Overview
Perspectives serve the purpose to organize dictionary business objects (such as properties, classes, blocks, values, value lists) 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.
Users with Dictionary Manager Editor rights can use the perspective view to organize dictionary business object into libraries so that users can quickly find business objects in the categories where they would expect them (e.g. all properties related to frequency in an organizing category Frequency)
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Description
Users with Dictionary Manager Editor rights can use the perspectives to organize dictionary business objects into libraries by assigning them to classification classes.
The perspectives can be used for the organization of business objects as follows:
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Blocks in the Block Perspective - Blocks are organized under the defined Classification Classes
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Classes in the Class Perspective - Classes are organized under the defined Classification Classes
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Properties in the Property Perspective - Properties are organized under the defined Classification Classes
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Value Lists in the Value List Perspective - Value Lists are organized under the defined Classification Classes
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Values in the Value Perspective - Values are organized under the defined Classification Classes
Perspectives can be accessed from the list of dictionary business objects by pressing button Perspective view.
The perspective view shows on the left-hand side the the tree view of categories (classification classes) and on the right-hand side the (paginated and sortable) list view of the managed object. For a more detailed description of the graphical user interface see the chapter Perspective view
Assignment of Structure Elements
User can assign a Structure Element to classification class in the perspective either by selecting one to several Structure Elements in the list and dragging them into the tree to the desired class or by selecting the target node in the tree, selecting one to several Structure Elements in the list and pressing the Assign button.
The changes - assignments that have not been saved yet are displayed in the "Change" tab
Assignments can be saved by pressing Save button.
Removal of the Assignment of Structure Elements
User can remove the assignment of a Structure Element from the Perspective structure either by selecting one to several objects in the tree and pressing the unassign button (the checkboxes for multiple selection in the tree can be displayed by pressing the CTRL key on the keyboard), or by dragging the object from the tree to the garbage bin.
The changes that have not been saved yet are displayed in the "Change" tab
Unassignments can be saved by pressing Save button.
Create Classification Class
If needed classification classes are not available in the Perspective structure, new classes can be created by selecting a parent node (folder or classification class) and pressing create button which leads the user to the create Classification Class graphical user interface
Compare
In perspectives, data objects or structures can be compared by selecting a number of objects or structures (of the same type) and pressing a compare button. The compared objects are shown in a side by side comparison.
The side by side comparison of Structure Elements shows the relevant standard and extended attributes.
The side by side comparison of Structures shows the assigned elements in tree views. Drag and drop can be used to copy over missing objects and partial structures in this view. Performed changes get highlighted and can be saved. After saving, the system creates the assignments.