Architecting and designing > NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) > NAF v3 > Creating Programme View products for NAF 3 > Building NPV-2 Programme to Capability Mapping diagrams > Creating custom default milestones for projects (NAF 3)
  
Creating custom default milestones for projects (NAF 3)
You can create your own set of Milestones for any Project. You can also define a standard set of Milestones so that all new Projects that you add to a diagram automatically have the standard set.
If there are no existing Projects on an NPV-2 diagram, the milestones specified in the "model" Acquisition Project for an encyclopedia become the default milestones set for all new Projects drawn on a diagram. The "model" Acquisition Project is predefined with the set of MODAF-specified milestones. You can change this set by editing the model Acquisition Project.
1 In the Definitions grouping of the Explorer (Browser) of an encyclopedia, navigate to the Acquisition Project definition.
There is a Acquisition Project named Model Project. This definition instance is loaded into the encyclopedia upon creation of any NAF or MODAF encyclopedia, as shown in the following image.
2 Open the Model Project.
3 Do one of these:
Leave the MODAF-standard set of milestones.
Add your custom milestones.
Result
If there is at least one Acquisition Project already drawn on an NPV-2 diagram, then any additional new Projects drawn on the diagram contain Milestones as specified in the topmost Project on the diagram.
Acquisition Projects dragged onto a diagram from the Explorer (Browser) display the Milestones contained in their definition, not the ones specified by MODAF or the ones on the topmost Project on the diagram. Projects on a diagram no longer have to share the same set of milestones as defined in the topmost project, nor must they must appear in the same order. Therefore, you can create a diagram that has a heterogeneous group of Acquisition Projects definitions.
See also
Building NPV-2 Programme to Capability Mapping diagrams