The Advanced Editor provides an advanced view of the object being
edited.
You can directly edit the values of the properties in the IBM® Business
Services Repository. This can only be used by a person who is well-versed
with the ontology model. It requires an understanding of the properties, values,
and objects that can be created or modified.
The advanced editor also provides a generic property-value interface for
viewing and editing objects. The advanced editor is very effective when dealing
with extensions to a meta-model that was created by extending the ontology.
Note: The
Advanced Editor immediately reflects all ontology changes.
Child objects
are created by introducing nesting in the property tree. The Property field
is a property of the object that is selected. The value field has the values
of these properties. The value field can be one of the following:
- A direct entry field
- A drop-down list
- A dialog button that will open a dialog
- A '+' button for adding a new child object
- A '-' button for removing a child object
Using the Advanced Editor you can edit four types of properties:
- Child objects
- Reference objects — property that references a top-level thing in the
ontology
- Thing reference points to an instance
- Class reference points to type
Note: The type of the property is driven by the ontology. For literals (String,
date, floats, etc, we use inline editors). For Enumerations (e.g. Visibility),
we embed a combo box. For references to other objects in the ontology, we
let you select one or more of these based on whether the property is marked
as functional in the ontology.
All Changes are indicated by an asterisk sign and you can save the changes
like a regular editor.