Project: EAKAT

Class: Technical_Timeline

Parent Class(es): 

  1. Calender
  2. Categorized_Item
  3. Change
  4. Export_Items

Instances:

  • None

Subclasses:

  • None

This is the "state" of a technical item. State, like the arrow of time, is a separate dimension that is critical when describing the future of something. Everything in the architecture that has an associated timeline has a future different than what is currently known to be true.

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

This is the calender for this item.

 
Instance VTYPE Target_of_Technical_Advance  0:1   
Technical_Timeline_Transition 

These are all of the advancements to this technical calender.

 
Instance VTYPE Technical_Transition  0:*   
End_Day 

This is the day that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Start_Month 

This is the month that the calender for this item starts.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Start_Year 

This is the year that the calender for this item starts.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Start_Day 

This is the day that the calender starts for this item.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Replaced_Technical_Timeline_for 

These are all of the technical calenders for which this is an advanced calender.

 
Instance VTYPE Technical_Replacement  0:*   
Item_Categories 

These are all of the categories for this item.

 
Instance VTYPE Category  0:*   
End_Year 

This is the year that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
End_Month 

This is the month that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
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 
 
Modeling Value 

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

 
String 
The value of the Technical Timeline class is that it enables users to changes to the future of a Technical thing, versus trying to describe the changed Technical thing.
 
Examples 

These are examples of instances of this class.

 
String