Describing State Concepts
The notion of state of a concept is represented by the State Concept.
A state concept is a situation in a concept life cycle during which it satisfies certain conditions, executes a certain activity or waits for a concept event. A state concept represents a time interval of which limits are two concept events. A state concept is a phase through which the concept passes during its life cycle.
For example, the same subscription holder can pass from "Child" state to "Adolescent" state, then to "Adult" state and finally "Senior".
Passage from one state concept to another can be conditioned by an Event Concept.
An event concept represents an event occurring during concept life, for example a change of season. An event concept marks the impact on a concept of a phenomenon internal or external to the concept. Concept events can be distinguished as concept start events, end events and intermediate events.
For example, passage from one state to another can be connected to a event, a "Birthday" for example.
Accessing the state concepts list
To access state concepts of a business dictionary in Hopex Data Governance:
1. Click the Glossary > Business Dictionaries navigation menu.
2. Click the relevant business dictionary.
The dictionary properties appear.
3. Click the Business Information page.
4. In the drop-down list select State Concepts.
The list of state concepts of the business dictionary appears.
Creating a state concept from a business dictionary
At creation of a state concept, HOPEX also creates a Dictionary State of, which represents the relationship between a state concept and its concept.
A dictionary state enables connection of a concept to a concept state, and specification of the state nature.
To create a state concept from a business dictionary:
1. Open the properties of the business dictionary.
2. Click the Business Information page.
3. In the drop-down list select State Concepts.
4. Click New.
5. Specify the name of the concept the state. You have two possibilities:
• Enter the Name (in this case a new term with the same name is created), or
• Select an existing term in the list that appears.
A term is a word or word group, that is used for a specific meaning in a specific context.
6. In the Phased Business Entity field, specify to which concept the state concept you are creating is connected.
A
Dictionary State Of is automatically created between the concept and the state concept.
7. In the Definition Text field, enter the text of the state concept definition and click OK.
The name of the state concept appears in the tree under the business dictionary.
You can also create a state concept in a concept domain.
State concept properties
State concept characteristics
The Characteristics tab of state concept properties enables access to its main characteristics.
A state concept is described by:
• its designation, which is represented by one or several terms
To modify the name of a concept in the corresponding language, you must access concept properties and modify the name of the term in the specific language. For more details, see
Concept and Term.
• A Definition
• Its Synonyms
A synonym is a term interchangeable with another term in the context of a concept of this term that has the same or almost the same meaning.
Links between a state concept and other dictionary elements
In addition to terminology characteristics, a state concept is characterized by its relationships with other dictionary elements.
• The
Super-Type tab presents concepts whose properties are inherited by the described concept, for more details see
Concept Inheritances • The Relationships > Realization tab enables association of an application architecture element to the concept.
• The Components tab presents:
Concepts connected to a state concept are not present in the properties dialog box.
