Creating a Browse-Through Sequence of Diagrams

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You can link an entire diagram at one level of detail to the next diagram up or down in a sequence of increasing granularity, or you can link from key use cases or actors to the next diagram.

To create a browse-through sequence

1. Think of the answers to the following questions:
   • Why do you want to link several diagrams? What is your general idea?
   • What types of diagrams are you going to link? Usually you link Use Case diagrams, but you can include any other types to a sequence.
   • Do you want to create "vertical" top-down links, or "horizontal" links for diagrams at one level?
   • Do you want to link entire diagrams, or specific diagram elements?
2. Open the main diagram of the sequence you are going to create.
3. Right-click the diagram element, or right-click the diagram background to link the entire diagram.

Note: If you choose to hyperlink to a new diagram, its shortcut appears on the source diagram.

Tip: We recommend that you use some common approach for all links in your sequence.

4. Create a hyperlink to the next diagram. The titles of source and destination elements turn blue.
5. Open the destination diagram.
6. Repeat steps 3-5 for all parts of your sequence.
7. Optionally, create hyperlinks in the reverse motion.

See Also

• Hyperlinking in UML Models
• UML 1.5 Use Case Diagrams Index
• UML 2.0 Use Case Diagrams Index