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matthew.james

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Help - element and connector labels
« on: July 12, 2018, 03:45:18 pm »
Elements and connectors appear to have multiple labels, or at least label positions - but how do I set text for each label ?

Specifically for connectors, the 'label visibility' suggests that there are top and bottom labels for middle, source, target and realized item.  By default, it appears that the connector name is set into the middle top label and the stereotype into the middle bottom.  But how are the others set ?

The user guide discusses various options for controlling label appearance but all rely on selecting the label - which can't be done if it has no text.  I can't find anything in the user guide about how to set the text values.  Or are they all controlled by model features in some pre-defined or connector specific way ?

Is there any way for me to 'override' the text in these labels - for example to set the bottom middle label to something different to the stereotype.
Note: I am working with Archimate shapes and one thing I'm trying to do is to work around a bug (feature?) whereby the stereotype is not displayed as the middle bottom text label (see http://www.sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,40127.0.html)

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Re: Help - element and connector labels
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2018, 06:39:58 pm »
Specifically for connectors, the 'label visibility' suggests that there are top and bottom labels for middle, source, target and realized item.  By default, it appears that the connector name is set into the middle top label and the stereotype into the middle bottom.  But how are the others set ?

I'm not anywhere near a machine with Sparx EA on it but look at the other tabs for the properties of a connector.  On the one with the multiplicity/cardinality you can set the source and target descriptions.