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Creating Diagrams for a subset of objects in the Ecore Model [message #929535] Mon, 01 October 2012 10:48 Go to next message
Ranjith Chungath is currently offline Ranjith Chungath
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Hi,

I have an Ecore file which has more than 100 EClasses. Now, I want to create a diagram only with a subset of objects(Max 5). Just wanted to know what would be the easiest way to do that.

The problem is, whenever you create a Diagram, in the dialog, you can only select the EPackage and not a list of EClasses under the package, and so it creates the diagram with all the EClasses in that package.

I don't want to generate the complete diagram and filter the rest of the objects Razz .

Thanks,
Ranjith

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Re: Creating Diagrams for a subset of objects in the Ecore Model [message #949197 is a reply to message #929535] Thu, 18 October 2012 15:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
David Rees is currently offline David Rees
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You may know this, but in case it helps here are two key things to note that I missed at first:

You can have multiple diagrams in a single ecorediag. For some reason diagrams are a bit hidden in the outline so they are hard to miss- they are under the top-level package and after all the elements.

You can add drag elements from the outline onto the canvas.

So to create a diagram with just a few elements I would do the following:
"Initialize Ecore Diagram" from the ecore normally
Then select the package in the outline and choose "New Digram"
Then select the elements you want and drag them on to the diagram

I do the above steps all the time when exploring the model with "Navigate > Restore Related Elements" to explore a subset of elements.

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Re: Creating Diagrams for a subset of objects in the Ecore Model [message #955897 is a reply to message #929535] Wed, 24 October 2012 00:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ranjith Chungath is currently offline Ranjith Chungath
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That was exactly what I was looking for......

Thanks,
Ranjith

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Re: Creating Diagrams for a subset of objects in the Ecore Model [message #956439 is a reply to message #955897] Wed, 24 October 2012 10:06 Go to previous message
David Rees is currently offline David Rees
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Glad to be of help. As long as I am sharing, be sure to check out the New_and_Noteworthy. That seems to be "the documentation" for EMF Tools Diagrams. I updated the wiki to make that more clear, but since you have been using it for a while you have missed it as I did at first.

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