12.5. Documentation Tab

Within the UML 1.3 standard, all artifacts are children of the Element metaclass. The Element metaclass defines a tagged value documentation for comment, description or explanation of the element to which it is attached. Since this tagged value applies to every artifact, it is given its own tab in the details pane, rather than being part of the Tagged Values tab.

Figure 12.7, “A typical Documentation tab on the details pane” shows a typical documentation tab for an artifact in ArgoUML.

Figure 12.7. A typical Documentation tab on the details pane

A typical Documentation tab on the details pane

The fields on this tab are the same for all artifacts.

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ArgoUML is not primarily a documentation system. For artifacts that require heavy documentation, notably use cases, the use of the See: field to point to external documents is more practical.