UML Designer User's Guide
In the actor example above, we manually created a new Actor element for
Librarian and then separately created a hypertext link to
it. This time, let's let the system do some of the work for
us; we can simultaneously create a new element and a hypertext link to
it. To do this, follow these steps:
- Select Use Cases in the middle pane of the Relationships
Browser.
- Select Adding a new book to the catalog from the list of use
cases.
- In the use case text, select the word library.
- Select Insert Link>Reference from the pop-up menu in the
text pane. A window appears listing the different kinds of objects you
can link to.
- We want to link to a thing, so select Thing from the
list. You can accept the default name Library, which is
derived from the selected text in the use case.
- Select New, indicating that we want to create a new
element.
- Select OK to confirm the text label for the link.
- Repeat the same process for catalog entry and
catalog.
For each hypertext link, a Thing icon
appears along the linked text in the use case description indicating the link
to a Thing element. If you select Things in the middle pane
of the Relationships Browser, you should see Catalog, Catalog
entry, and Library listed.
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