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Editing RM diagram properties
Access
EA ribbon > Specialize > Model Expert > Reference Models, Select a Reference Model > Expand, Choose a Diagram type > Right click Edit OR Double click on the diagram type
Properties to Edit
| Field | Description | See Also |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Seen by the user, name used to identify this diagram type. | |
| MDG | Where used, this is the MDG where the underlying diagram type is defined | |
| Diagram type | EA diagram type of this diagram | |
| EA diagram type | ||
| Elements in this diagram | List of the elements types which are allowed in this diagram. These MUST come from the list of allowed element types in the reference model. You can add, delete or edit this list, and the multiplicities of each element type within the diagram.
You can also choose a package from which the user must chose existing elements. This is to prevent accidental duplicates |
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| Use diagram validation scripts | Check this to run any diagram-specific validation scripts. | Validating Diagrams |
| Only Instances of elements in this diagram | Check this to… ??? | |
| Help & Guidance for users | ||
| Help URL | When a modeller creates a diagram of this type, they will see this URl, which might take them, for example, to a page on your intranet, or to some training material. Action Test | |
| Help diagram (Example diagram) | A diagram in this repository, which is an example of this kind of diagram Action Choose diagram | |
| Template diagram | A diagram in this repository which will be copied into the current package and opened.
Allows you to create a diagram with correct titles, swimlanes, legends etc so the user doesn’t have to create them. Can also be populated with useful elements. Action Choose |
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| Help Text | Add here the text to be shown to the user when they create an example of this diagram type. Allows you to explain what the diagram is for. | |