Details bar

The Details bar in the Models & Objects view contains the Properties, Preview, Versions, and Variants tabs.

The Models & Objects view contains the database content and editing buttons to edit models and objects. The editing buttons that can be applied to the selected item are displayed.

The following image shows the Models & Objects view of the Classic view. The Models & Objects view may look different depending on the selected view or customizations that were made.

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The Properties tab gives you access to the attributes of a selected item. You can also use Satellite Modeling, to create a new connection between the selected structurally relevant object to a satellite.

Basic model objects.

These are objects that indicate the distinctive feature of a model. For a model of the Organizational chart type, the objects Organizational unit, Role, and Person are structurally relevant objects, for example. Using these items, you can build the typical hierarchy of an organizational chart.

The Event and Function objects are typical for the EPC model type and are thus structurally relevant to a business process. You can use these to establish a typical control flow. The Organizational unit, Role, and Person objects can also be inserted into an EPC. However, these objects do not constitute the distinctive feature of a business process. As structurally irrelevant objects, they act as satellites and add more detailed information to the process model. For example, you can insert organizational units and link them to functions to illustrate who carries out those functions.

An object that can be inserted in a model or diagram but is not a structurally relevant object is known as a satellite.

A satellite is an object that can be inserted in a model or diagram but is not structurally relevant in the model or diagram.

For example, an object of the Organizational unit type is a satellite in an event-driven process chain (EPC). In a model of the Organizational chart type, on the other hand, an object of the Organizational unit type is a structurally relevant object.

Preview

The Preview tab displays a preview of the model selected in the details view. Attributes, such as Type and Last change, are also displayed.

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The Versions tab displays all change lists with which the selected model has been versioned. You can open a version in the modeling component by clicking the name of the model. Because versions cannot be changed, the model is opened read-only.

Versions

The Variants tab displays all variants of the selected item. You can open the variant or master of a selected model in the modeling component by clicking the name of the model. You can open the fact sheet of the variant or master of a selected object if the database is published.

Some menu items are available for the master and variants of the selected item. You can compare the selected item with the master or variants, remove the variant relationship, find the master or variants in Explorer, and open the fact sheet.

Variants