Discovering and Navigating Links
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You can work with UML modeling relationship and links in the following ways:
- Discover project relationships not indicated in your diagrams
- Navigate the links of a diagram
The IDE offers a Relationship Discovery button to reveal project relationships that exist between classes in your UML project, but are not displayed in your diagrams. Use this button if an association, generalization, or implementation is not visible.
- This button will not discover or display relationships that are only implied in your code. It works only for relationships that are specified in your project data, and then only for diagram elements that you specifically select. It does not work for an entire diagram.
To use the Relationship Discovery button:
- On a diagram, click one element.
- Ctrl-click all the remaining elements.
- In the Diagram toolbar, click the Relationship Discovery button
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The selected elements are displayed with their normally invisible project relationships.
The IDE offers the Navigate Link button, which lets you navigate a link every time you click the button.
To use the Navigate Link button:
- In the Diagram toolbar, click the Navigate Link button
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- Click a link or message.
The IDE locates the link's destination node, and centers the window around that element.
- See Also
- Navigating Within Diagrams
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