Identifying Parent-Child Relationships in Models

 

GENESYS easily identifies Parent-Child relationships in models with up and down arrows. An up arrow identifies a Child-Parent relationship and a down arrow identifies a Parent-Child relationship.

 

When creating these relationships in the Project Browser pane, the Child-Parent and Parent-Child relationships have up and down arrows next to them, respectively.

 

To create a Child-Parent relationship:

 

1. Left-click on the potential Child entity and drag-drop it onto the potential Parent entity.

 

2. Select “á built in” for the Child relationship on the drop-down menu that appears, as shown below:

 

 

The new relationship appears in the Targets & Attributes pane on the bottom left side of the window. If the Parent entity is highlighted in the Browser pane, “built from Component Child” displays in the Targets & Attributes pane, as shown below.

 

 

If the Child entity is highlighted in the Browser pane, “built in Component Parent” displays in the Targets & Attributes pane, shown below.

 

 

NOTE:

GENESYS enables you to create Child-Parent relationships with any of the classes. For instance, if you make a function a child of a parent function, it is represented by the decomposes/decomposed by relationship.

 

The new Child-Parent relationship is shown on the Hierarchy diagram, shown below.

 

 

The BDD also shows the new relationship.

 

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