Requesting 'newpage' as a top level command to allow multiple image generation from single file.

Question

It would be nice to cover use case UML diagrams in a single source file, but to allow generation of multiple images from it to include in other requisite documentation.

Answer 1

Hello,

I am not sure to understand what you have in mind.
When your talk about "multiple image from it", do you mean one image per usecase?
Could you be more specific, or give an small example ?

Regards,

Answer 2

The ability to do something like:

 

@startuml
left to right direction
skinparam packageStyle rect

:Web Customer: as User

rectangle "Merchant Website" << website >> {
  User -- (View Items)
  User -- (Make Purchase)
  (Make Purchase) .> (View Items) : <<include>>
  (Make Purchase) .> (Checkout) : <<include>>
}

newpage

  (Checkout) -- (Foobar)
 
@enduml

Comments

Similar to newpage for sequence diagrams

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Ok, I think I got the point.
The result will be the same as:
@startuml
left to right direction
skinparam packageStyle rect

:Web Customer: as User

rectangle "Merchant Website" << website >> {
  User -- (View Items)
  User -- (Make Purchase)
  (Make Purchase) .> (View Items) : <<include>>
  (Make Purchase) .> (Checkout) : <<include>>
}
@enduml
@startuml

  (Checkout) -- (Foobar)
 
@enduml

We need some time to implement this, but this is a good idea.
Regards,

Answer 3

You can now use the newpage keyword in usecase and component diagrams:

http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/usecase.html#Newpage

Regards,

Arnaud

Comments

Thanks a lot. Appreciate your hard work and dedication.