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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Emilio on August 31, 2009, 06:53:50 pm

Title: Move/Copy attributes/methods to another element
Post by: Emilio on August 31, 2009, 06:53:50 pm

During the making of a model I find myself many times needing to move and/or copy a class attribute or method to another class. Normally you just copy a class as new to start a new one if it is similar in some way but other times you already have an existent one. Currently one has to retype the whole thing :(

It would be nice to have an element (class/struct/interface) context menu item to copy (and/or move) an attribute or method to another element in the model.

Title: Re: Move/Copy attributes/methods to another elemen
Post by: Geert Bellekens on August 31, 2009, 07:01:04 pm

Emilio,

There is a way to achieve this.
To copy you need to drag the attributes/operations from the project browser onto the target class on a diagram. This will create a copy of the attributes/operations (you can multiselect and then drag) in the target class.
To move attrs/ops you can drag them onto the target class in the project browser.

Geert

Title: Re: Move/Copy attributes/methods to another elemen
Post by: RoyC on September 01, 2009, 10:46:42 am

See

http://sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/modeling_with_uml/copyingattributes.html

and

http://sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/modeling_with_uml/movingattributesandoperatio.html