Any way to create a live link in a tagged value to another element?

[je-van]

Is there any way to create an active link in a tagged value to another element? This can be done in the notes section of an element, but can't see a way to do this in a tagged value. The RefGUID tag value type allows you to select a valid element, but doesn't create an active link to that element in a model.

Thanks.

[PeterHeintz]

The only way with tagged values, is RefGUID but as you mentioned it do not provide you a direct link to the element in the project browser.

What do you want to achieve with such a link?

There are a lot of possibilities to link elements in EA, e.g. each time you draw a line between two elements you creating a kind of link, aren’t you?

[je-van]

Hi Peter - Thanks for your reply. What I'm trying to do is connect my high level conceptual model classes to the more techie classes in my mostly-logical model. So in the tags of the conceptual level class, I want to put a live link to the associated technical class(es). Right now I'm adding that live link in the notes of the conceptual class, but it seems more elegant to put them in the tags, plus someone has requested that I put them in the tags.

[Geert Bellekens]

I'm not sure what you mean by "live link", but a refguid tagged value relation is almost as good as actual relation such as a trace.

If you wan to navigate the relation (find the related elements) you can since v12(.1?) use the Traceability view (check the options)
Another alternative (that also works in previous versions) is my free EA Navigator add-in

Geert

[PeterHeintz]

I use for that kind of traces the traceability matrix.
So I put e.g. in the rows the connectional stuff and in the columns the technical stuff and connect both with suitable associations, dependencies, refines,..

The configuration of the matrix you can store, and by having such a matrix, it is easy to find out e.g. what concepts do not have a technical representation.

[je-van]

Thank you both, Peter and Geert. I'll take a look at these options.