Add Element to package - Type dropdown - "Trap for young players"

[Paolo F Cantoni]

In the Add elements to package dialog, there is a Type drop-down.

The documentation says:
Type
Click on the drop-down arrow and select the required element type from the list.
The list of element types is derived from the diagram or technology shown in the 'Toolset' field.
What the documentation doesn't make explicit is that to appear on the list in the drop-down, the metatype MUST appear on at least one toolbox in that technology.

Having just spent some considerable time trying to figure out why one of our metatypes wasn't appearing on the list, it would be helpful to make that clearer.

Thoughts?
Reported,
Paolo

[qwerty]

Ah, interesting. A colleague just claimed a similar issue when showing a diagram as matrix where connectors did not show in the drop down. I thought it might be that the connector list only shows metatypes and not stereotypes - while elements do show stereotypes. So I claimed it to the Consequential Inconsistency (CI, isn't it?) of EA. Will have to cross check...

q.

P.S. Weil, it just looks like CI/EAUI. Despite the fact that Show as Matrix and Relationship Matrix have been implemented by two separate not communicating departments, the Show as Matrix only does offer a set of connectors on creation that seems completely decoupled of the toolbox. I'm fighting with that and the QL on another frontier. Traps everywhere.