Project: EAKAT

Class: Circumstance

Parent Class(es): 

  1. Compliance
  2. Documented_Item
  3. Export_Items
  4. Identified_Item

Instances:

  • None

Subclasses:

  • None

The Situation is some set of circumstances under which the implementation or data source is valid. In other words, the item is dependent on a specific situation, where the circumstances describe the facets of the situation.

Attribute Definitions
Name Documentation Type Values Allowed Number Allowed Assumed Value
Description 

A Documented Item is an item that requires descriptive text above and beyond what the reader may gain from looking at the other attributes individually.

 
String VTYPE   0:1   
Similar_Circumstances 

These are all of the circumstances similar to this one.

 
Instance VTYPE Circumstance  0:*   
Circumstance_for_Situation 

These are all of the situations for which this circumstance is a key aspect.

 
Instance VTYPE Situation  0:*   
Name 

This is an item that readers can identify for one another by referring to a single word, or phrase.

 
String VTYPE   1:1   
Attributes
Name Documentation Type Value
Item_Source 

This is the source for the information in this item.

 
Instance 
 
Aliases 

These are all of the other names by which this item goes.

 
Instance 
Exception Path
 
Modeling Value 

This is value of including this item in the Enterprise Architecture.

 
String 
Very few businesses have well defined processes that work the exact same way for all their customers in all situations.  Typically, business people will say something like "well, in order to accomplish this activity we will use business application X, but whenever a premium customer comes then will we will use manual process Y."  In this case, the circumstance would be something like "Premium Customer."
 
Examples 

These are examples of instances of this class.

 
String 
Phone
Fax
Middle Market
Satalite Patient