Creating a Specialization Type

You can create a customized type to specialize an existing DS type.

Note: Specialization Types names shall contain alphanumeric characters and the "_" character only.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Deploying the Specialization Package
Downloading your CATNls Files

Create a Specialization Package

You must create the package that will contain your type.

Note: Specialization Packages names shall contain alphanumeric characters and the "_" character only.

  1. From the Compass, click Social and Collaborative Apps , Data Model Customization, and select Specialize Data Model.
  2. In the List of Specialization Packages window, click New .
    1. In the Create New Package page, click ... to select the Parent Package you want to specialize.
      The List of Packages that can be Specialized window appears.
    2. Select the package, ProductCFG for example and click Submit.
    3. Enter the Package name in the Name box, MySpecializationPackage in our example.
    4. Enter the prefix in the Prefix box, exp in our example. You can enter a new prefix or select an existing one from the scrolling list.
    5. Click Done to close the window.

The new package appears in the list.

Create a Specialization Type

You can specialize an existing DS type. In this example, we are going to specialize the VPMReference type.

Note: Specialization types names shall contain alphanumeric characters and the "_" character only.

  1. In the List of Specialization Packages, click the package to which you want to add a type.
  2. In the Types List window, check one of the types you want to specialize, VPMReference in our example, and click New .
    The Create New Sub Type window opens. The parent type name appears in the Parent Type box.
  3. Enter the subtype name in the Name box, MyWall in our example and click Done.

The new type appears in the list

Add an Attribute to your Subtype

  1. Click your subtype, Mywall in our example.
    The line corresponding to the selected type turns pink.
  2. In the Attributes List frame, click New Simple .
  3. In the Create New Attribute window, define the new attribute.
    1. In the Name box, enter its name, Thickness in this example.
    2. Select its type.
    3. Select the unit.
    4. Decide if you want the attribute to be multi valuated.
    5. Enter the authorized values.
    6. Enter the value in the Default Value box.

      The Add an authorized empty value option lets you add an empty value to the authorized values when working with String attributes. When this option is set, the default value is automatically the empty value.

  4. Click Done when you are done with the attribute creation.
    Note: To have your attribute displayed in the list, click the type it is related to.

The attribute is created.