Chapter 4 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Linking a data to an object

After you have identified the type of information exchanged between business processes, you can specify the nature of the transported data by linking the data to a CDM, an OOM or a PDM object.

The object you can select for linking depends on the type you defined for the data.

For more information about the different types a data object can have, see section Data property sheet Definition property.

Only objects contained in models open in the workspace can be selected.

When you link a data to an object, the object name is displayed in the Definition box of the data property sheet.

For more information about the Definition box, see section Data property sheet Definition property.

The object name is also displayed in the list of data, where it replaces the data default name.

To link a data to an object:

1. Open the data property sheet.
2. Select a type from the Type list.
   
3. Click the Select Definition Object tool beside the Definition box to display the Select an Object dialog box.
   
   It allows you to select an object from a model open in the workspace corresponding to the type of data you selected.
4. Select an object in the tree view and click OK.
   
   
   The object name followed by (Shortcut) is displayed in the Definition box of the data property sheet.
   
   When you change the type of the data so that it no longer corresponds to the object defined in the Definition box, a message box asks you to confirm the change, and the link between the data and the object is broken.

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