Activity Diagram-Partition - alphabetical order

[aguevara]

I have some activity diagrams for which I created several partitions; the partitions have actions inside them.

Some partitions have many actions inside of them and I would like to have these actions to be listed in alphabetical order.

Currently, I can only order them alphabetically manually using the arrow down and arrow up. This is very time consuming.

I would like to be able to have Enterprise Architect to do this automatically or provide me an option to be able to do so.

Do you have any recommendations?

Thanks in advance,
Angelo

[Geert Bellekens]

Angelo,

There's an option in the settings that I think reads "allow free sorting". If you uncheck that all elements will be alphabetically ordered in the project browser.

Geert

[KP]

There's an option in the settings that I think reads "allow free sorting". If you uncheck that all elements will be alphabetically ordered in the project browser.

Not quite: the opposite of free sorting is group by element type.

One thing you could try, though it's a very roundabout route... there is a Reset Sort Order command, but only for packages, so create a new empty package, select all of your actions in the project browser (click on first, shift+click on last) and drag them into the package, reset the sort order of the package (right-click > Contents > Reset Sort Order), select all of your actions and drag them back where they came from. I'd say this would be quicker than sorting 100 actions manually, slower than sorting 10.