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General Board / Re: High level system diagram

« on: September 24, 2016, 07:28:55 am »

You might consider ArchiMate for this kind of thing.  It will take some time to learn it though, so if you need to crank out something in the next hour this isn’t the solution for you.

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General Board / Re: Behavior of Archimate 3's Grouping element

« on: September 19, 2016, 10:39:26 pm »

Done. There's actually other behavior that suggests it's a more general issue wherein the implementation of Grouping produces a relationship (in accordance with the ArchiMate 2 spec) instead of an element as specified by ArchiMate 3.0.

They're investigating.

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General Board / Re: Behavior of Archimate 3's Grouping element

« on: September 19, 2016, 01:25:23 am »

Never mind. It works fine if I explicitly choose the Realization relationship from the Toolbox instead of trying to draw it from the little arrow that appears on the shape that has focus in the diagram (which is how I tend to do that type of thing).

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General Board / Behavior of Archimate 3's Grouping element

« on: September 18, 2016, 04:45:40 am »

The ArchiMate 3.0 Specification shows an example of how the Grouping element can be used in a new way.  But while experimenting with the Enterprise Architect 13 beta, I couldn't figure out how to realize a Service from the Grouping element as shown in the Open Group specification.

See section "4.6.1 Grouping" which says:

In the model below, the Grouping element is used to aggregate a conglomerate of two processes
and an object that together realize a service (both with nesting and explicitly drawn aggregation relationships).

Anyone else encounter this?  Maybe that functionality is still in the product development backlog?