Flow chart

[cosmo]

We're specifically trying to link a flowchart to a use case.  We can use Visio and link the file to our use case in EA, but it would be nice to do the flow chart directly in EA and link though a composite, etc...

Thanx,
Cosmo

[«Midnight»]

Hi Cosmo,

You can do something like this without too much trouble. You won't end up with a flow chart per se, since EA is a UML tool, but you should get something that will work well. You might even be happier once you get used to it.

Right-click your use case, and from the context menu choose Add. You will get a second-level context menu. At the bottom of the new menu you will see several different diagram types, including (but not limited to) Activity Diagram and Sequence Diagram. Each of these represents a UML diagram type that you can place 'under' your use case. These all have a purpose, and you can use several, including more than one of any given type. Add the ones that make the most sense for what you need to elaborate.

HTH, David

[Eve]

And...

If you really want a flow chart, look at creating:

a profile (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?umlprofiles_2.htm)
with shape scripts (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?add_shape_scripts_to_uml_profi.htm)
and a diagram profile (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?custom_diagram_types.htm)
and putting the lot in an MDG technology (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?creatingmdgtechnologies.htm)
finally deploy it (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?deploying_mdg_technologies.htm).

[cosmo]

Hey David and Simon,
   Thanx for the advice.  I'll go back and look at activity diagrams again.  I know some of the symbols are available in activity diagrams, though I'm not sure the meanings of the shapes exactly match standard flowchart symbology.  And, I like the roll-your-own UML extendability of EA.  (So that's how you do it.)  Excellent guys.