Data access link properties

Chapter 3 Building Information Liquidity Diagrams

Data access link properties

You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open a data access link property sheet, double-click its diagram symbol or its Browser entry in the Data Access Links folder. The following table details the General tab that contains the properties most commonly entered for data access links:

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).
Database, XML document, data access application or conceptual data (target data store)	Database, XML document, data access application or conceptual data the data access link ends on. You can use the tools to the right of the list to create an object, browse the complete tree of available objects or view the properties of the currently selected object.
Database, XML document, data access application or conceptual data (source data store)	Database, XML document, data access application or conceptual data the data access link starts from. You can use the tools to the right of the list to create an object, browse the complete tree of available objects or view the properties of the currently selected object.
Access Type	Way to access data. Defines the data access link direction. You can choose one of the following access types to access data in a data store (database, XML document, data access application or conceptual data): Read-only, Write-only, Read/Write.