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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: PeterHeintz on April 11, 2017, 10:17:20 pm

Title: Allow to create links without having a diagram
Post by: PeterHeintz on April 11, 2017, 10:17:20 pm

Currently there are two possibilities to create relationships between two elements/items:

-Within a diagram or,
-By using the Relationship Matrix

The Relationship Matrix shows that there are use cases where it is better to maintain relations without a diagram. However if the relevant items (source/target) are spread over the whole repository and are of any type, the Relationship Matrix gets unhandy.

In these cases it would help if EA would allow to add links within Properties/Links and in the Relationship view, rather than only allowing to delete existing links.

In such cases I currently create a diagram, drag and drop the relevant elements, create the relationship and delete the diagram, just because I do not need it. What is really not very straight forward. ::)

Title: Re: Allow to create links without having a diagram
Post by: VKN on April 12, 2017, 09:34:46 am

http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/13.0/modeling_tools/createlink.html

Title: Re: Allow to create links without having a diagram
Post by: PeterHeintz on April 12, 2017, 04:06:37 pm

Yes, I did not mention that feature.
However, just having a huge list of elements is not very handy. I have more a link dialog in mind like when classifying items, where you can navigate through the browser or where you can search for something.

Title: Re: Allow to create links without having a diagram
Post by: VKN on April 12, 2017, 04:14:55 pm

You may want to send a feature request to sparx.