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font-family:Arial'>I need to resurrect an old question from April:</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Gabor,</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Currently GReAT doesn't support the negative pattern withn the</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>association class with 0 pattern cardinality. We will update it in the</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>next release.</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>For you workaround, you can change the pattern with equivalent simple</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>association with the src rolename and dst rolename on two ends, and set</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>the PatternCardinality as 0. This replacement works for finding the</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>association, but not for adding the association.</span></font></pre><pre
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.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks,</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: </span></font>Gabor Madl </pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sent: </span></font>Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:14 PM</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Subject: [</span></font>great-users] Patterncardinality on connections</pre><pre
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.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi,</span></font></pre><pre
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.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I found another problem in GReAT. I want to find patterns in which two</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>models are not connected by a given connection. However, GReAT does not</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>check when I set the patterncardinalty to 0 corresponding to the</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>association class. Also, if the configuration fails and I click on</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>cancel instead of closing the cmd window GME crashes. This is really</span></font></pre><pre
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Was this issue ever resolved? I’m currently attempting to perform negative pattern matching using an association class with 0 pattern cardinality, and it doesn’t seem to work. I was, however, able to get the work-around Feng mentioned to work.</span></font></pre><pre
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