Welcome to Telelogic Product Support
  Home Downloads Knowledgebase Case Tracking Licensing Help Telelogic Passport
Telelogic System Architect (steve huntington)
Decrease font size
Increase font size
Topic Title: Associative Entity Symbol Depiction
Topic Summary: How to change the Associative Entity Symbol?
Created On: 7-Jul-2006 00:37
Status: Read Only
Linear : Threading : Single : Branch
Search Topic Search Topic
Topic Tools Topic Tools
Subscribe to this topic Subscribe to this topic
E-mail this topic to someone. E-mail this topic
Bookmark this topic Bookmark this topic
View similar topics View similar topics
View topic in raw text format. Print this topic.
 7-Jul-2006 00:37
User is offline View Users Profile Print this message


William Wimsatt

Posts: 17
Joined: 7-Nov-2005

I know that data entities are treated differently in the USRPROPS file, but I am hoping someone has a work around for the Associative Entity symbol depiction. I don't want the diamond shape for these entities. They should all be simple rounded corner boxes - nothing special. Has anyone done this?

Bill
Report this to a Moderator Report this to a Moderator
 10-Jul-2006 00:54
User is offline View Users Profile Print this message


Duane Hennessy

Posts: 112
Joined: 18-May-2006

Do you mean with the depiction of a symbol. Here are some ways to do it.

rename symbol "User 2" to "relates_to"
symbol "my associative entity"
{
defined by "my associative entity"
depict like "blah symbol" in "blah diagram"
assign to "my diagram style"
} rem "my associative entity"

Or use a symbol that has the right shape and define it by the Associative Entity Symbol.

Or load a new symbol with the Encyclopedia Manager and then define it by the Associative Entity Symbol.

Symbol "my associative entity"
{
depictions {
diagram "my_associative_symbol.wmv"
menu "my_associative_symbol.bmp"
} rem "depictions"
} rem "my associative entity"

Does this help or give you some ideas?

Report this to a Moderator Report this to a Moderator
 17-Jul-2006 23:20
User is offline View Users Profile Print this message


William Wimsatt

Posts: 17
Joined: 7-Nov-2005

Yes, that is the idea. The USRPROPS guide says that you cannot assign anything to the Entity diagram, so I am assuming you can create the symbol with the depiction, but not assign it to the diagram.

Bill

Report this to a Moderator Report this to a Moderator
 19-Jul-2006 23:53
User is offline View Users Profile Print this message


Duane Hennessy

Posts: 112
Joined: 18-May-2006

Guess so, have you tested your assumption? I'm interested to know the answer.
We cannot update the entity diagram but we can create a custom diagram using the USRPROPS and incorporate the Entity symbols within it including our own symbols. This could overcome the problem of attaching the symbol to an extant diagram schema that does not accept symbol attachments.
Report this to a Moderator Report this to a Moderator
Statistics
20925 users are registered to the Telelogic System Architect forum.
There are currently 1 users logged in.
The most users ever online was 16 on 30-Oct-2008 at 14:46.
There are currently 0 guests browsing this forum, which makes a total of 1 users using this forum.
You have posted 0 messages to this forum. 0 overall.

FuseTalk Standard Edition v3.2 - © 1999-2009 FuseTalk Inc. All rights reserved.