You can sort compartment items in Unified Modeling Language
(UML) data diagrams in ascending or descending alphabetical order
to reduce the complexity or increase the level of abstraction in data
diagrams. By default, compartment items are listed in the same order
as they are in the Properties view and the Data Project Explorer or
Data Source Explorer.
Procedure
To filter compartment items by name, visibility style,
or return type in an ascending or descending alphabetical order:
- Right-click a shape.
- Click .
- In the Sort/Filter Compartment Items window,
click a compartment and complete one or more of the following steps:
- To sort compartment items by visibility, in the table, click
the Visibility column heading.
- To sort compartment items by visibility while filtering by
selection, select or clear the check boxes for each compartment item
that you want to make visible or not.
- To sort compartment items by name, in the table, click the Name column
heading.
- Click Apply.
- Click OK.