Unified Typing Reference Dictionary

This guide describes metadata types, functions and methods.

This page discusses:

V6 Data Reference Dictionary

The V6 Data Reference Dictionary guide enables you to know more about the data model view you can manipulate when using the Feature Specialization app, the Enterprise Knowledge Language (EKL), business rules, validation rules, and APIs (Automation and CAA).

This guide introduces a list of modelers, i.e. logical groups of types that make up an inheritance hierarchy. Those types are those you are going to manipulate using EKL. They can have the following properties:

  • Extension: The type is an extension.
  • Extensible: The type can be extended, i.e. can be assigned an extension.
  • Specializable: The type can be derived.
  • Abstract: The type is used for classification purposes.
  • New (CAA): The type can be created using a CAA API.
  • New (EKL): The type can be created using the New function in EKL.

Before Reading this Guide

You must be familiar with the Enterprise Language Knowledge (EKL). To know more about this language, see the Engineering Rules Capture User's Guide.