In this UAF View, you depict and analyze all relevant dependencies between Architectural Descriptions – for example, reference architectures, as-is to to-be architectures, and enterprise architecture to system architectures.
Note An ArchitecturalDescription definition can be related to the following items:
•Parallel Architecture Efforts – described by other ArchitecturalDescription definitions – on page 2 of the ArchitecturalDescription definition’s Context - Other tab.
•Operational Architectures and Resource Architectures that make it up – on the Expresses tab of the ArchitecturalDescription definition.
•Additional ArchitecturalDescription definitions that describe it, on its DescribedBy tab.
•Other ArchitecturalDescriptions that it is part of, on its Part Of tab.
•Other ArchitecturalDescriptions that it is parent of, on its Parent Of tab.
To visualize the Am-Cn Architecture References view in System Architect, use an Explorer Diagram.
1 In the ArchitecturalDescription definition for the architecture, specify the other architectural definitions it is related to (from the preceding list).
2 Create an Explorer Diagram of type Network.
3 Drag-and-drop ArchitectureDescription definition from the Explorer Tree onto the diagram
4 Right-mouse click the ArchitectureDescription symbol drawn onto the diagram, and then select Show Immediate Relatives. In the dialog that pops up, toggle on all definitions types that you want to show relationships to.
