Can I suppress the Object Classifier in Name Compartment?

[James Bayley]

This question was first raised in 2009 but I cannot find an answer.

Is there a way to suppress the Object Classifier in the Name Compartment so that I can simplify my diagrams when showing them to non-technical users? At the moment I have to reproduce them in PowerPoint.

[qwerty]

I don't think there's a native setting. You can resort to stereotyping these objects and assign a shape script.

q.

[James Bayley]

"stereotyping these objects and assign a shape script"

I don't know what these words mean but I will look them up!

Most things in EA seem absurdly difficult the first time you do them and obvious later so if it just takes few seconds to put a script in this thread I would be eternally grateful otherwise I will have a go at doing it myself.

[qwerty]

Basically stereotyping is assigning a stereotype to an element. Usually that requires defining a profile where they are defined. And it should be done this way for many reasons. However, you can (for testing/temporary purpose) create a stereotype via Configure/REference Date/UML Types create a stereotype on the fly. Name it as you wish and make the base Object. Assign a shape scipt and put in something like:

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shape main{
h_align = "center";
Println("#name#");
Rectangle(0, 0, 100, 100);
}Now you can assign this stereotype to an Object and it will render just the name.

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[James Bayley]

  Thank you for help!