Show inherited methods etc in Visual Paradigm

Question

I'm using Visual Paradigm CE for some UML-Design.

Is there any way to display all inherited methods in a class diagramm? Can't figure out where to find it in the options, am I just blind or is there no way?

Answer 1

There is no way to do that and for a reason. If in UML you write the method in both classes (parent and child) then this means that the method is overriden in the child class. I'll illustrate:

+--------+         +--------+
| Class1 |         | Class2 |
+--------+<|-------+--------+
| m1()   |         |        |
+--------+         +--------+

Here when you execute class2.m1() the method class1.m1() will be executed (class1 and class2 are instances of Class1 and Class2 respectively). If you model like this:

+--------+         +--------+
| Class1 |         | Class2 |
+--------+<|-------+--------+
| m1()   |         | m1()   |
+--------+         +--------+

It means that Class2 has a new implementation of m1() and that implementation will be called.

Hope this clears things up.

Answer 2

• Right Click Class > Presentation Options > Attributes > Show Inherited Attributes
• Right Click Class > Presentation Options > Operations > Show Inherited Operations

I'm actually using Agilian (also VP Suite) but I assume it's identical.

Answer 3

I think the question is more likely related to the option "show-hide" inheritance links between classifiers inside a class diagram. This option is available in very few tools. I know RSA and Omondo have it.

This is a kind of live navigation in the model which is more related to the Omondo EclipseUML metamodeling approach.