The System Architect Configuration dialog enables you to turn on or off the Methodologies supported by System Architect for view in an encyclopedia. The following choices are available:
Data modeling section
Selecting Entity Relation enables the following diagrams:
▪Entity Relation Model diagram Entity Relation Subject Area diagram
▪Physical diagram
▪Toggling on IDEF1X enables the following diagrams:
▪IDEF1X Model diagram IDEF1X Subject Area diagram
Business modeling section
Selecting Enterprise provides the following diagrams:
▪Business Concept
▪Decision Chart Flow
▪Functional Hierarchy
▪Network Concept
▪Organizational Chart
▪Process
▪Decomposition Process Hierarchy Relationship Map System Architecture System Area Map System Context System/Subsystem Structure
Selecting BPMN enables the following diagram:
▪Business Process Diagram
Selecting Process Chart and Map enables the following diagrams:
▪Process Chart
▪Process Map
Selecting IDEF0 enables the following diagrams:
▪IDEF0 diagram Node Tree diagram.
Selecting IDEF3 enables the following diagrams:
▪IDEF3 Process Flow IDEF3 Object State Transition
Selecting Simulation enables simulation property sets for the following diagrams:
▪Process Charts
▪IDEF3 Process Flow
Object modeling section
Selecting UML enables the following diagrams:
▪UML Activity UML
▪Use Case UML Sequence
▪UML Collaboration
▪UML Class
▪UML State
▪UML Component
▪UML Deployment.
Frameworks section
Selecting DoDAF enables the following diagrams:
Operational Views
▪OV-1 High Level Concept
▪OV-2 Operational Node Connectivity
▪OV-4 Org. Chart
▪OV-5 Activity Model
▪OV-5 Node Tree
▪OV-6a Operational Rules Model
▪OV-6b Operational State Transition
▪OV-6c Operational Event/Trace
▪OV-7 Logical Data Model
System Views
▪SV-1 Systems Interface
▪SV-2 Systems Communications
▪SV-4 Systems Functionality
▪SV-4 Functional Decomposition
▪SV-10b Systems State Transition
▪SV-10c Systems Event/Trace
▪SV-11 Physical Data Model
Selecting DoDAF_ABM enables the following diagrams:
Operational Views
▪OV-1 High Level Concept
▪OV-2 Operational Node Connectivity
▪OV-4 Org. Chart
▪OV-5 Activity Model
▪OV-5 Node Tree
▪OV-6a Operational Rules Model
▪OV-6b Operational State Transition
▪OV-6c Operational Event/Trace
▪OV-7 Logical Data Model
System Views
▪SV-1 Systems Interface
▪SV-2 Systems Communications
▪SV-4 Data Flow
▪SV-4 Functional Decomposition
▪SV-10b State Transition
▪SV-10c Systems Event/Trace
▪SV-11 Physical Data Model
Selecting NAF enables the following diagrams:
Operational Views
▪NOV-1 High Level Concept
▪NOV-2 Operational Node Connectivity
▪NOV-4 Organizational Chart
▪NOV-5 Activity Model
▪NOV-5 Node Tree
▪NOV-6 Concept Data Model
System Views
▪NSV-1 Systems Interface
▪NSV-2 Systems Communications
▪NSV-4 Systems Functionality
▪NSV-4 Functional Decomposition
▪NSV-10 Physical Data Model
Structured A&D section
Selecting Gane/Sarson enables the following diagrams:
▪Data Flow Gane & Sarson
▪State Transition
▪Structure Chart
▪In addition, Flow Chart and Decomposition diagrams are enabled.
Selecting Ward/Mellor enables the following diagrams:
▪Data Flow Ward & Mellor
▪State Transition
▪Ward & Mellor Structure Chart
▪In addition, Flow Chart and Decomposition diagrams are enabled
Selecting Yourdon/DeMarco enables the following diagrams:
▪Data Flow Yourdon/DeMarco
▪State Transition Structure Chart
▪In addition, Flow Chart and Decomposition diagrams are enabled
Selecting IE (Information Engineering) enables the following diagrams:
▪Data Flow Gane & Sarson
▪State Transition Ward & Mellor
▪Structure Chart Entity Relation Diagrams
▪In addition, Flow Chart and Decomposition diagrams are enabled.
Other features section
Selecting Flow Chart option on to make the Flow Chart diagram available.
Decomposition diagrams are used to diagrammatically represent an organization or a system in a tree hierarchy. Toggling this option provides the following diagrams:
▪Decomposition diagram Auto-Decomposition diagram (creates hierarchies automatically based on provided information).
Selecting XML Schema enables you to specify the structure of an XML document and constraints on its content.
Selecting TOGAF (The Open Group Architectural Framework) enables the following diagrams:
▪Business Architecture
▪Technical Architecture
iRMA - integrated Reference Model Architect is used to assist Departments and Agencies in incorporating and using the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Reference Models.
Technical Architecture target databases section
You may select one or more target databases for an encyclopedia. Selecting a database enables dialogs and tabs of specific properties for that database to be shown when you edit symbols and definitions in data models.
Target languages section
You may select one or more target languages for an encyclopedia. Selecting a language enables dialogs and tabs of specific properties for that language to be shown when you edit symbols and definitions in object models.
Advanced properties button
Click Advanced to select more specific diagram types and property sets for your project.