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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: wikitect on September 11, 2009, 08:28:53 pm

Title: Discussion Forums - Linkage to Model Elements
Post by: wikitect on September 11, 2009, 08:28:53 pm

Discussion forums seem useful but there's now way to place a hyperlink to the element being discussed in the discussion. The Copy Reference | Copy Node Path to clipboard cannot be pasted into the discussion note.

Really needs to be an integrated feature rather than something bolted onto the top.

Having done this it would be nice to be able to visually see that there are discussions concerning an element in the view and to then be able to navigate to them using a drop-down list on right-mouse-clicking i.e. 2-way integration between diagram(s) and discussion(s).

Title: Re: Discussion Forums - Linkage to Model Elements
Post by: Eve on September 14, 2009, 08:40:00 am

Have you tried dragging an element from the project browser onto the section below the post window?  Or maybe you've noticed it there and wondered what it was for?

See http://www.sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/uml_modeling_tool_features/addingobjectlinks.html

Although, I don't think there is any way to get the discussions for an element.

Title: Re: Discussion Forums - Linkage to Model Elements
Post by: Oliver F. on September 14, 2009, 05:21:42 pm

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Although, I don't think there is any way to get the discussions for an element.

However that would be worth a feature extension. The discussion forum is there to discuss model aspects and elements and diagrams can be linked to it.
So I would expect that something similar to the "find in diagrams" context would be extremely helpful (eg. "find in forum topics").
Plus an additional search filter criteria.
Or an addition to the model view showing all elements in topics plus a backlink to the topic.

This one has my vote.

Oliver

Title: Re: Discussion Forums - Linkage to Model Elements
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on September 14, 2009, 06:49:06 pm

Sounds good to me...

Paolo

Title: Re: Discussion Forums - Linkage to Model Elements
Post by: Graham_Moir on September 14, 2009, 07:58:49 pm

and me...

Title: Re: Discussion Forums - Linkage to Model Elements
Post by: «Midnight» on September 15, 2009, 09:42:05 am

Ditto!

Title: Re: Discussion Forums - Linkage to Model Elements
Post by: Peter Parslow on September 21, 2009, 09:17:15 pm

We'd also like this.

And why can I only link an element to a post, not to a topic (or even category?).

We're at a review stage, and it seemed sensible to me to create a category for each package, with topic for each class, and posts/threads for each comment against the class. It's a bit simplistic (some comments cross classes & even packages), but combined with an ability to search / display the discussion alongside the model & we'd have a powerful review tracking tool.