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All elements on the activity diagram pane have attributes that describe their behavior in the service. In the Attributes panel, you can see and change the attributes of a selected element.
| If using the panel preset, the attributes panel is displayed in the lower left corner. To return to the panel preset, go to the user preferences and use button Reset Panels.
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| Click an element on the diagram pane to display its attributes in the Attributes panel. All elements have the following standard attributes:
Some elements have additional attributes:
If you click on the diagram pane itself, the Attributes panel displays the attributes of the related operation from the Implementation model. |
Standard Attributes
In the attributes panel, all attributes of the selected element are displayed. Some standard attributes are present for all elements.
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| Name |
Element names must follow certain naming rules. They
| serviceAvailable |
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| Symbol Type | Attribute Symbol Type displays the graphical type of the current element symbol. |
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Specific Attributes
In the attributes panel, all attributes of the selected element are displayed. Some attributes are only available for specific elements (see column Availability below).
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| Description | If you want to insert a description for your element, click here to open a text editor where you can enter and format your text: |
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| Type | Execution elements always have a Type. These can be basic types or user defined types. Users can define their own types in the Implementation folder or in a library. For variables, you can change the type by clicking the link icon | Base Types.String |
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| Direction | Call operation actions have pins that represent their parameters. The Direction specifies whether the pin reflects an input or output parameter. | in | Input pin. |
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| out | Output pin. | |||||||||||
| Array | Use the attribute Array to enable multiplicity. | true | The variable has a multiplicity of 0..*. |
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| Is static | Specify if the operation is static (default) or not.
| true | The operation is static (default) and can be used outside the context of the related class. |
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| false | The operation is non-static and needs a self object as an input. | |||||||||||
| Guard |
| true | Follow this branch. |
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| false | Do not follow this branch. | |||||||||||
| Order |
| an integer | Order in which the guard expression on this control flow should be evaluated. |
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| empty | Undefined order of evaluation. | |||||||||||
| Get | The Get attribute extracts the value of a single attribute from a complex type object node respectively output pin, and transports the value to an input pin respectively an object node.
| A valid class path e.g. customerAddress.street |
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| Stereotype | Via button Add Stereotype, you can add a stereotype to an action node. By adding a stereotype, you can extend the attributes of an element with additional properties. For more information, refer to the related adapter pages. |
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