Creating a Perspective

You can define a subset for the attributes , attribute groups, relationships, and relationship attributes in the root repository or target repository.

Procedure

  1. In the Project Explorer under the Repository model file, Right click on Repository on which user want to create a perspective and select New-- > Perspective.
  2. The Perspective Generator Wizard is displayed.
  3. Enter the Perspective name in the Name field and enter the description in the Description field.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Select the relationships, attribute group or the individual attributes, or relationship attributes which you want to view in the perspective.
  6. Click Finish.
  7. The Perspective Editor with the newly defined perspective is displayed.
  8. The Perspective Editor displays the tree representation of the perspective. The tree representation is not only accurate representation of your selection of the attributes, relationship attributes and the relationships but also provides better and more effective way of editing the perspective metadata after creating the perspective.
  9. In the Properties section of the Repository model all the defined perspectives are displayed.
  10. Click on the perspective link to view the perspective in the Perspective Editor.