Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => Uml Process => Topic started by: bluemanifold on October 30, 2007, 06:12:58 am
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Hi. I'm trying to create a metamodel using EA 7.0.817. When I open the package properties, the <<metamodel>> stereotype is missing from the list of available stereotypes. A <<model>> stereotype is present but is this the same thing? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers.
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If you mean that you are trying to build a metamodel as part of a profile, then you are looking at the wrong stereotype.
Create a new class diagram. Now use the More Tools button at the top of the toolbox to open the Profile toolbox - or shift-right-click on the diagram and use the context menu - and add a Profile element (it looks like a package) to your diagram. The element should be a package with the «profile» stereotype already set up, and it should be set as a composite element. If you double-click it you will open a profile diagram 'within' the new profile package.
HTH, David
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I guess I could do that, David. I was actually reading the help system about MOF diagrams - I want to create my metamodel as a MOF diagram and eventually export the package. That way, the package could be used by a profile model as well as within a standard class model (where it acts as a 'template'). The help system says that a <<metamodel>> stereotype is available for tagging the MOF package and yet when I go through the procedure, that particular stereotype is missing.
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I'm not sure if the (small) change to the procedure has washed through to the Help you are using, but you just type the value metamodel in the Stereotype field - it's one of those stereotypes you create by using it once.
HTH
Roy
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Cheers, Roy. That worked - I also found a similar topic on one of the other forums. :)