Support for type Enumeration?

[Ken Norcross]

I do not see the Enumeration type available in the type lists?

(Actually most of the types in the “Class” toolbox do not seem to be available)

For Domain/Entity/Concept modeling I tend to use Enumerations to describe fixed values for attributes. I guess I can switch styles and use a Class stereotyped as <>, which was my older style, but since Sparx started supporting Enumeration directly I have tended to use their Enumeration type.

[eadocX Support]

I think I know why.
In recent years, EA has started to blur the boundary between an element type (which is definitively described in the otObjectType enum) and a stereotype.
So, when EA lists what is describes as ‘Element Types’, in many places, that’s a mixture of true element types – like ‘Class’ – and common stereotypes – like <>Class.
There’s no obvious pattern to when EA does this, so eaDocX has no choice but to take a strict view of element types vs. stereotypes.
Element Types are the values which appear in the Object_Type column of t_object, and no others are allowed.
Stereotypes are everything else.
So, to print <>Class elements, create a Profile for that stereotype, and I’m confident that all will be joy and happiness.

[Ken Norcross]

Yes EA has the concept of a “Metatype” that seems to be a stereotype that gets treated by parts of EA as a first class Type.

I will try your suggestion, thanks.

[Guillaume Finance]

I’d like to use the Enumeration type with eaXL, however this type is not supported nor listed in the Elements tab.
Enumeration exists in the t_objectypes table, and used in the t_object.Object_Type column (if you create an Enumeration element from the UML Class toolbox).

Based on your explanation I would expect Enumeration to be listed, which is not. Could this be a quick fix in eaXL?

Thanks

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