UML Designer User's Guide

Browsing and loading

To load a model that is not currently in your image, select Available from the Source menu of the Relationships Browser (or from the pop-up menu in the list of models). This option opens a standard ENVY applications browser from which you can choose the application containing the model you want.

To load a different edition of a model that you already have loaded, do one of the following in the Relationships Browser:

Note: Any time you load a model using standard ENVY browsers (rather than the UML Designer Editions Browser), you must manually refresh any open UML Designer browsers in order to see the newly loaded model. There are two ways to do this:
  • To refresh a single browser, select Refresh Browser from the File menu of the browser you want to refresh.
  • To close all open browsers, select Reset All Browsers from the UML Designer menu of the Transcript window. You can then reopen the browsers you need.

Loading elements

Loading an edition of an element also loads the released editions of its children. You can also manually load other editions of the elements. You can do this in either of two ways:

Note:You should always use the UML Designer Editions Browser or Hierarchical Change Browser (rather than the standard ENVY browsers) to browse and load editions of model elements. These browsers are designed to display model elements. See Using the UML Designer browsers for more information.

Crash recovery

To recover from a crash, restart your image. If you have made changes to your model more recently than the last time you saved your image, load the latest edition of the model application. Loading the model automatically loads the released child elements as well.

Composite objects

Certain types of elements, called composite objects, are stored within their parents, limiting the ways in which they can be browsed and loaded. The following elements, all part of message specifications, are composite objects:

Because these elements are embedded within their parents, you cannot browse editions for them individually. To see the changes of a composite object, browse its parent object (a message specification). When you browse a message specification, its composite relationships are expanded and displayed inline so you can see the contents of these objects.

You can use the Hierarchical Change Browser to selectively load different editions of composite objects individually. See Hierarchical Change Browser for more information.


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