Adding Diagrams to class operation

[kam]

Hi,
I'm a software engineer and use EA for documentation of some complex classes in a realtime environment. To give better understanding of class operations, I'd like to add an activity diagram to that.
Any hint why it is not possible to add a new diagram but to paste an existing diagram to the class operation ?  

Thanks a lot
karl

[Geert Bellekens]

Karl,

I don't understand your question exactly.
Where do you want to add a diagram?
In EA you can only add diagrams nested in Elements or diagrams, not nested in an operation or an attribute.

Geert

[kam]

Gert,

I created a class "Class1" into a package and added an operation "op1" into this class.

If I do a right click onto this operation I'll get a popup menu,
allowing to paste a previous copied diagramm; but it seems not to be allowed to start a new one here.

If it is not allowed to do so, how is the "correct" way to combine a class operation with an activity diagram ?

thks,
karl

[Geert Bellekens]

Karl,

If you reload the model you will notice that the diagram isn't there anymore. Apparently this is a bug in EA to allow the "paste diagram" command on operations.

There are many ways to link behavior to an operation. What you could do is
- Create an Activity with a nested Activity diagram
- Go to the Behavior tab of the operations properties
- Click on the [...] button and select the previously created Activity

Geert

[kam]

Geert,

I'm not really satisified to do it like that, but at least it is a way.

Thks,
Karl

[Geert Bellekens]

Karl,

If you're not happy about that you'll need to talk to OMG, because that is the way it is designed to work in UML.

Geert