Nesting Activities and elements in Project Browser

[kiwibloke]

How do you nest Activities and other elements in the Project Browser - and, therefore, also in the navigation of the tree in the HTML report?

It seems possible to drag and drop Actors to become children of OrganisationUnits.  However, I don't seem able to drag and drop an Activity to become a child of a Business Process Diagram.

Any ideas as to how to do this, or why it may not currently be possible?

Thanks,
Martyn

[Geert Bellekens]

Martin,

Only UML Elements can own other UML Elements.
Since Diagrams are no UML Elements they cannot own anything.

You need to think otherwise:
What does your Business Process Diagram represent? A Business Process?
In that case it would be logical to nest the Diagram under the element it represents.
then if you add an Activity on this diagram, it would automatically become an owned element of your business process, which probably is what it should be.

Diagram are not really a part of your model, they just provide some convenient way of reading/editing your model.
(see also my rant UML is NOT about diagrams!)


Geert

[kiwibloke]

Thanks Geert.  Much appreciated.

Cheers,
Martyn

[Ian Mitchell]

@Geert - I really liked that post - have you put it on the Community site? We should get some T Shirts made up for it!

[Geert Bellekens]

@Geert - I really liked that post - have you put it on the Community site? We should get some T Shirts made up for it!

Thanks, yeah, it is a nice T-shirt slogan isn't it

No not on the community site, in general they (Scott H.) don't like topics that are not specific to EA.
So you'll find some of my EA specific topics on the community site, but not the general UML stuff.

Geert

[OpenIT Solutions]

You know the issue is not just limited to UML. Its the difference between 'Modeling' and 'Drawing'.

[Geert Bellekens]

You know the issue is not just limited to UML. Its the difference between 'Modeling' and 'Drawing'.

True