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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Filip Hendrickx on June 04, 2013, 06:22:42 pm

Title: Show Activity notes and attributes
Post by: Filip Hendrickx on June 04, 2013, 06:22:42 pm

Hi all.

For most UML elements, you can show the notes and attributes via Feature and Compartment visibility. However, this doesn't work for UML Activities, nor for derived elements like BPMN Activities or Archimate DataObjects.

A workaround I found is to link a note element to the element's notes. You can also link the note element to the Activity's attributes, but you then need to create a separate note for each attribute, which is not practical.

Is there a way to show an Activity's notes and attributes, or another workaround?

Best regards,

Filip.

(http://users.telenet.be/filip.hendrickx/SparxEA/NotesAndAttributes.png)

Title: Re: Show Activity notes and attributes
Post by: qwerty on June 04, 2013, 08:15:03 pm

I guess you found the only way to do it.

It would be possible to write a shape script for an an element being filled by some automation. But that's probably overkill.

q.

Title: Re: Show Activity notes and attributes
Post by: Dermot on June 05, 2013, 02:30:00 pm

With an Activity you can set these to rectangle notation:
Context Menu | Advanced | Use Rectangle Notation
Then in Feature Visibility - set Show Element Notes on.