Actor dialog box

Actors

An actor is defined in a package.

An actor symbolizes a user and his relationship to an application model. It will be used by use case diagrams and sequence diagrams and represents the modeled system's external participants.

The "Actor" dialog box contains four tabs - "Properties", "Notes", "Tagged values" and "Stereotypes". For information on these standard dialog box tabs, please see "Standard dialog box tabs".

The "Properties" tab of the "Actor" dialog box

The "Properties" tab of the "Actor" dialog box is used to define values for an actor.

The "Properties" tab of the "Actor" dialog box

Key:

· "Name": The actor’s name. This name must be unique in the model.