Displaying a CRUD matrix

Chapter 4 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Displaying a CRUD matrix

You can display a matrix from the model, or from a package.

The matrix shows the links between all processes and data (or resources) of the current package, in alphabetical order. You can nevertheless show the links between objects located in other packages by clicking the Include Sub-Packages tool in the Select Objects dialog box. You can also hide rows and columns that correspond to objects that are not linked.

For more information about how to show the links between objects located in other packages, see section Adding and removing objects from the CRUD matrix.

For more information about how to hide rows and columns in a CRUD matrix, see section Hiding empty rows and columns in the CRUD matrix.

What you need

To display a matrix, the current package or sub-package must contain a minimum number of objects, otherwise the Resource CRUD matrix or the Data CRUD matrix command is unavailable:

To display a matrix of type...	You need at least
Process/data	A process and a data
Process/resource	A process and a resource

To display CRUD values in the matrix, you must have previously selected data for a process or a resource flow from the Data tab of their respective property sheet.

For more information about how to select data for a resource flow, see section Selecting data for a flow or a message format.

For more information about how to select data for a process, see section Selecting data for a process.

To display a CRUD matrix:

Select Tools→Data CRUD Matrix.

or

Select Tools→Resource CRUD Matrix.

The Data CRUD Matrix or the Resource CRUD Matrix is displayed. By default, it displays all the data and processes or all the resources and processes of the current package and allows you to modify CRUD values. Empty cells correspond to objects that are not linked with each other. Thus, the corresponding check boxes are unavailable in the Current Cell Value groupbox located at the bottom part of the CRUD Matrix dialog box.

The Data CRUD Matrix looks as follows:

The Resource CRUD Matrix looks as follows:

Moving from cell to cell
You can move from a cell to another using the Arrow keys of your keyboard