In Enterprise Arcitect, can I change a State element to a State Machine element?

Question

I have a State element in a State Machine diagram. I want to change it into a State Machine element. I found the Change Type dialog under Element>Advanced>Change Type... but State Machine is not listed as an option. Is there another way to change element's type?

I'm using EA 10 System Engineering Edition.

Answer 1

The Element::Type attribute is a read/write string, so you should be able to do this with a (diagram or browser) script. You might also need to set Subtype and some other things.

Interestingly, the API also omits StateMachine from its list of permissible Type values. It might still work though.

Either way, I'd say this is a bug and you should report it to Sparx.