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0005822CaseTalk ModelerUser Interfacepublic2026-07-28 20:39
ReporterMarco Wobben Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityhave not tried
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Target Version15.0Fixed in Version15.0 
Summary0005822: Diagram legend: explain the icons and the named colors in use
Description

The legend on a diagram tells you too little about what you are looking at.

Icons: the legend was meant to explain the markers an element carries - valid time, transaction time, transitional, artificial key, external namespace, localized labels, meta level, annotatable, task status and the ELM or ArchiMate concept type - but in practice almost none of them showed up. As soon as one element on the diagram lacked a given marker, that marker disappeared from the legend again, even while other elements were still showing it. What did survive was labelled by its internal icon key rather than by its meaning, so an ArchiMate business actor read as 'Am business actor', and the marker for valid time read as 'Future'.

Concepts and containers were listed with an icon of their own, which explains nothing: they are drawn as plain blocks, without any distinguishing mark on the diagram.

Colors: a diagram painted with the named custom colors gave no key to what those colors mean. On top of that, a color handpicked in the color dialog that ended up a fraction beside the named one was treated as a different color altogether and silently dropped out of the legend, even though the two are indistinguishable on screen.

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Marco Wobben

Marco Wobben

2026-07-28 20:39

administrator   ~0008694

The diagram legend now explains what is on the diagram.

Icons: every marker an element carries is listed and stays listed for as long as any element uses it - valid time, transaction time, transitional, artificial key, external namespace, localized labels, meta level, annotatable, derivable, task status, and the ELM or ArchiMate concept type. Each is named for what it means rather than for its icon: an ArchiMate business actor now reads 'Business Actor', and the ArchiMate name carries its layer so that a 'Role' or an 'Interface' from different layers cannot be confused on one diagram. Fact types, label types and object types are named as they are named everywhere else in the product. Concepts and containers are no longer listed - they are drawn as plain blocks, so an icon beside them said nothing.

Colors: the named custom colors used on the diagram are listed with their names. A color handpicked a fraction beside a named one is now recognised as that color, since the two cannot be told apart on screen, and the legend shows the named color itself.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2026-07-28 20:38 Marco Wobben New Issue
2026-07-28 20:39 Marco Wobben Note Added: 0008694
2026-07-28 20:39 Marco Wobben Status new => resolved
2026-07-28 20:39 Marco Wobben Resolution open => fixed
2026-07-28 20:39 Marco Wobben Fixed in Version => 15.0