问题
I am drawing some diagram, and I am wondering if it is acceptable for the actor to be in diagram more than once (for better transparency of the diagram)?
Thanks
回答1:
UMLDiagram is a composition of UMLDiagramElements, however Actor is NOT UmlDiagramElement, it is an Element. The UMLDiagramElement counterpart for Actor is either UMLShape (when shown as icon/figure) or UMLClassifierShape (when shown as a class box).
You have to keep the concepts of "UML Model" and "UML Diagram" separate. Model is a conceptual representation of your domain, and diagram is a concrete visual representation of a model.
The two elements from Model and Diagram are then connected by an association (B.2.2).
The association is N:M (and unidirectional), the model doesn't care that it is being visualized.
As far as I can tell there is nothing that would restrict you from having several visual representations of a single actor.
Lastly as both Thomas and Geert mentioned, it is a bad practice. If your diagram is so complex that you want multiple representations you should probably decompose it.
回答2:
Although UML does not forbid to use the same element more than once on a diagram, this is no good practice. Having the same UML element more than once on a diagram leads to confusion of the diagram reader. If you have the need to un-clutter connectors you probably already ran into a spider-web diagram style and you're better off to create several smaller diagrams.
Think of the implication: if any element appears more than once, then how would you know they are the same. This would lead to more confusion than it would actually help.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34372262/uml-diagrams-can-i-use-same-actor-on-one-diagram-couple-of-times