Chapter 6 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Organization unit properties in an analysis BPM

You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open an organization unit property sheet, double-click its diagram icon symbol or its Browser entry in the Organization Units folder. The following sections detail the property sheet tabs that contain the properties most commonly entered for organization units.

When the organization unit is a swimlane, you do not open its property sheet by double-clicking the object as you do for any other PowerDesigner objects.

Steps To open an organization unit swimlane property sheet:

  1. Position the cursor above the symbol, until you see a vertical arrow pointing to the frame.
  2. Click to display the selection frame.
  3. Double-click the zone above the swimlane in the selection frame.

The following table details the General tab that contains the properties most commonly entered for organization units:

Property Description
Name The name of the item which should be clear and meaningful, and should convey the item's purpose to non-technical users
Code The technical name of the item used for generating code or scripts, which may be abbreviated, and should not generally include spaces
Comment Descriptive comment for the object
Stereotype Extends the semantics of an object derived from existing objects but specific to your needs. You can type stereotypes directly in the Stereotype box of the object property sheet or select a value from the list if you have previously defined stereotypes in an embedded or imported extended model definition (.XEM) or in the process language. An organization unit has the following predefined stereotypes:

  • Role. Specifies a role a user plays
  • User. Specifies a user
  • Group. Specifies a group of users
  • Company. Specifies a company
  • Organization. Specifies an organization as a whole
  • Division. Specifies a division in a global structure
  • Service. Specifies a service in a global structure
Parent organization Displays the parent organization unit. The list contains all organization units in the model. Each time an organization unit is selected, it becomes the parent of another organization unit, the latter becoming the child. This relationship is also displayed in the Organization Units sub-tab of the Dependencies tab in the property sheet of the child organization unit

 

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