Adding and Hiding Classes and Filtering Class Relationships

The commands on the Query menu allow you to control which model elements are represented by icons in the current diagram.

On the Query menu, clicking:

• Add Classes adds classes to the diagram by name.
• Add Use Cases adds use cases to the diagram by name.
• Expand Selected Elements adds classes to the diagram based on their relationships to selected classes.
• Hide Selected Elements removes selected classes from the diagram and optionally removes their clients or suppliers from the diagram.
• Filter Relationships controls which kinds of relationships appear in the diagram.

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Class Specification

A Class Specification displays and modifies class properties and relationships. Some of the information in the specification can also be displayed inside class icons.

If a field does not apply to a particular class type, the field is unavailable and you cannot add or change information in the field.

To display a Class Specification, click an icon representing the class in a class diagram and click Browse > Specification.

If you have not clicked Tools > Options and selected the Double-Click to diagram check box, you can double-click any icon representing the class. You can also click Specification from the shortcut menu.

Specification Content

The Class Specification consists of the following tabs: General, Detail, Operations, Attributes, Relations, Component, Nested, and Files.