Describing Event Concepts
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.
Accessing the event concepts list
To access subject area event concepts:
1. In the Information Architecture pane, click Subject Areas > Business Information Hierarchy.
2. Expand the Subject Areas folder then the folder of the subject area that interests you.
3. Expand the Event Concepts folder.
The list of subject area event concepts appears.
By expanding the folder of a concept, you can access event concepts attached to it.Creating an event concept from a subject area
To create an event concept from a subject area:
1. Right-click the subject area that interests you and select New > Event Concept.
The event concept creation wizard appears.
2. Specify the Local Name and click OK.
3. In the Term section, the Existing Terms section lists terms with the same name as the new state concept.
A term is a word or word group, that is used for a specific meaning in a specific context.If a term has already been created with the same name as the new event concept, this term is automatically connected and appears in the Term section.4. In the Definition Text field, enter the text of the event concept definition and click OK.
The name of the event concept appears in the tree under the subject area.
You can also create an event concept in a business information area.Event concept properties
The Characteristics tab of event concept properties enables access to its main characteristics.
With HOPEX Information Architecture, the event 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.• the Definition Text,
• The Synonyms section enables specification of a list of synonym concepts,
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.For more details, see Concept and Term.• The Realization section enables association of an application architecture element to the concept.
For more information, see Connecting the Business Concepts to the Logical and Physical architecture.Connecting an event concept to its concept
The relationship between a concept and its event concept is described by:
• a Start Event,
• an End Event,
• or an Intermediate Event.
To connect an event concept to its concept in a graph associated with a business information area:
1. In the insert toolbar, click the Link button.
2. Click the concept to which the event concept is attached.
For example, "Person"
3. Click the event concept to be connected.
For example, "Birthday".
A wizard proposes selection of an event type:
• Concept Start Event
• Concept End Event
• Concept Intermediate Event
4. Select the event type and click OK.
The creation wizard of the selected concept event type opens.
5. Specify the Local Name.
6. If no term is to be created, select the "Creation without term" check box.
7. Click OK.
The link between the concept and the event concept appears in the diagram with an icon representing its type.