Tag Archives: Use Case

Organize Data Models Under Use Cases

In helping you organize your modeling project, use cases can act as generic containers for all software development artifacts. Development teams can group and locate design artifacts by navigating use cases.

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to create a new data model (i.e. entity relationship diagram) and associate that with a use case. And in future, you can easily identify existing associations as such by use cases and conveniently, be taken to the related diagrams right on the spot in just a few clicks.

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How to Model Permissions on Use Case for Actors

In use case diagram, associations between actors and use cases are explicitly shown. We can see it clearly when an actor carries out a use case (or goal) from a line drawn between them. However, what if an actor does not carry out a use case but do refer to the output from it? How do we model that?

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How to List Out All Use Cases in the Current Project

When working on a project, it may involve many use case diagrams.
What if you want to get an overview of all use cases in all diagrams of the current project?
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How to add custom fields to use case details?

Properties or tags are used to keep information about use case and can be viewed in Use Case Details. In there, you will see a number of fields such as level, complexity and author that are provided by default. In VP-UML, if you need to store additional information in use case details, you can create custom fields to do that.

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