Add Page Variable to Activity Diagram

This page provides directions to add the timecardSummaries page variable to the Search Timecards activity diagram. The activity diagram is shown below for reference. Note that ArgoUML does not show information about the transition trigger (page variable) on the diagram itself.

1. Click on the transition out of Populate Search Screen and go to its property panel at the bottom of the screen.
2. Right-click in the field called "Trigger" and select NewSignal Event.
3. Leave the name field as blank - this is the only difference between modeling an event (coming out of a view) and a page variable.
4. Click on the New Parameter tool .
5. In the Parameter property panel, enter timecardSummaries as the name of the parameter and TimecardSummaryVO[] as its type.
6. Click on the Tagged Values tab and click first blank field in the left column and select the type andromda_presentation_view_table_columns from the pulldown menu. This tagged value tells AndroMDA to render the page variable as a table. In the value column to the right, enter the following column names for the value:
   id, submitterName, approverName, status, startDate
   This tells AndroMDA to display 5 columns in the table corresponding to the 5 attributes of TimecardSummaryVO. (Note that the TimeTracker prototype does not have an Id column in the results table. However, we add it here so that the id is available to each row.)

We have now added the timecardSummaries page variable to the Search Timecards activity diagram. Please go back to the main tutorial page and continue from where you left off.