Enforcing Standards

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# Enforcing Standards

Predict offers the following options to enforce standards for the documentation of data structures and information processing systems in Predict.

This document covers the following topics:

- Forcing/Disallowing Extended Descriptions and Owner/Child Lists

- Protecting Parts of Default Extended Descriptions - Skeletons

## Forcing/Disallowing Extended Descriptions and Owner/Child Lists

        09:34:49             *****  P R E D I C T  *****             2007-05-31
                             - Modify object type definition -

        Object type code ... CE                            Modified 2007-05-31 at 13:12
                                                                 by ULH

        Object type attributes                  Default related object types
          Internal code ... 1000018               Default Parent ....*
          Name ............ CHNG-ENHANCEMENT      Default Child .....*
          Title ........... Chng-enhancement
          Object type no .* 1012000
        Edit owner ...............* D   Disallowed
        Edit description .........* F   Force
        Check description ......... Y   (Y,N)
        Object ID length .......... 32  (1-32)
        Disallowed characters .....
        Natural naming convention . N   (Y,N)

        Abstract   * Zoom: N
          Object-type to document
          change enhancements for pro-
        Screen number .... 1  of 1  (H=Header)                   Free attributes:  70

Creation of owner lists and extended descriptions can be disallowed or enforced with the parameters Edit owner and Edit description. These parameters can be set in the Metadata Administration (see screen above) or in Predict profiles.

If neither force nor disallowed is specified for owner lists, extended descriptions, it is up to the Predict user to create or modify these attributes.

## Protecting Parts of Default Extended Descriptions - Skeletons

A default extended description skeleton can be defined for any subtype of each object type with the function Extended description skeleton in the Modify Defaults menu. Parts of a default extended description or complete descriptions can be protected. Protection of descriptions is possible for subtypes of object types.

See Extended Description Skeleton in the section Defaults in the Predict Administration documentation.

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- Forcing/Disallowing Extended Descriptions and Owner/Child Lists
- Protecting Parts of Default Extended Descriptions - Skeletons