Change properties of multiple elements at once

[Minnow]

Please add the ability to select a number of elements and change shared properties (e.g., alternate image, display of text below image, etc.) at one time to greatly speed up and simplify diagramming using image icons.

For example, if the user drops 8 Node elements on a Deployment diagram and wants to change the picture for each to an icon representing a server and then hide the text underneath the element, he must select an element, do CTRL-SHIFT-W or go through the menus, select the alternate image and click Okay...8 times.  Then he must repeat the process for hiding the text...8 more times. This is a huge pain for designing nice diagrams using image icons.  It would be much better to select all 8 elements, right click, and be able to change multiple properties at once from a single dialog.

[RoyC]

Could you do what you want using Template elements in a Template Package?

[Minnow]

Could you do what you want using Template elements in a Template Package?

That doesn't seem like it would support selecting a number of items and changing them.  Are you saying that a template package could be used to create elements that have the right properties from the start?

Thanks

[qwerty]

That's what he's trying to say. MDG would do the same job more sophisticated and with a higher start-up.

Just forget the "multiple selection" question. This has been asked for since many years (a decade or so).

q.

[node.pl]

For some reasons Sparx refuse to enable multiselect edit capability for years. It is obviously needed - I cannot understand their stubbornness.

Anyway... please see http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1427040005

you can find there a simple script for workaround. Script uses multiselect in the project browser but you can fairly simply change it to run on diagram elements. It is also possible to add custom windows but it needs Visual Studio experience, so it is not so easy if you have none (like me).

qwerty's books are helpful :-)

Actually there is simple workaround using scripting feature...