UML Association cardinality in Visio 2013

Question

Is there a way to define cardinality (1:1, 1:N, N:M,...) of associations in UML class diagrams in Visio 2013?

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

Hi,

Use relationship to create the associations in UML diagrams.

Then double click the relationship, enter the cardinality.

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Jaynet Zhang
TechNet Community Support

Answer 2

Hi Jaynet,

thanks for your reply. I tried the approach that you describe but it is not useful for vertical relationships. Look at the example below - it is not clear what is the relation between A and C. Previous versions of Visio had specific attributes in properties of class associations. Are they gone in Visio 2013 (as most UML features)?

Answer 3

modeling support for both uml and database was dropped in v2013.

al

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Al Edlund Visio MVP

Answer 4

Ok, that means bye-bye Visio as a SW project documentation tool. Which actually brings a question if there is some value of the whole MS Office stack for a software development company.

Answer 5

Hi, it looks like all the UML-support is in Viso 2013 now.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/about-uml-models-HP001208814.aspx

Answer 6

Hi Nicklas, your link points to Visio 2007. We are talking aboyt Visio 2013. UML support was dropped in it. Quite symptomatic......  

Answer 7

You need to right click the relationship and you can set the beginning and end cardinality whether its

• zero or more
• 1 or more
• 1 and only one
• zero or 1

It's not great for setting a maximum on a relationship though. It does have an option "show multiplicity" which helps to some degree.

Answer 8

modeling support for both uml and database was dropped in v2013.

al

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Al Edlund Visio MVP

Not sure where you got this from. UML support is definitely there in Visio 2013. Not very user friendly but it's there.

Answer 9

Al said modelling support, not just UML support.

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Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Engineering and software shapes for Visio
Sandrila Ltd