Template:— demand_support_activity_relationship (dsar)
Context:— UK_Defence

Date: 2009/04/17 11:11:43
Revision: 1.3

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This section specifies the template demand_support_activity_relationship.

NOTE The template has been defined in the context of UK_Defence. Refer to the business context for details of related templates.

NOTE An explanation of a template and the associated instantiation path is provided in the Template overview section.

Description

This template describes how to represent a Demand Support Activity Relationship.

Business perspective

A Demand Support Activity Relationship is the means to relate a Demand (e.g. Facility Demand) to a support Activity when that Activity is a driver for the demand.

Business object definition

This information object represents the information about a Demand Support Activity Relationship.

Figure 1 — A MOOD Business Architect representation of the Business Object: Demand Support Activity Relationship

The attributes of the Demand Support Activity Relationship object are tabled below.

Attribute name	Attribute description	Attribute type	Optionality
ID	This is the identifier of the relationship. It includes both the identifier and the source organization that provides the identifier.	Identifier	Mandatory
Related support activity	This is the related support activity that is responsible for creating the Resource Demand.	Relationship to Activity	Mandatory
Related resource demand	This is the type of Resource Demand created in response to the Related support activity.	Relationship to a Resource Demand subtype.	Mandatory

Table 1 — Demand Support Activity Relationship attribute details

Model diagrams

The EXPRESS-G diagram in Figure 2 shows the templates and EXPRESS entities that are required to represent the template "demand_support_activity_relationship". The text highlighted in blue shows the template parameters.

Figure 2 — An EXPRESS-G representation of the Information model for demand_support_activity_relationship

The graphic for the template to be used in other EXPRESS-G diagrams is shown in Figure 3 below.

Figure 3 — The graphical representation of the demand_support_activity_relationship template

Input parameters

The following input parameters are defined for this template:

id (Type='STRING')

The identifier of the relationship.

source_organization (Type='STRING')

The identifier of the organization responsible for identifying the relationship.

related_support_activity (Type= 'ENTITY (Activity)' )

This is the reference to the actual facilty that is preferred.

related_resource_demand (Type= 'ENTITY (Activity)' )

This is a reference to the required facility type.

Reference parameters

The following reference parameters are defined for this template:

demand_support_activity_relationship(Type='ENTITY (Activity_relationship)')

Allow the Activity_relationship entity instantiated in this path to be referenced when this template is used.

Note: The Activity_relationship entity can be referenced in a template path by:

%^target = $demand_support_activity_relationship.demand_support_activity_relationship%

where target is the parameter to which the Activity_relationship is bound.

Instantiation path

The instantiation path shown below specifies the entities that are to be instantiated by the template.

A description of templates and the syntax for the instantiation path is provided in the Templates Help/Information section.

-- create the relationship
%^demand_support_activity_relationship = Activity_relationship%
^demand_support_activity_relationship.relating_activity -> @related_support_activity
^demand_support_activity_relationship.related_activity -> @related_resource_demand
/identifier(
    ID=@id,
    source_organization=@source_organization,
    type='activity_relationship_Identification_code',
    items=^demand_support_activity_relationship)/

Instance diagrams

The instance diagram in Figure 4 shows an example of the EXPRESS entities and templates that are instantiated by the template:

/demand_support_activity_relationship(id='', source_organization='', related_support_activity='@24', related_resource_demand='@139')/

(an illustration of the consolidated demand_support_activity_relationship template is shown in Figure 5 below.)

Figure 4 — Entities instantiated by demand_support_activity_relationship template

The instance diagram in Figure 5 shows the graphic symbol for the template that is to be used in other instance diagrams. The example template is:

/demand_support_activity_relationship(id='', source_organization='', related_support_activity='@24', related_resource_demand='@139')/

Figure 5 — Instantiation of demand_support_activity_relationship template

Characterizations

No common characterizations of the template demand_support_activity_relationship have been identified. However, the ISO 10303-239 EXPRESS model may enable other assignments to the entities instantiated by the template.