Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: bacz on November 27, 2020, 02:38:24 pm
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Hi,
I have been working with other EA tools, and I was wondering, there is a common use case I have that I have not been able to figure our if Sparx can do it.
I want to create a single diagram, with say 4 diagram frames on of the SAME diagram, a kind of a dashboard.
I want to colour connectors and elements different on each frame. to represent say risk on one, cost on the other, effort, business value etc. all using the same base diagram.
Can anyone think of anyway to do that please? I know you cannot draw and drop the same element on the same diagram, because of the indexing structure of elements in the database, so I am guessing that leaves only frames?
Thanks, much appreciate in advance any help
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There's no way to show the same diagram in different ways.
Think of it like an image. If you use the same image multiple times, it will each time be exactly the same.
Geert
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There's no way to show the same diagram in different ways....
As Geert mentioned, what you'd like to achieve is not possible.
However, your scenario can be achieved: create separate diagrams and place custom legends onto each separate diagram, colouring the elements by "tag value" or some other attribute of interest.
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Four diagrams containing instances of the same elements would work, but it might be simpler to just set the local appearance of each element on each diagram, say Class X is red on diagram 1, blue on diagram 2 and so on. To be honest, I'm not sure how you would meaningfully represent risk, cost, effort and business value separately just by the colour of the element. I would have thought that the content of the elements would be different in each case. Maybe just have a different diagram background in each case, simply to highlight the risk information, the cost information, etc.
Does this get you any further?