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Model Expert Product Help

This is the help for the latest release of Model Expert.

Derived Relationships

Creating and using Derived Connectors

Defining Derived Relationships

Derived Relationships and Derived Connectors

Getting Started

Model Expert Browser

Why Model Expert?

An Introduction to Model Expert

Understanding your model – the Meta-model view

Understanding your model – the Package Dashboard

Model Expert walkthrough

Analyzing your Model

Open snapshot connector type as a matrix

Checking UML Sequence Diagrams

Include Diagram Contents in your meta-model analysis

Meta-model analysis and display options

Top 10 EA meta-model tips

Creating a Snapshot of your EA Meta-Model

Analyzing your EA Model

Calculating EA Package Complexity

What is the Severity Measure?

Diagram check rules

Analyzer defaults

Model Expert settings

EA error messages

Fixing your Model

Show & Fix Duplicate elements

Fixing a Package

Fixing a Diagram

Fast fixes for your model

Creating Reference Models

Testing your Reference Model

Importing and exporting Reference Models

Editing RM diagram properties

Editing RM Connector type properties

Stereotypes inheriting from other Element Types

Editing RM Element Connectors

Customizing Reference Model Properties

Customizing Reference Model Element Properties

Full Example – creating the ‘Core BPMN’ Reference Model

Finding Reference Models

What is a Reference model?

Creating an EA Reference Model

Tailored User Interface

Tailored Modelling Help

Preview custom properties

Reference Models and MDGs

Generating MDGs

Adding multiple new elements

Advanced customized UI properties

Customizing the EA properties UI

Editing RM Element Attributes

Validation rules

Built-in validation rules

Validating Diagrams

Validation Scripting Examples

Writing scripted rules

Modelling with Managed Packages

Making a package ‘managed’

Adding connectors to a managed diagram

Adding elements to a managed diagram

Creating a new diagram

The Guided Modelling experience

Making a package Managed or Un-managed

Reference Model Context Properties

Using Reference Models

Managing your Reference Models

Compare packages to a Reference Model

Check mode and Guided mode

Checking Instance Models

Summary Diagram

Check package against a Reference Model

Quantitative quality measures

Checking some Example Diagrams

Check a Diagram against a Reference Model

Using Reference Models

Enhanced Relationship Matrices

Validating a Smart Matrix

Advanced Multi-hop Smart Matrix

Adding New Relationships

Editing Connectors and Properties

Editing Elements and Properties

Setting up a Smart Matrix Report

Using a Smart Matrix

Model Expert Example Model

Worked Example – Stakeholders and Requirements

Model Expert Example Model