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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Kamal Hammoutene on June 17, 2010, 11:01:27 pm

Title: UML Elements and Linked Documents
Post by: Kamal Hammoutene on June 17, 2010, 11:01:27 pm
Hi,
I like to use Linked Documents for example to propose a textual representation of a Use Case, using a Use Case template such as the Cockburn's one.

I then drag and drop Actors but also Classes, Requirements in the Linked Document or I may also create UML elements from within the Linked Document.

My question to the forum is:
in EA, how do you see the fact for example that a "Use Case" is  linked (via a "Linked Document") with the Actor/Class or Requirement that I have dragged and dropped?

Tx
Title: Re: UML Elements and Linked Documents
Post by: Geert Bellekens on June 19, 2010, 05:05:31 pm
I don't think you can.
You should still make "proper" relations between the use case and the actors/requirements/classes etc..
The linked document is only there for documenation purposes. It is not a part of your UML model.

Geert
Title: Re: UML Elements and Linked Documents
Post by: Kamal Hammoutene on June 22, 2010, 10:58:19 pm
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I don't think you can.
You should still make "proper" relations between the use case and the actors/requirements/classes etc..
The linked document is only there for documenation purposes. It is not a part of your UML model.

Geert

Thank you Geert.
I already knew that it was not possible. I was actually more in the spirit of starting a thread with the EA developpers as I don't understand why they are offering a very helpful Insert/Create UML elements in a linked document but that relationship remains hidden from the outside of the linked document.

Showing manually graphically the UML elements that have been inserted in a Linked Document attached to a Use Case for example, will very surely causing errors.