Stereotype Profiles

In Enterprise Architect 6, an MDG Technology could consist of many UML Profiles, each representing an Enterprise Architect UML Toolbox page. Each profile could include stereotype definitions alongside redefinitions of standard UML elements. This meant that to define a stereotype in a technology, it had to appear in one of the Toolbox pages.

Releases from Enterprise Architect 7 take a different approach, splitting the task of defining the stereotypes and the task of defining the Toolbox pages into separate profiles. The MDG Technology's stereotypes are contained in one or more profiles. The stereotypes within each profile use the profile name as the namespace.

Create one or more packages with the «profile» stereotype, each package name being the namespace. Within each package create profile diagrams defining all the stereotypes in the namespace. You can use multiple diagrams to do this, but do not use nested packages.

Give the «profile» package a description in the Notes field (e.g. MDG Technology for BPMN). When all of the stereotypes are defined (make sure that every stereotype extends at least one Metaclass) right-click on the profile package in the Project Browser and select the Save Package as UML Profile context menu option, then proceed as usual.