Copy diagram shallow

[mahe]

Hello everybody,

in my EA project I have some sequence diagrams. Because is use Polarion i have installed the EAPO connector to my enterprise architect. The plugin can't find uses cases wich are created by interaction to an use case diagram. So i created a newe package where I copied all my diagrams in that the plug in can find it an export it to Polarion. I copied the sequence diagrams as shallow because i hoped that if i change the original diagram it will automatically change the copied diagram but there aren't changes on the copied diagram and if I changed this there are also no changes on the original diagram.

Is it possible to solve this problem any way?

The bug of the EAPO connector is already reported but I don't know how long it takes that this problem is solved.

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards
Markus

[Geert Bellekens]

Markus,

Sequence diagrams behave a bit different from any other diagrams.
Messages are tied to a single diagram, and even a shallow copy will duplicate the messages.

But anyway, I think your idea idea of "shallow copy" is not what it actually does.
It still creates a new diagram, but it shows the same entities as the original.
Moving an entity on the original diagram doesn't move it on the copy/diagram.

You might be able to get what you need by dragging your diagram onto a new diagram and choose the option "diagram frame"

Geert

[mahe]

Hello Geert,

thank you for your very fast answer. sorry for that stupid question but where can I find the "diagram frame" option? If i drag my diagram onto a new a new window will be open with the text
Drop Diagram As...
-Interaction Occurrence
-Diagram Reference (is disabled)
-Hyperlink
-List

Thank you

Markus

[mahe]

Hi,

I solved my problem. I created a new sequence diagram and want to drag the other onto. That was wrong. with an class diagram for example it works fine.

And the solution with the diagram frame works perfect for my usage.

Thank you very much for this perfect and really fast help

Best regards

Markus

[Geert Bellekens]

Hi,

I solved my problem. I created a new sequence diagram and want to drag the other onto. That was wrong. with an class diagram for example it works fine.

And the solution with the diagram frame works perfect for my usage.

Thank you very much for this perfect and really fast help

Best regards

Markus

You're welcome.
As I mentioned, sequence diagrams behave different from any other diagram in EA.

Geert