Project: EAKAT

Class: Situation

Parent Class(es): 

  1. Categorized_Item
  2. Compliance
  3. Documented_Item
  4. Export_Items
  5. Identified_Item
  6. Sourced_Item

Instances:

  • None

Subclasses:

  • None

The Situation is some set of special circumstances under which the item is valid. In other words, the item is dependent on a specific situation, where the set of circumstances describes the specific situation.

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

These are all of the specific circumstances that define this situation.

 
Instance VTYPE Circumstance  0:*   
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   
Item_Source 

This is the source for the information in this item.

 
Instance VTYPE Source  0:*   
Context_for 

These are all of the items for which this is a Context.

 
Instance VTYPE Situational_Item  0:*   
Item_Categories 

These are all of the categories for this item.

 
Instance VTYPE Category  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 
Case
Circumstance
Context
 
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 situation would include a circumstance with something like "Premium Customer."
 
Examples 

These are examples of instances of this class.

 
String 
Fax Orders from Middle Market Customers