About Technological Types

A technological type is an object made up of two sets of components:

This page discusses:

See Also
Creating and Editing a Technological Type
Creating and Editing an Attribute

A Type

You can create your own types:

  • Know-how Apps Components Types: A type created in a knowledge component that does not inherit from any other type or that can inherit from another type you created with no inheritance.
  • Classified Types: A type created in a knowledge component that inherits from a knowledge type or from another classified type.
Note: A knowledge type is a type created in the knowledge dictionary.

A Set of Attributes (Variables)

Attributes are added to the technological type and are located in the types hierarchy. They are of literal types.

Note: Types can be used in Engineering Rules Capture, Quality Rules Reuse rules and checks and by the Find command when supported by the final app.