Good idea needed

[sargasso]

Same old scenario...

I've got a major system integration project, 56 components, 170 odd interfaces and over 300 dataflows ("connections") ... blah blah

Now the big picture has come down to 11 logical component diagrams which represent the view of the flows between subsystems grouped by the "type of business flows" for example all the subsystems for interacting with the bank for electronic banking are on a single model, all those regarding "accounting" on another etc.  

As an example the payments out can be via cheque, direct credit or etc, cheque requests are handled by subsytem "POC", direct credits go via "PODCr" these two interact with the banking interface subsystem "BI" which communicates with the bank.  Now both POC and PODCr send payment postings batches to the GL system. So the banking model has all these subsystems.  Fine and dandy.

Now the problem....

On the Accounting model I have both POC and PODCr elements.  POC is the nominal "head subsystem" for banking.  It is a composite element, with the banking model diagram underneath it in the tree.  When I add POC to the accounting view diagram I get a nice composite element that is clickable to take the user to the banking diagram.  However, PODCr is not a composite element.

Good idea needed!

How can I make the PODCr element in the accounting diagram clickable to take the user to the banking diagram?

tia
Bruce

[Bruno.Cossi]

Bruce,

simply, you can't :-) What you could do however is to create a child diagram underneath PODCr, and place a hyperlink to the banking diagram on it. Then make PODCr a composite element and there you are.

Will that help?

Bruno

[KP]

How about drag the banking diagram under PODCr, make PODCr a composite element and then drag the banking diagram back to where it came from. It should then be clickable from both composite elements.

[sargasso]

       
Thanks KP! Works like a charm.  PLEASE make this undocumented feature a standard.

Bruce

Hey Bruno, every day a new thing learnded eh!

[Bruno.Cossi]

KP: Wow! That's a great one! I wish I knew it about a week ago :-)

Bruce: In my case, every day a new thing learned, and at least two things forgotten!