[mipmip]

Hi,

I used ArgoUML for managing the inventory and deployment of our servers and applications.

One feature of ArgoUML is that you can make several diagrams where the same objects can be used. This way you can have on the one hand a diagram with all hosts and on the other hand a solution diagram where some of the hosts are linked and also contain software components.

The objects in ArgoUML also don't have to look visualy the same in different diagrams but their meta data always stay the same.

If you work this way the outline of child components grows and but still stay clean without any extra work, because their is no redundant information.

Another reason why this would be so usefull is that OmniGraffle could be used as data input interface for complex systems like CMS's or data center management tools. At this point OmniGraffle is only usefull for visualizing data coming from these systems.

I know of linkback and I know of the shared layers feature, but both don't seem to fullfill above needs. The Shared layers seemed promising but their is no outline of shared objects and if you change the appearance of an object it changes everywhere.


Will this feature of sharing object meta data with different graphic appearance in different stencils ever be available in OmniGraffle?

Is their a way of working to achieve the above already in OmniGraffle Pro 5?

Regards,
Pim Snel