Diagram Title / Details Block

[rh_ukrace]

Hi,

I'm wondering how to do something in Enterprise Architect (I'm using v12 at the moment). When working in the Visual Paradigm tool I can use the free draw features to create a custom block that I can place in each diagram showing the following fields: Title, Author, Checked By Author, Checked By Date,  Approved By etc., Diagram Reference Number, (similar to a technical drawing). This means configuration management information is still available when the diagrams are exported / printed etc.

So far I can't figure out how to replicate this in Enterprise Architect, the closest is the Diagram Note Element. Apart from looking terrible its not customizable and has the most basic of fields (name, Author, Version, Created Date and Updated Date so you can't implement a more useful configuration control feature.

Is there any other method I should be using to accomplish this?

Thanks!

[peterc]

Right click on the diagram background, Select Diagram and Show Diagram Details shows some basic information about the diagram. I presume the information is fixed which would not cover all of the items in your list.

How about using an element and tagged values? I'm not sure which element would be best, but a Requirement might work - you could use the Name for the drawing title and then define tagged values for each of your other fields. You could probably even create a custom shape pre-loaded with all your desired tags and create an MDG Technology so that it appears in your own custom toolbox.

[rh_ukrace]

Thanks peterc, the requirement block method or custom MGT block looks like the way to go then, my only concern is that (by default at least) it appears like a normal diagram element at looks like part of the diagram. I was hoping there would be some free draw elements that I had missed similar to Visual Paradigm.

I've attached an example of the custom block from VP (greyed and whited out the sensitive info).