Because it is shipped with the tool in the form of a database, the Simulation_Tutorial encyclopedia must first be attached to your server before you begin work. Attaching a tutorial encyclopedia to a database is performed using System Architect’s Startup Wizard; you can also use System Architect Encyclopedia Manager (SAEM), or Microsoft’s Enterprise Manager tool.
Example encyclopedias provided
Several ‘example’ encyclopedias are in directory <C>:\Program Files (x86)\UNICOM Systems\System Architect Suite\System Architect\Encyclopedias. They are provided as .mdf files, and include:
▪Samples.mdf
▪Tutorial.mdf
▪Object Model.mdf
▪DoDAF Samples.mdf
▪DoDAF_Tutorial.mdf
Prebuilt simulation tutorial encyclopedias are in directory <C>:\Program Files (x86)\UNICOM Systems\System Architect Suite\System Architect\Encyclopedias\Witness. Again, they are provided as .mdf files: ▪Simulation_Tutorial.mdf
▪Simulation_Completed.mdf
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What is an encyclopedia?
Work that you do in System Architect is stored in a project encyclopedia. You may create an encyclopedia for every project, or have multiple projects in one encyclopedia.
Encyclopedias are created as databases in either SQL Express, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, or Oracle. The relationship between the encyclopedia and the database is one-to-one. That is, the encyclopedia is a database; one database contains just one encyclopedia.
All of the diagrams and all of the definitions, both those associated with diagrams and those that are not, are in the encyclopedia. If you have several projects, you may have several encyclopedias, but that is entirely an individual decision.
For example, you can build an enterprise encyclopedia in which you keep all the information relating to your company’s standards as well as information that has been used in old projects. When the company decides to start a new project, such as an Accounts Payable (AP) system, those parts of the enterprise encyclopedia that should be used as a ‘leaping off point’ for the AP system are exported to a new encyclopedia. After the AP system has been completed, some of the information discovered in the process of designing that system might be merged into the enterprise encyclopedia.
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