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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Maanu on November 25, 2010, 03:28:21 pm

Title: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Maanu on November 25, 2010, 03:28:21 pm

Hi,

I would like attach notes to vertical lines (lifelines corresponding to classes) in sequence diagrams. How can we do that? I am using EA 7.1

Thanks!

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Geert Bellekens on November 25, 2010, 05:21:29 pm

Maanu,

In 8.0 you can simply use the note link to connect notes with lifelines. Is this not working in 7.1?

Geert

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Maanu on November 25, 2010, 06:34:33 pm

I do not understand your answer. Can you give the steps to follow to link a note to a lifeline?

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Geert Bellekens on November 25, 2010, 06:55:36 pm

- put a lifeline and a note on the diagram
- click on the "note link" icon in your toolbar
- drag from the note to the lifeline.

Geert

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: AlanT on November 29, 2010, 08:18:57 am

BTW, why can`t a user connect a note to a message?

                   Alan

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Geert Bellekens on November 29, 2010, 02:36:47 pm

yes, sure.

Geert

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: AlanT on November 29, 2010, 09:32:08 pm

No, I mean EA does not allow a user to connect a note to a message.  It should.

                  Alan

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Geert Bellekens on November 29, 2010, 11:49:52 pm

Alan,

I misunderstood, but yes you can connect notes to messages.
Right click on Note|Advanced|set attached links.

Geert

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: AlanT on November 30, 2010, 01:28:35 pm

Geert,

     Thanks!   8-)

   This does seem stange that you cannot simply drag an arrow over to the message, like you can to other objects.

                                     Alan  

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Geert Bellekens on November 30, 2010, 05:18:46 pm

Strange? No, EAUI Yes  :P

Geert

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Eve on December 01, 2010, 08:38:59 am

Works quite nicely in the build of EA I'm using.  Of course it's not ready for release yet.  But it's coming.

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: Geert Bellekens on December 01, 2010, 03:19:14 pm

Simon, enough already, stop teasing us ;)
It 8.1 still planned for this year, or has the release date slipped into 2011 already?

Geert

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: yonatan.lehman on February 01, 2022, 04:47:24 am

12 years later and I still only get a dialog with a list of messages in an order that does not correspond to their order in sequence and I have to guess which message I'm going to connect to (two messages that only differ by the parameter which is not shown) 
Yes it does draw it when I click the select box - but ......
am I missing something?

Title: Re: Attach Note to Sequence Diagrams
Post by: yonatan.lehman on February 01, 2022, 05:00:20 am

Found it (trial and error)
Drag an arrow from the comment to the message and shift click !
To delete it you still need to go via the Advanced Set attached links menu.