drag and drop auto instance not working

[jrmcdona]

I am trying to drag and drop an object from the Business Process model onto a Robustness diagram. However, I cannot get it to create a new instance. In the tools-options-diagram-behaviors, I have the auto instance unchecked. I have tried both checking and not checking this and also have tried holding down the Ctrl key, but nothing is working. I dont get the auto instance alert message either?

Anybody ran into this before?

Thanks for your help!

[mbc]

If you wrote correctly that you are trying to create an instance of an *object*, then that is the problem. You can't instance objects, only classes. Objects are already instances.

Mikkel

[jrmcdona]

Thanks for your help. I thought that you could drag and drop the object on to the diagram and create a NEW instance of it, in this case my new instance would be saved as an entity.  Though apparently I am going about it the wrong way!

thanks!

[sargasso]

If you are trying to copy an object on the same diagram then ctl-C, shift-ctl-V is about the quickest - It even asks nicely for the new instance name, which you can leave blank if desired.

Otherwise just ctl-dragging the class from the tree to the diagram creates a new instance (or I thought it did?)

hth
Bruce