| 1) | Give
the name of the graph type in the Name field. Use
unique names, because otherwise you might encounter difficulties in selecting
the right graph type (i.e. selection lists and dialogs have several modeling
languages with the same
name). |
| 2) | Select
the project for the new graph type from the Project pull-down list. If
the project you want is not in the list, you must first open it from the
Launcher with Repository | Open
Project.... |
| 3) | Define
the properties of the graph type (see Section 2.1.3 for
details). |
| 4) | Save
the new graph type. Press the Save toolbar button
to save the definition of the graph type. This will also generate a default
dialog for the graph type. If you want to modify the default dialog select
Edit Dialog from the Property list pop-up menu.
This operation opens the dialog definition, and you can modify the appearance of
the dialog (see Chapter 4 for
details). |
| 5) | Define
the object, relationship and role types to be used in this graph type. Select
the Types tab button and in the Types tab use the Add... menu item
from each list’s pop-up menu and select the appropriate types to be
included in this modeling language. See Section 2.5.3 for more
details. |
| 6) | Define
the bindings of object, relationship and role types. Press the Bindings
tab button and in the Bindings tab select Add...
from the relationship list pop-up menu, and select the appropriate relationship
types from the dialog. Each relationship type you selected now has a (partially
empty) binding. For each binding add the appropriate role types with
Add... in the role list. If necessary, give cardinalities for those role
types in this binding. For each of the role types add the ports and object types
that can be in this role in this binding. Notice that the selection lists in
each of the relationship, role, port and object list are much shorter than in
the Types tab, because only the types selected for this
modeling language are available here. See Section 2.5.4 for more
details. |
| 7) | Define
the explosions and decompositions of the types in this graph type. Press the
Explosions and Decompositions buttons and add for each type the
graph types to which it can explode or decompose (note that if you did not save
the new Graph type in step 4, you cannot select it as the target of an explosion
or decomposition). See Section 2.5.5
for more
details. |
| 8) | Specify
any connectivity and port constraints. Press the Constraints tab button
to show the Constraints tab. Select the type of constraint and press the
Add button. See Section 2.5.6
for more
details. |
| 9) | Document
the graph type. Go back to the Basics tab and describe the graph type in
the Description
field. |
| 10) | Press
the Save button to accept the
changes. |
