Filtered views

A filtered view represents "a view on top of another view", which can be used to filter (include or exclude) specific elements and/or relationships, based upon their tag. In summary, you create a view with all of the elements and relationships that you want to show, and then create one or more filtered views on top, specifying the tags that you'd like to include or exclude. The main benefit of using filtered views is that element and relationship positions are shared between the filtered views.

Notes

• Filtered views can be created on top of static views only; i.e. System Landscape, System Context, Container, and Component views.
• Once a filtered view is defined for a given "base view", that base view will no longer show up in your diagram list. This is by design. If you'd like to see the base view too, just create another filtered view for the same base view, which includes the Element and Relationship tags.

Example

A typical usage scenario is something like showing the current state vs future state. Here we might define a single System Landscape view, with two filtered views on top; one showing the current state, and the other showing future state.