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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: MarcinG on May 06, 2021, 06:03:14 pm

Title: Extending existing class - tutorial ?
Post by: MarcinG on May 06, 2021, 06:03:14 pm

Hello,

I am looking for a tutorial/documentation on extending existing classes.  As one of our needs is to extend UML Component class with custom attributes, and define (where applicable) a LOV for some of those attributes.  I have found several articles about creating UML profiles, however, I was not able to find a consistent guide from start to end for creating an own class extending existing class, defining attributes and their (default) values, and then being able to use this class in models.   I suppose a meta-model needs to be created using such extended class but it is a bit unclear for the moment.

I would appreciate if anyone could point me out into a right direction.

Best regards
Marcin

Title: Re: Extending existing class - tutorial ?
Post by: qwerty on May 06, 2021, 06:22:37 pm

What is a LOV?

q.

Title: Re: Extending existing class - tutorial ?
Post by: Geert Bellekens on May 06, 2021, 06:35:00 pm

I don't know if there's really a tutorial like the one you are looking for.

I found the info I needed starting here: https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/introduction_2.html (https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/introduction_2.html)

Geert

Title: Re: Extending existing class - tutorial ?
Post by: Sunshine on May 08, 2021, 07:11:46 am

TLAS for free

AFAIR there used to be a tutorial some where on the community site
https://community.sparxsystems.com/ (https://community.sparxsystems.com/)

IIRC its this
https://community.sparxsystems.com/tutorials/552-24intro-to-creating-a-mdg-file (https://community.sparxsystems.com/tutorials/552-24intro-to-creating-a-mdg-file)

AQSUG
https://www.sparxsystems.in/blogs/how-to-define-mdg-technologies-in-sparx-enterprise-architect/ (https://www.sparxsystems.in/blogs/how-to-define-mdg-technologies-in-sparx-enterprise-architect/)

You can find the Manual here with all the details
https://sparxsystems.com/resources/user-guides/15.2/modeling/mdg-technologies.pdf (https://sparxsystems.com/resources/user-guides/15.2/modeling/mdg-technologies.pdf)

HTH

Title: Re: Extending existing class - tutorial ?
Post by: qwerty on May 08, 2021, 04:39:28 pm

That community resource has been moved to my site ages ago. It's now at http://liquit.biz/brain/enterprise.html (http://liquit.biz/brain/enterprise.html)

q.