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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: andy__d on December 14, 2024, 02:16:09 am

Title: Viewing connector stereotypes in traceability pane
Post by: andy__d on December 14, 2024, 02:16:09 am
Is there a way to display the stereotype of a connector in the Traceability window user interface? We have a number of relationships between objects that are specific to our environment, and we've used a "Connector" to create that association, and applied a stereotype to that connector to differentiate between the connection types. However, this is only visible on diagrams, I've not found a way to make that visible in the traceability window. Not all of these connectors exist in diagrams, so whilst "Find in Diagrams" can be a good solution, it doesn't work for all of our objects. If not, is there another UI element that displays connectors that I could be using instead (which also displays the connector stereotype?) Thanks!
Title: Re: Viewing connector stereotypes in traceability pane
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on December 14, 2024, 09:43:52 am
Hi Andy,
I've recently noticed this too!  We also make extensive use of stereotypes to provide specialised semantics.  Lacking the stereotype in the Traceability pane is a hindrance,
Put in a Feature request, referencing this post and the Sparxians can gauge the support by looking at other's responses.

+1

Paolo
Title: Re: Viewing connector stereotypes in traceability pane
Post by: Geert Bellekens on December 15, 2024, 08:18:01 pm
I thought the meaningForwards and meaningBackwards is used in the Traceability window isn't it?

Geert
Title: Re: Viewing connector stereotypes in traceability pane
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on December 16, 2024, 11:22:39 pm
I thought the meaningForwards and meaningBackwards is used in the Traceability window isn't it?

Geert
It is, Geert, but technically, that's not quite the same as the stereotype.  While stereotypes must be unique within an MDG, the meanings need not (as we've discovered - trying to rectify some technical debt in our MDG).

Paolo
Title: Re: Viewing connector stereotypes in traceability pane
Post by: Sunshine on December 17, 2024, 01:52:12 pm
As far as I can recall the only way to see the list of relationships of an element with stereotypes is to open the element properties dialog and look at the list of links/ connectors.