Metapicture and test for automatic insertion

[EColomb]

Good Morning,

I ‘m looking for information about Metapicture.

We are working on the metapicture for the message, we have some metapicture for automatic insertion depending on a metaattribulevalue of the message.

But we went to add some condition basing on the diagram nature.

For example : create a new metapicture that only work if the diagram it’s an Application Internal Archtecture Diagram.

We try with a query but it’s not working.

It’s possible to add a test in a metapicture but using a metattribute not connected to the metaclass concerned by this metapicture?

Thanks

[EColomb]

Thx for this solution.

We will see if we try this solution.

[smilechine · Accepted solution]

Hello EColomb,

In the context of the "Application Internal Architecture Diagram" DiagramType, it is possible to create a new DiagramTypeObject with a specific set of MetaPictures.

Therefore, you can add a MetaPicture which will be available only in that type of diagram.

Such customizations should be processed carefully, because DiagramTypeViews and DiagramTypeObjects may be reused in several DiagramTypes.

Regards,

Sergueï

[EColomb]

Thxs for the information 🙂

[jhorber · Accepted solution]

Hello EColomb

In most cases, MetaPicture conditions test a MetaAttribut or a MetaAssociationEnd

Here the functional need is to test the property 'Nature' of an object (of type 'Diagram) connected to the initial message.

You can use a MetaPicture condition implemented by a query. With a query, you can test that the message is connected to a diagram with a given nature. Note that the test will not be contextual to the current diagram: the query can test if the message is connected to none/one/any diagram with this nature in the repository.