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RE: [epf-dev] Fwd: FW: Workflow and Task Descriptors


Corey,

Just a bit more to clarify what Jim has said.

When you create an activity diagram, you will only see the next level down in your activity.   These will either be activities or tasks.  As Jim noted, we decided to only include activity diagrams when those diagrams include activities.  Since the tool could automatically generate activity detail diagrams when the children of the activity are tasks, we felt that was sufficient.  There is some serious maintenance with the manually completed activity diagrams, so we didn't want to introduce any more of this than necessary.  

As Jim mentioned, the tool offers you many choices to control the publishing of such diagrams.  You can suppress the publishing of any Activity Diagram, by right clicking and choosing the publishing options.  Turn off the publishing of whichever diagrams you care to. However, this choice affects only the specific diagrams you touch in this way.  You can also control the publishing of the automatically generated Activity Detail Diagrams globally when you publish.  Simply choose not to generate those diagrams in the publishing wizard.

A word of caution:  whenever you open an activity diagram, the tool will create one for you if you didn't already have one.  If you decide that you don't want this diagram (remember you do need to do some work to finish it up by drawing the appropriate arrows, adding synch bars, etc), then you need to delete the diagram.  Do so by right clicking in the diagram and choosing the delete diagram option.

Hope this helps.

Margaret Hedstrom
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Hi Corey,
 
In OpenUP/Basic we made the decision to only use activities in activity diagrams. Task descriptors show up in the activity detail diagrams you get when you double-click on an activity. This was a stylistic choice that seems to work well to help people understand what’s going on at the level that they’re looking at. However, the tool can add task descriptors to the activity diagram if you want to do that.
 
You can right-click on the delivery process or activity and select Publishing Options to turn off the creation of the activity diagram. It looks like you probably added tasks directly to the DP, so it’s trying to generate an activity diagram with only tasks (instead of activities) as well as the activity detail diagrams. I think that turning off the activity diagram will leave the activity detail diagram.
 
- Jim
 
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From: "Segall, Corey E \(Contractor\)"
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Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:54:45 -0500
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FW: Workflow and Task Descriptors

 
Greetings,
 
       I have a few questions around activity diagrams, task descriptors, publishing options, and how they appear or do not appear when published.
 
1) Is the tool designed for you to be able to workflow task descriptors in an activity diagram like the screen show below? Or should task descriptors not be work flowed at all and only should be included in the detail activity diagram?                                
 

 
 
 
2) If you should not workflow task descriptors, do you recommend that I go into the publishing options and turn off “publish activity diagram” so that I don’t get something that looks like this. See below screen shot? Or how can I resolve the publishing of this?
 

 
      Perhaps I am doing something wrong with my relationships/diagrams and I do not fully understand how the workflow stuff works?  Any help with figuring out how to either publish or not publish the workflow diagrams that have task descriptors in it would be appreciated.  
 
Everything else seems straight forward.
 
Corey Segall
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