[Uml-user] Using object from another View

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:42:28PM +0300, Yuri Leikind wrote:

> I have a Use Case with an actor called "Foo". Now I need to express the use case in a more precise way - 
> via a sequence diagram. Ok, but in Umbrello, sequence diagrams are placed in the Logical View,
> and use cases are in Use Case View, and it seems like I cannot use items defined from the Use Case View
> in  the Logical View. And there's no actor item in the logical view. Ok, I think, I will just create a new object
> in my sequence diagram called "Foo". But, to my astonishment, I get an error dialog "That name is already being used".
> 
> So, my questions are:
> 
> 1) Why are object from Use Case View cannot be used in diagrams in the Logical View?

It would make sense to allow actors in the sequence diagrams.
Currently you can create objects and tell them in the Properties
dialogue to be drawn as actors.

> 2) If this is so, why not have a separate pool of objects for each view, for I am  not able to create an
> object with the same name in another view?

That can be reported on bugs.kde.org if you want.

Thanks for your feedback

Jonathan Riddell