?
• Are you dragging onto an activity diagram?
• Where are you seeing the option "as invocation of Activity (Action)"?
• Which version of EA?
• etc.
  

[JohnWSaundersIII]

1) I dragged from the project view
2) I used left-control-drag
3) I dragged onto an activity diagram
4) The "as invocation ..." option appears on the dialog box which appears as soon as I drop the activity.
5) EA 6.1.788.

To reproduce this, I just created a new project with only the "Dynamic View". I created an activity diagram in the view. I added an activity. I added an embedded activity parameter to the activity.

I then created another activity diagram. I control-dragged the activity onto the diagram. The dialog displayed, and I chose "as invocation". The correct action appeared, but had no input pin corresponding to the activity parameter I had added.

John

[jeshaw2]

Yes! Now I see...

I'm having the same problem.

Add my vote to this.  

I think Sparks needs to review their logic on how they handle pins and object nodes on activity diagrams.  I have another post on this subject in this discussion area.