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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: MOF_Frank_CHENG on August 21, 2009, 10:12:17 pm

Title: Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereotype
Post by: MOF_Frank_CHENG on August 21, 2009, 10:12:17 pm

We are trying to create deployment diagrams with multiple views. It would be great to have a way to have hide/unhide objects and relationships based on Type & Stereotype.

It appears that the only option we have now is to make a copy of the diagram and selectively delete elements. The "Select By Type" feature is helpful but unfortunately it does allow selecting relationships.

Title: Re: Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereo
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on August 24, 2009, 11:37:40 am

Gets my vote...

Set Feature Visibility [Ctrl+Shift+y] already has this concept (or enough of it) for Features, but it would be useful for Vertexes and Arcs as well.

Paolo

Title: Re: Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereo
Post by: MOF_Frank_CHENG on August 24, 2009, 09:52:48 pm

Thanks Paolo,

After a bit more investigation, I found another feature that is also helpful. Set Visible Relations from the Current Connector toolbar[Ctrl+Shift+i] allows hiding/displaying individual relationships. This should be enough to create the layered diagram approach that I am trying to produce. What would be great is to take this a step further and allow hiding/displaying objects and relationships by type and stereotype and saving these settings as named diagram views. For example, an infrastructure diagram might have a deployment view, a security view, communication view, etc. This capability would be significantly enhance reuse.

Title: Re: Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereo
Post by: «Midnight» on August 25, 2009, 12:49:07 am

Very much so.

I've always felt this was something of an omission. It seems almost strange that it is has not found its way into the product.

High time it does!

Title: Re: Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereo
Post by: skiwi on August 25, 2009, 12:57:17 pm

I am very keen on this too, to allow more reuse of diagrams etc.

Title: Re: Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereo
Post by: Thelonius on August 25, 2009, 05:59:29 pm

This is something that would be extremely useful to me.

+1

Title: Re: Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereo
Post by: MatthiasH on August 26, 2009, 01:22:09 am

+1 !!!

It is not the first time this general idea comes up:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1249473871

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1241160674

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1245298266

I think I sent this also as Feature Request to Sparx as a consequence of one of the topics listed above.

Regards,
Matthias