Hi Aymenn et All,
I don't have the original mail which raised this question yesterday.
Anyway here's the answer to the question.
I checked with version 4.3 and then with version 5.0 of Topcased and it
does not support association of item flows on BDD or IBD. I have tried
every possible way to create it graphically but there is no possible
option to associate item flows. Yes, it is possible to transform a flow
specification to Item flow through context menu in outline view, but
then what? The other part of the tool does not support the association
of item flow on the connector in the properties editing area.
For the moment Topcased is not compliant with SysML specification on
this feature.
However, if this information is critical to your diagram, you can put
the item flow in a call out from the connector by using a comment and
link (is not semantically legal). Your choice.
Here is original question asked by Aymenn last month and after that a
few responses
http://lists.gforge.enseeiht.fr/pipermail/topcased-users/2011-August/016334.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02259.html
(Tristan's reply that they will be available in version 5.0 but they
are not.)
I did some more digging into this issue and went back to the Topcased
website. What I found was quite surprising.
UML and SysML editor specific features (Updated) ->
http://www.topcased.org/index.php?documentsSynthesis=y&Itemid=59
If you look inside this document, on page 4 (What’s new since previous
tutorial (4.2)), the link for Topcased 5.0 points to
http://gforge.enseeiht.fr/frs/download.php/2933/ReleaseNote4.1.0.pdf
I wonder where Release note for version 5.0 features is.
Even if you ignore this mistake, there is just one new item in diagrams
in the presented document, highlighted in "red" i.e. "Tasks in UML/SysML
Models (slide 36)". In absence of the right release note it is
impossible to say if it is present in release 5.0. Even if it is, I
couldn't locate the help on its usage.
SysML help: http://www.topcased.org/index.php?id_projet_pere=20 (No
help document but only a specification of editor features and a very
elementary example.)
UML help: http://www.topcased.org/index.php?id_projet_pere=34 (UML2
Editor user manual (PDF) : v0.7.0 released on 26/01/06)
Finally, only one conclusion can be drawn that "Item flows in SysML" is
not supported for the moment. If anyone else has found a way to do it,
please enlighten the community.
Regards,
Gajendra Kashyap
Consultant System Engineer
Altran Technologies
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