Adding relationships to diagrams

In UML diagrams, you can add relationships to diagram elements to describe how they relate to each other.

Before you can add relationships to a diagram, you must have a diagram open in the diagram editor.
To add a relationship to a diagram:
  1. In the Palette, click a type of relationship.
  2. In the diagram editor, click a classifier and drag the cursor to another classifier.

Parent topic: Managing relationships between classifiers

Parent topic: Specifying relationships in modeling diagrams

Parent topic: Specifying the flow of control and data in activity diagrams

Parent topic: Specifying the relationships in use case diagrams

Related concepts
Communication paths
Implementation relationships
Manifestation relationships
Realization relationships
Usage relationships
Relationships between model elements
Abstraction relationships
Aggregation relationships
Binding relationships
Composition relationships
Dependency relationships
Directed association relationships
Association relationships
Generalization relationships
Include relationships

Related reference
Relationship types

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