Specifying City Plan Compliance Rules
An application system must follow rules imposed by the information system planner. These rules are defined at the level of each area and elements hosted in these areas must be compliant.
Two types of rules can be specified on a city planning area:
• city planning area criteria. These are MEGA objects you can connect to the area to indicate that these objects must be implemented in this area. It can be:
• an application
• a functionality
• a technical infrastructure
• an artifact
• an application service
• a standard
• and requirements.
You can define these elements in the properties dialog box of a city planning area:
To indicate for example that an existing functionality must be implemented in a city planning area:
1. Open the properties dialog box of the area.
2. Select the City Planning tab.
3. Under the City Planning Area Criteria folder, right-click the Functionality folder and select Connect.
4. Find the functionality to connect to the area and click OK.
So that the application system will comply with the city plan, one of the hosted elements of the area must implement this functionality. See Indicating Elements Hosted by the Area.
Requirements to be respected for the city planning area can be defined in the Objectives and Requirements tab.
You can analyze the hierarchical structure of a city plan. The report of the hierarchical structure enables identification of city plan area organization, and more particularly the definition of areas impacted by new functionalities.