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Containment Link Use in Package Diagram [message #1779115] Tue, 02 January 2018 17:50 Go to next message
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I am attempting to model a package diagram in Papyrus. That diagram should include a package, which itself is the parent of several other packages. I cannot make a "containment link" link to more than one package. For each link, a new containment link icon is dropped on the edge of the parent, however I believe that it is legal UML to have a "containment link" point out from a package toward multiple package children, e.g. to model a one-to-many containment relationship. It is possible that I'm wrong about the legality of this relationship, or about the failure of the tool, but I simply cannot find the mechanism to do this right.
Your help is appreciated.
Regards,
Gary
Re: Containment Link Use in Package Diagram [message #1779193 is a reply to message #1779115] Wed, 03 January 2018 12:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Works perfectly on my installation. Even the package hierarchy is correctly build.
I attached a screenshot.

index.php/fa/31720/0/

/pica
Re: Containment Link Use in Package Diagram [message #1779197 is a reply to message #1779193] Wed, 03 January 2018 13:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Carsten,
Thanks, I was hoping to branch a single link. I see now that I may be concerned about a cosmetic issue. I am able to create a package hierarchy, as shown in your screenshot, with multiple containment links. However, I am unable to recreate the attached screenshot from http://blog.ricksteiner.net/?cat=3
in that screenshot, on the right hand side of the package diagram, a single containment link is branched out from the "Cameras" package to connect to multiple child packages.

http://blog.ricksteiner.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/8.pkg_.png

It looks cleaner to me, and so if it is possible, I'd like to achieve this. Any thoughts ?
Cheers,
Gary
Re: Containment Link Use in Package Diagram [message #1779205 is a reply to message #1779197] Wed, 03 January 2018 14:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi Gary,

You should be able to get a similar diagram by changing the "kind" of the three containment connectors to "Tree style Routing". This can be done by using the 11th tool in the toolbar ( it looks like a right-pointing arrow followed by a down-pointing triangle).
You will then likely have to adjust the result so that the lines are where you want them.

/Charles
Re: Containment Link Use in Package Diagram [message #1779791 is a reply to message #1779205] Fri, 12 January 2018 11:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It turns out that that works. Thanks for the advice. What you can do is to use containment links, adding multiples, as shown in the first attached file and as Charles recommended, set them up as "Tree style Routing".
index.php/fa/31790/0/

Then drag their heads together
index.php/fa/31791/0/

and finally, their lines.
index.php/fa/31792/0/
All three steps are indicated in the attached.

This is a bit of a clumsy work flow, and it would be great if they could be merge to simply the act of moving and re-arranging elements.

However, it does achieve the desired result.
Re: Containment Link Use in Package Diagram [message #1779797 is a reply to message #1779791] Fri, 12 January 2018 14:21 Go to previous message
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Gary Hendrick wrote on Fri, 12 January 2018 11:41


This is a bit of a clumsy work flow, and it would be great if they could be merge to simply the act of moving and re-arranging elements.

However, it does achieve the desired result.


Thanks for the feedback.

I would suggest you write a bug against Papyrus to keep track of this. You can do so by following: this link
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