Use long description with archimate elements?

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asked Oct 9, 2018 in Question / help by rd27 (460 points)

Is it possible to use long description with archimate elements? This doesn't seem to work:

archimate #Technology "VPN Server" <<technology-device>> [
long description
]
dave

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answered Oct 9, 2018 by Serge Wenger Work (15,620 points)

archimate  "VPN Server\nwith a very very very long\ndescription" as VPN <<technology-device>>

see http://plantuml.com/archimate-diagram

commented Oct 9, 2018 by plantuml (295,000 points)
Thanks for the workaround, Serge.
With last beta http://beta.plantuml.net/plantuml.jar you can now have:

@startuml
archimate #Technology VPN <<technology-device>> [
long description
on several lines
]
@enduml
...