Concept Properties
To access concept properties:
Select the object of interest and click the Properties button.
Some pages are hidden by default. To display them, click the Show/Hide button, then select the desired page.Overview
The concept overview summarizes the concept's main information:
• The business dictionary to which it belongs
• The persons responsible
• Its workflow status
• the category of data (critical, private, public, etc.)
A dendrogram illustrates the concept's environment, with its structure, associated terms and the domain in which it is used.
Characteristics
The Characteristics page of the concept properties window provides access to the main characteristics of the concept.
Some features are in hidden sections by default. To display them, click Manage sections and select the desired section.A concept is described by:
• the Abstract Concept check box, which enables specification of the concrete or abstract character of a concept
• its Definition
• its Synonyms, Hypernyms and Hyponyms
Components
The Components page presents:
• the list of concept components held. See Concept Components.
• The list of concept power components. See Describing Concept Power Components.
State concepts connected to a concept are not present in the properties dialog box, for more details see Concept or Individual States.The type of link between concepts is defined by the Concept Aggregation Type, which can take on the following values:
• "Referencing”: to indicate that the target concept is referenced by a link,
• "Embedded": to indicate that the target concept exists in its own right, but is included in the concept that is the source of the link,
• "Composite": to indicate that the target concept is a component of the concept that is the source of the link; if the target concept is destroyed, the composite is also destroyed.
Relationships
Super types
The Relationships > Super types page presents the concepts whose properties are inherited by the described concept.
For more details on inheritances, see Concept Inheritances. See also Concept Type.Realizations
The Relationships > Realizations allows to define the objects that the concept implements. It can be two types of realization:
• A regulatory requirement: a regulatory framework, a business policy, a quality dimension, etc.
• A realization of business information.
For more details on realizations, see Connecting the Business Concepts to the Logical and Physical architecture.Use of Data
The Data Usage displays the applications, processes, and business capabilities that use the data of interest.
The page is hidden by default. To display it, click the Show/Hide button, then select the desired page.Rules and Regulations
In the Regulations page you can define which internal or external regulations apply to the concept in question.
When a concept belongs to a data category covered by a regulation, the name of the regulation appears on this page.
To connect a regulation to the concept:
1. Click the Rules and Regulations page.
2. Click the Connect button.
A dialog box appears:
3. Indicate the type of regulation to be connected (regulatory framework, business policy, etc.).
4. In the list that appears, select the regulation in question.
For more details on regulations, see Rules and Regulations.Data Quality
On the Data Quality page, you can indicate whether a quality policy applies to the concept in question.
For more details, see Data Quality.Reports
Various report types are available on the concept:
• Data Dendrogram: illustrates the environment of the concept.
• Realization graph report: shows by which architecture elements the concept is implemented or the information elements the concept realizes.
• Use of information. This report displays:
• the domains that use this concept, with which access rights
• in which systems (applications, application systems or microservices) these areas are used and with which components of these systems, specifying the access mode (read-only or read/write).
For more information on data reports, see Data Reports and Analysis Tools.
Workflows
The Workflows page allows you to launch the data-specific design workflow on the concept.
See also Data Validation Workflow.