App Kinds
- Governance app
- Mostly Web applications ensuring governance business process such as Requirement, and
program management for example.
- WIP app
- Mostly Desktop applications ensuring Work In Progress business process such as Product Structure Design, and Functional & Logical Design.
Abstract/Concrete Status
- Abstract
- An abstract element (which can be a type or an extension) is only created to share
some attributes with its concrete (sub)-elements. Abstract elements cannot be
instantiated and are not displayed in the native or web apps.
- Concrete
- A concrete element can be instantiated and is displayed in the native or web apps.
Naming Terms
- Internal Name
- Name given to a specialization element at creation time.
- External Name
- Name of a specialization element that appears on the end-user apps according to the end-user app's language. You can define an external name for each
supported language.
Specialization Elements
- Type
- Type of objects delivered by apps.
- OOTB DS Type
- Type delivered by DS. Some of them can be specialized, that is derived, by customers.
- Specialization type
- Type created by a customer by deriving a specializable OOTB DS type.
- Attributes Group
- Attributes group enable the administrator to add attributes to existing DS types.
- Extension
- An extension defines an additional attribute for a requirement, specification,
specification folder, chapter, comment, test case, or use case. Use extensions for
customizing a requirement or specification for your company. An extension added for an
object, such as a chapter or specification, automatically appears on forms for that
object. For example, the extension appears on the Properties page
for a requirement.
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