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General Board / Re: Linking Use Case pathways to Activity Diagrams

« on: September 06, 2002, 09:19:43 am »

Thank you everybody for your responses.  Jaime, I tried your step-by-step instructions and now I am all set.  Thanks again for your help.

On a separate note, I have so far used Visio, Rose (some of it anyway), and EA (for a few days now).  I have to say that EA is the best one available for its features, ease-of-use, and most definitely the price.  Once in a while a small software company comes along with the right skills, determination, and ability to produce outstanding products that leave the competition in dust.  Sparx definitely seems like one such company.  The last one I came across was DataDynamics with their ActiveReports product.

Keep up the good work Sparx -- this is what a software company should be!

-NC

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General Board / Re: Linking Use Case pathways to Activity Diagrams

« on: September 05, 2002, 01:36:51 pm »

Jason,

Thank you for your input.  Your solution actually sounds like something I can work with.  I am not sure, however, how "Link this note  to an element feature..." work.  Is it a context menu off of somewhere?  The only note element I can find is one on the toolbar, and its context menu does not have this option.

Thanks again, and I look forward to your response.

-NC.

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General Board / Re: Linking Use Case pathways to Activity Diagrams

« on: September 05, 2002, 09:16:14 am »

Thank you for both the responses.  However, I am not exactly sure what farfetch recommended is what I want .  

Jamie, a "happy path" is what is also called a Basic Course of Events (BCOE), and is the most travelled pathway through a use case.  An "alternate" path, on the other hand is a perfectly fine course of events (also a candidate for happy path), but is not the most travelled one.  There is another type of pathways, an "exception", which is basically an error condition that the system must respond to.

I have these pathways defined in a Use Case.  I know how I can link the whole Use Case to an Activity Diagram (that I also created in EA), however an Activity Diagram only needs to be linked to one of the pathways through the Use Case.  I hope I am making some sense here.

Again, thank you for your responses.

-NC

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General Board / Linking Use Case pathways to Activity Diagrams

« on: September 04, 2002, 07:24:03 pm »

Hi,

I have created a Use Case using EA that has one happy path and three alternate paths.  I would like to link each path to a different Activity Diagram.  How can I do that in EA?

Thank you.