Creating and Editing a Technological Type

You can create and edit technological types to extend DS types and thus adapt the types to your needs.

This task shows you how to:

Create a Technological Type

From the Compass, click Social and Collaborative Apps  and select Feature Specialization.
Enter a name and click OK.
From the Objects Management section, click Create Technological Type .
Type the name of the type and click ....
Select the type you want to extend in the Types Browser and click OK.
The created type now derives from the type you selected in the Types Browser.

Important:

Type names shall not contain spaces and non-alphanumeric characters.
When you create a type, it becomes the current one and is underlined.
The new type is a root type if an existing type is not selected. It is a subtype if you selected a type.

Notes:

: Root application types, called classified types, declared in the Knowledge dictionary and types deriving from this dictionary.
: Types created in the Know-how Apps Components app deriving from another Know-how Apps Components type or not.

You can rename a classified type in a knowledge component.

Note: You cannot rename the type if:

The type comes from a Knowledge Component created before R2014 and read in R2014 and further releases.
The type is issued from a FBDI operation from a V5 .CATFct documents created before the V5 level matching the R2014 level.
The type has been frozen.

Select the type in the tree.
Enter a name in the Name box in the Attributes tab and validate.
A message is displayed indicating that the type is added to the Knowledge Dictionary.
Click OK.

The type name is modified in the Name box and in the tree.

You can lock a type name so that it cannot be modified any longer.

Select the classified type in the tree.
Select the Freeze the type name and all its local attributes names option in the Attributes tab.
Click OK.
The type name is frozen and cannot be modified any longer. An icon is displayed next to the type name indicating that its status is "frozen".
Notes:
- Freezing the type also freezes its local attributes names.
- Freezing a type does not prevent you from adding a new attribute to this type. In this case, the attribute name is frozen too.
- A new sub-type of a frozen type is not frozen by default, it does not inherit the frozen status.

You can freeze the names of all classified types and their related attributes in a Know-how Apps component.

Right-click the List of Types node and select Freeze all classified types names.
Click OK.
All classified types names are frozen. This operation cannot be undone.