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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: mse on November 06, 2015, 02:11:54 am

Title: UML Links in EA not supported?
Post by: mse on November 06, 2015, 02:11:54 am

Are UML Links supported in component diagrams within EA? Other tools have this construct but EA only has assembly, Delegation, and association. I could get away with association, but I would prefer links.

Title: Re: UML Links in EA not supported?
Post by: Uffe on November 06, 2015, 02:37:34 am

Hello,


Well, yes... ish.

There's no "Link" in the toolbox, but the toolbox does not always show all permissible connectors, just the most common ones. If you use the quick link to draw a connector between two objects in a component diagram (or an object diagram), the pop-up menu will have "Link" as the first item.

However, once the "Link" connector has been drawn, it appears that it is in fact an Association (it's referred to as such in its properties dialog). So there doesn't appear to be a cleanly defined "Link" connector type.

This is in EA 11.1. It may have changed in 12.

HTH,


/Uffe