Peculiar QuickLinker Definition

[Jayson]

Heyo all

I have found the following quicklinker definition row in the BPMN2.0 MDG file (note there are a LOT of these):

Activity,BusinessProcess,Activity,BPELProcess,BPMN2.0::*;,,,<none>,,,,,,,,TRUE,,,,,,,

Source Element Type: Activity
Source Stereotype Filter: Business Process
Target Element Type: Activity
Target Stereotype Filter: BPELProcess
Diagram Filter: BPMN2.0::*;
New Element Type:
New Element Stereotype:
New Link Type:<none>
New Link Stereotype:

So the question is what does <none> in the new link type achieve?
The purpose of quicklinkers AFAIK is to define new connector options between the source and target, so if the new link is <none> what is the quicklinker definition  actually achieving?

Thanks in advance.

Jays :-)

[qwerty]

You probably should not go into depth of these. They are simply not manageable. The new metaconstraint will be the way to go (though they still have their drawbacks too).

N.B. you posted this twice (one incomplete...)

q.

[Jayson]

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I agree,. I'm not trying to use quicklinkers but rather am writing a simple routine to convert them into relationships.
In order to do a complete job I need to understand everything about quick linkers, the good the bad and the very ugly.

Cheers

[Paolo F Cantoni]

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I agree,. I'm not trying to use quicklinkers but rather am writing a simple routine to convert them into relationships.
In order to do a complete job, I need to understand everything about quick linkers, the good the bad and the very ugly.

Cheers

(my emphasis)
So you ARE a masochist, after all, Jays!


Good Luck, let us know what the result is...


Paolo

[Jayson]

So I've done it for pretty much the rest of the quicklinkers and, for example, except for these strange quicklinkers I am able to import and graphically display the entire BPMN2.0 MDG.

[Takeshi K]

Hello Jayson,

About <none> in your question, please see the 'Spreadsheet Method' section in the following help page.

https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/hiding_default_quick_linker_se.html

HTH,

[Jayson]

Fantastic! Thanks so much.
I looked in the MDG Technology manual (which I had assumed was the bible) and this wasn't mentioned there at all.
So it seems that this is the old way of implementing _HideUmlLinks.

Cheers :-)