This feature is available in Standard, Professional, Architect, and Enterprise editions.
Smart package is a special collection of model elements.
There are two ways an element can be included in the smart package:
Manually - the user selects to include the particular element.
You can create a smart package named My Bookmarks and add frequently used elements to it.
Automatically - the element meets the set of criteria defined by the user.
You can create a smart package named Requirements v5 with the criteria “all elements of type Requirement under the package Business requirements, having tag version=5”.
The membership in the smart package is not the UML ownership; one element can belong to several smart packages.
Smart packages aggregate relevant elements, so that you can:
- Easily browse, navigate, list, and discover these elements in the Containment tree.
- Narrow the scope in both the Find dialog and the element Selection dialog.
- Define dynamic row and column scopes in dependency matrices.
Concepts
To better understand this material, please read through the following concepts.
Static contents
A collection of manually included elements.
Dynamic contents
A collection of elements automatically calculated according to the set of criteria specified by the user.