UML Designer User's Guide
Text labels on associations are one type of adornment. Labels can
show the name of an association (for each direction), as well as the role
names of the elements in the association. Any or all of the following
labels might appear on an association:
- The "to" association name, which initially defaults to the name of
the destination element
- The "from" association name, which initially defaults to the name of
the source element (the owner of the association)
- The source role name
- The destination role name

There are a couple of ways you might decide to name an association:
- One style is to name the association with a verb describing the
relationship, making it possible to read the association (usually from left to
right) as a sentence.
- Another style is to name the association with a noun referring to the
destination entity, with plurality appropriate for the multiplicity of the
association. This is the default for the labels UML Designer
automatically generates.
If you want the automatically generated labels to reflect the multiplicity
of your associations, select the Autoplural option on the
General page of the system settings.
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