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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: FDavid on January 05, 2012, 10:33:00 am

Title: How do I create an Activity Parameter?
Post by: FDavid on January 05, 2012, 10:33:00 am

How do I create an Activity Parameter?

EA Help is not clear, so I'm stuck!  Can anyone give me a step-by-step explanation?

Thank you!!

FDavid

Title: Re: How do I create an Activity Parameter?
Post by: RoyC on January 05, 2012, 11:05:44 am

Are you trying to create a parameter of an Activity, or an Activity Parameter Node?

There are Help topics on creating both of these objects - at what point are you stuck?

Title: Re: How do I create an Activity Parameter?
Post by: FDavid on January 05, 2012, 11:20:44 am

Roy,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I'm trying to add an Activity Parameter Node.  The Help instruction states:

Right-click on the element and select the Embedded Elements | Add Activity Parameter context menu option.

Right-click on what element, exactly?  I want to add an activity parameter node, which attaches to the entire activity, not to a particular element within the activity diagram.

This is very easy to accomplish in RSA, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it in EA.  Thanks again for your help.

FDavid

Title: Re: How do I create an Activity Parameter?
Post by: KP on January 05, 2012, 11:56:06 am

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Right-click on what element, exactly?

You have to right-click the Activity on a diagram. The Embedded Elements command is not on an Activity's Project Browser context menu.

Title: Re: How do I create an Activity Parameter?
Post by: RoyC on January 05, 2012, 03:57:40 pm

Yes, as Neil says, you are clicking on an Activity element on a diagram (and the Activity element effectively is the diagram, as it contains other elements such as an Activity Parameter node or two).

That whole section of the Help is more-or-less a library of descriptions of creating and working with elements and connectors on diagrams.  We are gradually working through the entire Help file to make each topic more self-explanatory, so at some point in the future we might tighten up the explanations of where, when and how you create each type of object.

Title: Re: How do I create an Activity Parameter?
Post by: FDavid on January 12, 2012, 08:47:44 am

An Activity Parameter Node applies to the entire activity, not to an action or activity within an activity diagram.

Guess I shouldn't compare this to RSA, but I don't have any other point of reference, so . . . . . . within RSA, an Activity Parameter Node applies to the entire activity diagram, and visually appears as a small box on the edge of the activity diagram (not on the edge of an action or activity within an activity diagram).  The Activity Parameter Node specifies input and/or output parameters for the entire activity diagram, NOT for a specific action or activity within the activity diagram.

Perhaps RSA doesn't have such a concept?

Wish I could send you a print screen so I could show you visually what I'm trying to do.

Title: Re: How do I create an Activity Parameter?
Post by: KP on January 12, 2012, 09:15:46 am

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Wish I could send you a print screen so I could show you visually what I'm trying to do.

Send it to http://mailto:[email protected]