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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Paolo F Cantoni on February 08, 2010, 11:20:45 pm

Title: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on February 08, 2010, 11:20:45 pm

While the new Diagram Filter functionality is cute, it REALLY needs the ability to filter connectors in the same way.

Is this coming?

Votes?

Paolo

Title: Re: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: salayande on February 13, 2010, 01:11:38 am

I support this feature request. Any chance we'd be getting a multi-dimensional matrix?

Segun

Title: Re: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: skiwi on February 16, 2010, 06:30:00 am

Vote, anything that makes connectors more like first class citizens

Title: Re: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: Manfred Kröpfli on October 27, 2010, 10:17:39 pm

I'm 100% positve to this request.

Title: Re: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: Graham_Moir on November 09, 2010, 04:38:18 am

Gets my vote

Title: Re: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: DanG83616 on November 10, 2010, 03:17:10 am

Yeah

Title: Re: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: skiwi on November 10, 2010, 08:19:43 am

See also
Managing Future State (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1274238930) - support the feature request described there
and
Comparing diagrams (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1282676236)

Title: Re: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: DanG83616 on November 10, 2010, 06:08:10 pm

I'm not sure I'd recommend using the filtering mechanism for version diffing. Could turn into a mess when just creating a new diagram for the future state would be pretty quick. Notes can be used to call attention to the differences in the diagram depicting future state. I have tried to do it with just one diagram and was dissatisfied. Filtering for that purpose would not have helped enough to avoid a new diagram.

I still support the feature as a means to elide certain aspects of a single design. Hmmm... not coming up with a likely use case. Everything I can think of involves also eliding an element which naturally hides the connector.

Dan

Title: Re: v8 - Diagram Filters need Connector Filters
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on November 11, 2010, 10:56:45 am

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Everything I can think of involves also eliding an element which naturally hides the connector.

Dan

As you say, Dan, therein lies the essential problem...

Paolo