[Uml-user] glossary support?

[Jon Barrilleaux]

I haven't had a chance to use the app yet, but just entering some 
text is not what a glossary is about.  The glossary terms need to 
be "alive" in that they can be linked to and globally updated 
(e.g. renamed).  It would also be nice to see the relationship 
between terms, such as which terms compose other terms, and which 
terms are derived from other terms.

When working with customers a good glossary goes a long way to 
understanding the problem at hand without in form that anyone who 
has used a dictionary is familiar with.

--jon

Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>>I guess Jon menas something like... a Glosary  =))
>>in many books on UML they recomend to make a glosary with all terms, so that
>>there are no misunderstandings later.
>>You can put pretty much anything there - example:
>>
>>Car -reserved: A reserved car is a reserved automobil-type. It is NOT a
>>specific, car, but only the quantitiy-based reservation of a unit from a set
>>of cars having certain type
>>
>>- those examples are from one book I have, but you get the idea?
>>This would mean that Umbrello should not only save diagrams, but also
>>documents and tables .  All this --altough not part of the UML specs-- is
>>important to fully document your modell.
> 
> 
> Well Umbrello lets you enter some documentation for each widget or diagram
> in the box in the bottom left.
> 
> That sounds like what your describing.
> 
> Jonathan Riddell
> 
> 
> 

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