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General Board / Re: Hyperlink to activity diagram creates new acti

« on: October 22, 2013, 05:32:06 am »

I think I have this figured out now. There is (as my EA 10 is current configured) no Advanced > Make Composite option. However, if you select an Activity element (not an Action) in either a diagram or the Project Browser and right click, you get the New Diagram > Select Composite Diagram option. If you select a diagram, then the Activity infinity symbol-like identifier appears in the lower right of the Activity's box, and when it is double-clicked, the selected diagram, rather than the Properties window, opens. Once it is selected, the New Diagram > Composite option appears and is selected, and unselecting it removes the diagram association and the Activity is no longer a composite.

It took some experimentation since it's not clearly covered in the help anywhere I could find, but it is in fact what I was looking for. Thanks.

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General Board / Re: Hyperlink to activity diagram creates new acti

« on: October 22, 2013, 05:04:42 am »

Thanks, that's likely to be helpful. I remember seeing the Make Composite option when I used EA at another job, but my current installation only offers Advanced > Use Rectangle Notation and Tagged Values... when I right-click an action in a diagram. Is this something that needs to be enabled somewhere? I'm using the Corporate version at this point.

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General Board / Hyperlink to activity diagram creates new activity

« on: October 22, 2013, 01:37:40 am »

Hi All,

I'm creating an activity diagram, and I want to insert an activity (i.e. a sub-activity). I'd like the icon in the parent diagram to open the activity diagram for the sub-activity. However, if I mark an action in the parent diagram as a CallBehavior to get the sub-activity trident indicator, that doesn't automatically link to the sub-activity or any related diagram, and if I drag the sub-activity diagram onto the parent diagram and create a hyperlink, a new and unwanted activity is create in the project browser. If I delete the new, superfluous, activity, the link disappears in my parents diagram.

Is there any way to get the linking behavior I'm looking for without the unneeded activity element?

Thanks!