Activity Diagram Semantics

[jas11]

I’m trying to create an activity diagram but I notice EA doesn’t allow activities with the same name to be added onto the same diagram. For example, if I have a common activity called “Log Event” which needs to be called along the different control paths of the activity diagram, how can I depict this?

[philchudley]

Use a Call Behaviour Action and not an Activity

When re-using an Activity from the Project Browser select

Invocation rather than Link

Cheers

Phil

[Geert Bellekens]

Jas11,

You activity diagram should never not contain action just like a state machine diagram never contains state machines.
For more information see: UML Best Practice: There are no Activities on an Activity Diagram

Geert

[jas11]

Perfect. Thanks Phil and Geert for the explanation.