Enterrise Architect MDG Technology in DFD

Question

Thank you in advance for your helping

I am using Sparx Enterprise Architect one year ago, and I have a good experience in it.

Actually, I started to create my own toolbox using MDG Technology, this toolbox contains some different diagrams. I already created what I need in this toolbox and it works correctly. However, I have a problem with the Data Flow Diagram (DFD) symbols, I wasted a lot of time to find the name of the DFD stereotypes.

I need a help, how I can create DFD on the Profile page in MDG like the following:

Thanks

Answer 1

The stereotypes for DFD are(UML Base Types in parentheses):

• DFD_Process (Class)
• DFD_External (Class)
• DFD_DataStore (Class)
• DFD_DataFlow (Connector:Dependency)
• Gate doesn't have a stereotype, the uml base subtype is MessageEndPoint
• There is no stereotype for a DFD Diagram, so you can use a process diagram.

This information was taken from EA's own DataFlow toolbox.

The toolbox is named Data Flow Diagrams, and to get it you need the Data Flow Diagrams MDG.

To get the stereotype/base class information, drag each element on a diagram and select them, the stereotype will show in the property window.

For the base class, you need to select the element and have the property window (alt+1), then click the button with three dots (see screenshot), it will show you the base class