UML Elements and Linked Documents

[Kamal Hammoutene]

Hi,
I like to use Linked Documents for example to propose a textual representation of a Use Case, using a Use Case template such as the Cockburn's one.

I then drag and drop Actors but also Classes, Requirements in the Linked Document or I may also create UML elements from within the Linked Document.

My question to the forum is:
in EA, how do you see the fact for example that a "Use Case" is  linked (via a "Linked Document") with the Actor/Class or Requirement that I have dragged and dropped?

Tx

[Geert Bellekens]

I don't think you can.
You should still make "proper" relations between the use case and the actors/requirements/classes etc..
The linked document is only there for documenation purposes. It is not a part of your UML model.

Geert

[Kamal Hammoutene]

I don't think you can.
You should still make "proper" relations between the use case and the actors/requirements/classes etc..
The linked document is only there for documenation purposes. It is not a part of your UML model.

Geert

Thank you Geert.
I already knew that it was not possible. I was actually more in the spirit of starting a thread with the EA developpers as I don't understand why they are offering a very helpful Insert/Create UML elements in a linked document but that relationship remains hidden from the outside of the linked document.

Showing manually graphically the UML elements that have been inserted in a Linked Document attached to a Use Case for example, will very surely causing errors.