Setting preferences for sequence and communication diagrams

You can set several default preferences for sequence and communication diagrams. For example, you can specify the appearance of lifelines, messages, and execution occurrences that are displayed in sequence and communication diagrams when you create them.
You can specify the default settings for showing or hiding message numbering, message and operation signatures, or names and type names of lifelines.

To set preferences for sequence and communication diagrams:

  1. Click Window > Preferences.
  2. In the Preferences window, expand Modeling > Diagrams, and click Sequence and Communication Diagrams.
  3. On the Sequence and Communication Diagrams page, specify the appropriate preferences and click OK.
Parent topic: Managing sequence diagrams
Parent topic: Modeling the sequence of messages between objects in an interaction in UML
Related concepts
Messages in UML diagrams
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Binding operations and parameters to variables in sequence diagrams
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