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Suggestions and Requests / Multiple instances of elements

« on: November 06, 2003, 09:37:47 am »

If I try to drag more than one link to an existing sub-machine unto a new diagram I get an error.    

The problem is that this is a fundamental requirement for me as my state machines often have more than one instance of a particular sub-machine in different paths through the state machine.  

I managed to get around this by dragging the submachine for the first instance.  To get the subsequent ones I drag the state diagram contained in the sub-machine unto the new diagram.  This looks the same and you can double click on either one to go to that sub-machine diagram.

Is there a technical or UML reason to not have more than one link to an existing sub-machine on a diagram

Thanks   :-/

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General Board / Re: how to insert a message in the middle of a seq

« on: October 09, 2003, 10:23:42 am »

Open your colaboration diagram
Go to the Menu bar and select 'Diagram'
Select 'Sequence Collaboration Message.....'

You now have a dialog that will allow you to change the sequence of the messages.

This is the only way to resequence.  As a general rule it is faster to create the messages in the right order to start with and then only use the resequence for later additions and modifications

Hope this works for you