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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: felipe on November 07, 2003, 07:51:00 am

Title: Operations in an Actor for SPEM
Post by: felipe on November 07, 2003, 07:51:00 am

The SPEM specification uses an Actor to represent a ProcessPerformer. The Actor is the performer of Activities and these are represented as Operations in an UML extension. The problem is that is not allowed in EA to include Operations in an Actor. Is it possible include this feature (or take away the restriction), that permits to include Operations into the Actors?

Title: Re: Operations in an Actor for SPEM
Post by: SpoonsJTD on January 29, 2004, 11:43:36 am

You can add them by dragging the attribute to the actor on a diagram.  Unfortunately, EA doesn't recognize you've added it until you reload the project.

The UML spec says that actors should be able to have operations, so I think this is a bug in EA.  In the meantime, you might create classes that correspond to the actors the same way that the SPEM spec says to create operations for activities that correspond to Use Case activities.