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Bug 349324

Summary:	[DeploymentDiagram] Can't model communication paths between nodes.
Product:	[Modeling] Papyrus	Reporter:	Steve Blackwell <zephod77>
Component:	Diagram	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mdt-papyrus-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	alan77codebits, anatoly.shirokov, BlackBsd, rayl
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Steve Blackwell

2011-06-14 10:31:45 EDT

Build Identifier: I20110519-1138

The deployment diagram palette shows 5 different types of links. The one named Link cannot be created on a deployment diagram.

This may be related to 346613.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch to a Papyrus perspective.
2. Create a new Deployment diagram.
3. Create 2 nodes side by side.
4. Select the Link link.
5. Attempt to link the 2 nodes. It is not possible.

Comment 1 Steve Blackwell

2011-06-16 09:46:16 EDT

This problem still exists in 0.8.0.v201106151827.

Comment 2 Steve Blackwell

2011-06-24 10:24:00 EDT

Manifestation links also don't work. It is not possible to draw one on a deployment diagram.

Comment 3 Alan

2012-06-27 04:39:20 EDT

Still present in 0.8.2.v201202150957

Links should be allowed to indicate connections among nodes (e.g. SCSI, TCP/IP, etc...)

Comment 4 Ansgar Radermacher

2013-03-15 09:03:09 EDT

I can reproduce this behavior 0.10.X.
However, in general a "link" in Papyrus denotes a link between a comment and an element (annotated-element) and works like that for the deployment diagram.

Having said that, the UML standard proposes to use associations for modeling communication paths between nodes and Papyrus does not provide this option. Therefore I changed the title of this bug.

Comment 5 Brian

2014-11-14 14:57:06 EST

Hello, any update on this bug?

Comment 6 Anatoly Shirokov

2015-09-18 05:03:41 EDT

Any news?

Comment 7 Ray Lehtiniemi

2017-01-13 15:16:24 EST

this seems to work in neon.2

I can create two nodes on a deployment diagram, then use the CommunicationPath item on the Links palette to create a path between them.

the Link item on the Links palette also works to create a link to a Comment (as comment 4 mentioned)