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mse

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Showing direction of flow in activity diagram action pins
« on: January 29, 2016, 07:29:14 pm »
I am trying to draw a pin with an arrowhead showing the direction. I noticed in the properties for a pin that I can specifiy the direction as in, out, or in/out. However, when I change this property, there is no difference in the appearance i.e. no arrow is shown.

Is this because I am using UML instead of SysML?
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Re: Showing direction of flow in activity diagram action pins
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2016, 08:22:48 pm »
As far as I know, showing arrows in pins is optional according OMG and EA is just not supporting this option. I also miss this feature somehow. Post it maybe in the Suggestions and Requests forum.
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Re: Showing direction of flow in activity diagram action pins
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2016, 06:32:39 am »
The arrow in SysML is created with a shape script. You can mimic that in any other profile easily. Standard UML does not show an arrow.

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Re: Showing direction of flow in activity diagram action pins
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2016, 12:31:19 am »
Hello,

If you want to show the arrow icon, you can use the Flow Port from SysML 1.2. It is a deprecated element but shows the direction.

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