Editing Reference Models
Customizations for your Reference Model
When you create a Reference Model from your initial modeling, the RM which you get will have all the characteristics of that initial model: good and bad.
So it’s normal, once you have created an initial RM, to customize it. For example:
- Remove some stereotypes you don’t want to use
- Remove some connection types you don’t want to use
- Give some meaningful names to the different types of diagram, and customize what can appear in each diagram
Any modelling which is checked against your reference model will pass the check if it is allowed by your reference model. However it might not be enough to make sure that everything modelled is allowed – you may have elements or fields that MUST appear.
To specify required items, add validation rules to your reference model.
Tailoring Reference models in this way is useful when you are using your RM to check exisiting models. But what if you want to apply the Reference Models for new modelling? Model Expert gives you more options to set up your modelling team to model right first time.
Preparing for Guided modelling
Model Expert provides a number of additional settings that give your modellers even more help. You can:
- Restrict the range of types of Activities and Gateways which users can use
- Customize the attributes of each element type to give users a simpler ‘properties’ window
- Give new attributes to each activity, and make them mandatory
- Prevent users from creating NEW elements, when they should be re-using existing ones
- Make some element types mandatory
- Add help, both textual and as links to articles on your intranet, to help users to understand what they are doing
- Change the checking mode, so that users can’t break the rules
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