multiplicity and role name for both ends of an association

Question

Currently there doesn't seem to be a way to specify both the role name and multiplicity for an association end.

 

One could, in theory, do something like this

Transaction "1 initiating" -> "* initiators" ActorRole

 

however this converts the "*" into a dot, plus the layout is really bad; in UML digrams one normally places the end name and the end multiplicity on different sides of the line.

 

Perhaps a new syntax could be introduced, e.g.

Transaction[1] "initiating" -> "initiators" ActorRole[*]

 

(where [1] would be optional/default).

 

 

Comments

To work around this, I just append the multiplicity to the label string. Not ideal, since the layout can sometimes be confusing. But it gets the point across.

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To get rid of the dot you could try the ~ characer to escape the creole formatting:
Transaction "1 initiating" --> "~* initiators" ActorRole

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I second this. I have the same issue. Role names and multiplicity don't fit if you've only go one label.

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I third this, I would also love this feature - roles are a very useful feature when one wants to describe the name of a reference to some object/class (especially if the relation goes both ways, since the current label can only describe one direction).