Impact Analysis for Registry Objects

You can carry out an impact analysis for any registry object in the CentraSite registry. An impact analysis helps you determine which registry objects will be affected by changes to a selected object.

Textual impact analysis: A textual impact analysis retrieves registry objects that have associations or implicit references with a selected object and displays them in the Contents View. The list shows which objects will be affected by a change to the selected one.

To carry out a textual impact analysis for a registry object, select the object in a CentraSite navigation or list view and choose Impact Analysis > Textual from its context menu.

Graphical impact analysis with the Impact Analyzer: The Impact Analyzer View represents registry objects and their Associations Between Registry Objects with other objects graphically. The Impact Analyzer's graphical representation is displayed using a Flash-based Web browser. You can see the inter-dependencies of the objects and navigate the object structure. The menu options in the view's menu bar allow you to determine exactly what you want to display, and to resize and print the graph as required.

You can open the Impact Analyzer view from a selected registry object in a Views by choosing Impact Analysis > Graphical - Analyzer from its context menu.

Important:
If you are running Designer on a 64-bit operating system, ensure that you have installed the Adobe Flash Plugin 64-bit in the 64-bit Web browser.

For each type of impact analysis, you can specify exactly which types of objects, associations and implicit references are to be taken into account and to be displayed in the Impact Analyzer or Contents view.

To do this for the graphical analysis with the Impact Analyzer, start an analysis and specify the corresponding settings using the Customizing Options for the Impact Analyzer. When the view is opened, the results of the analysis are displayed with the most recent settings that you have used.

To define the settings for the graphical analysis with textual analysis, specify the corresponding options in the Customize Dialog dialog, which you can invoke in one of the following ways:

Select Impact Analysis > Customize from the context menu of a registry object in a CentraSite navigation or list view.

Be aware that the settings you make in the Customize dialog are valid for both graphical and textual impact analysis.

Note:CentraSite automatically performs an implicit impact analysis when you attempt to perform an operation that might violate overall system integrity by breaking usage relationships (for example, when you try to delete a Web service that is still in use by a business process). In such cases, you will be prompted for confirmation or the operation will not be executable at all.