Duplicate Relationship

Normally the specification of relationship contains a set of values and those values are similar when creating a new relationship. In order to reduce those user actions for setting similar values of relationship, Duplicate Relationship is introduced. With Duplicate Relationship, all values within relationship's specification, such as Stereotypes and Tagged Values, are reused.

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Duplicating a Relationship

The following shows the steps require to duplicate an existing relationship.
1.	Right-click on a relationship. In the popup menu, select Duplicate... to open Duplicate dialog.
2.	If the duplicated relationship is required to have a different name, input the new name into Name.
3.	Select Source for specifying the from shape of duplicated relationship.
4.	To specify the to shape of duplicated relationship, select Destination.
5.	Finally, click OK to duplicate the relationship.
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After duplicate

Changing From or To End of a Relationship

The following shows the steps for changing the from and to end of an existing relationships. The steps involved are similar to duplicating a relationship.
1.	Right-click on a relationship for showing popup menu. Then click Change From/To Shape... to open Change From/To Shape... dialog.
2.	If the from shape of relationship is going to change, select the shape in Source.
3.	Select the shape in Destination, when the to shape of the relationship is required to change.
4.	Finally, click OK to change the relationship.
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