Overview
Blocks group together Properties within an Application Classes to describe a feature of the product or a part of a composite device.
The functionality under menu Block Property Structure is based on Perspectives and has the purpose of creating assignments between Blocks and Properties or Blocks and other Blocks.
Perspectives serve the purpose to organize dictionary structure elements (such properties, classes, values, key questions etc.) according to arbitrary ordering criteria into libraries. Perspectives are implemented as hierarchies of classification classes (from a separate “organization objects” dictionary) to which the maintained business objects from the dictionary get related. In the perspectives the classification classes are used to organize the structure elements (like Properties, Blocks, Aspects, Values, Value Lists etc.) of a different dictionary in certain categories (e.g. organize all Properties dealing with distance measuring under a Classification Class "Distance").
In certain use cases the dictionary used for the perspective can be the same as the dictionary of the organized elements - for example for organizing Application Classes under Classification classes.
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General Information
The workspace area for connecting Properties to Blocks using the perspective views can be accessed via menu Block Property Structure.
Note: this functionality is alternative to the Assign Property/Block Reference to Block, respectively Withdraw Property/Block Reference from Block and can be used only if the perspectives for Blocks and Properties are available and configured.
Functionality
The graphical user interface of this functionality consists of the Block Property Structure (on the left side) and the Block Perspective and Property Perspective (on the right side).
The Block perspective displays the Blocks grouped under Classification Classes, while the Property perspective displays the Properties grouped under Classification Classes.
The Block Property Structure view uses the Block Perspective as basis, but is extended to also show the Properties assigned to Blocks.
In this view the user can drag Blocks (from the Block Perspective) or Properties (from the Property Perspective) and drop them on a Block in the Block Property Structure in order to create assignments between the elements.
The changes are displayed in the Block Property Structure view (in green color) as well as in the tab Changes displayed on the right side of the screen.
On pressing Save button, the system will save assignments between the source elements (dragged Properties or Blocks) and the target elements (Blocks in the Block Property Structure where the dragged elements were dropped).
Assignments between Properties and Blocks and Blocks and other Blocks can be withdrawn by dragging a Property/Block to the trash bin icon.
The changes are displayed in the Block Property Structure view (in red color) as well as in the tab Changes displayed on the right side of the screen.
On pressing Save button, the system will withdraw the assignment between Properties/Blocks and the Block where the element was previously used.