The sections in the Overview tab are
common to the Meta Entities, Meta Entity Types or Meta Data Aggregates
such as the name, label, Keywords, Composition and
the Documentation. However, some of them are
specific to the entity type, such as the list of the User Entities
created from the Meta Entity or the section Entity which
is specific to the Meta Entity type. From the sections with read-only
data, you can access the tabs where the information can be modified
with the use of buttons.
Description of the tab
Three sections
are not tabs themselves. They are displayed in the
Overview tab
only:
Alerts and Action Items,
General
information, and
Generation parameters definition (on
some entities).
All the other sections provide links to the corresponding
editor tabs.
If information is displayed in each section, you
can:
- Click it if it is displayed as a link. You automatically switch
to where the information has been specified.
- Or click the More button to switch to the
corresponding tab.
If no information is displayed in the section, click
the arrows located in front of the section name. It gives you access
to the More button. Click it to access the
corresponding tab.
The sections of the tab
- Alerts and Action Items
- Any problem related to the current instance (for example: if the
instance calls another instance which has been deleted...) is displayed
here as a link. If you click this link, you automatically switch to
the Problems view, where the line corresponding
to the error is highlighted. The error is clearly explained and you
can correct it.
General information displays
the following fields:
- Work context
- The work context is the project from which you have opened the
editor of the current instance. This project constitutes the starting
point for the resolution of the dynamic links and references between
the instances contained in the various projects of the location. The
projects hierarchy declared in the design build path is explored in
an upward direction.
If you click Hierarchy,
you can see a partial view of the design build path. In this view,
the project which constitutes the work context is the lowest project
of the hierarchy.
More information can be found in the following
topics: The work context and The design build path.
- Name
- The instance name is displayed in read-only mode. It is entered
when the instance is created and cannot be modified later.
- Label
- Enter the label, which identifies the new instance. It constitutes
a search criterion for a subsequent search.
User entities
In this section, you find
the list of 'User entities' which are instances of the Meta
Entity. If no User Entity has ever been created for this Meta Entity,
the list is empty.
From the other sections, you can switch to the following
tabs of the Meta Entity editor:
- The Composition tab, to describe and define
the structure of a User Entity.
- The Documentation tab, to write comments
on the Meta Entity,
- The Keywords tab to specify the keywords
for the Meta Entity.