Usecase alias not available in rectangle?

Question

LS,

I would expect the code below to generate two png's, each with an actor called "Alice" and a usecase called "Usecase N", inside a rectangle. However, actor and usecase in the first png are printed outside of the rectangle; in the second png they are drawn using their aliases and not recognized as actor and usecase resp. Also, the 'left to right direction' keywords are not honored.

I tried to 'classify' actor and use case inside the rectangles by enclosing them with ':' and '()' resp. That helped to draw them correctly in de second png, but they where still placed outside the rectangle.

I use plantuml version 7999 as a stand-alone jar. Any help is much appreciated.

@startuml

 

left to right direction

skinparam packageStyle rect

 

usecase (Usecase 1) as usecase1

usecase (Usecase 2) as usecase2

 

actor :Alice: as user

 

rectangle Test1 {

  user -> usecase1

}

 

newpage

left to right direction

skinparam packageStyle rect

 

rectangle Test2 {

  user -> usecase2

}

 

@enduml

 

Regards,

Willem.

Comments

+1, I am having this issue in version v1.2017.15

was it solved in a new release?

Answer 1

I got the same problem, defining usecases outside of the rectangle and then using their alias inside the rectangle generates usecases outside of the rectangle on the resulting image.

The only way I found for this to work is to just define the usecases inside the rectangle, but I really would like to be able to use the aliases inside the rectangle.

Comments

Thanks for you answer. Regards, Willem.

Answer 2

You can use the following diagram:

@startuml
left to right direction
skinparam packageStyle rect
 
rectangle Test1 {
actor :Alice: as user
usecase (Usecase 1) as usecase1
usecase (Usecase 2) as usecase2
  user -> usecase1
}
 
newpage
left to right direction
skinparam packageStyle rect
 
rectangle Test2 {
usecase (Usecase 1) as usecase1
usecase (Usecase 2) as usecase2
  user -> usecase2
}
 
@enduml

Is this what you are looking for ?

Comments

I had hoped (if I remember correctly) to define the usecases and actor beforehand,  and then re-use them in rectangles. So to make the code more readable. But this will do nicely, thanks!