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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: skiwi on April 01, 2020, 11:35:48 am
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I looked to add a new column to the search pane (no pain jokes this time sorry).
But the field chooser actually doesn't offer anything much by way of additional fields.
What I was looking for isI suspect this may turn into a feature request, but looking for feedback first - and anything I have missed
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I looked to add a new column to the search pane (no pain jokes this time sorry).
But the field chooser actually doesn't offer anything much by way of additional fields.
What I was looking for isI suspect this may turn into a feature request, but looking for feedback first - and anything I have missed
I asked for metatype (in addition to type & stereotype)
From the Help file (Define a Stereotype as a Metatype) :
If you want to hide the identity of a custom element as a stereotyped UML element, you can set the _metatype special attribute in the Stereotype element that defines it. The _metatype attribute also makes custom element types appear in contexts where only Enterprise Architect's inbuilt types would normally appear; for example, in the lists of element types in the Relationship Matrix.
In this example from SysML, Block is defined as a Stereotype element that extends a UML Class.
However, a SysML user is not interested in UML Classes, only in SysML Blocks.
(my emphasis) It's confusing for the general user - whom we have trained to think in terms of Metatype (rather than Type + Stereotype) to have to see Type & Stereotype