Functional standard (UPDM - NAF aliases)
Creation
To create a Functional Standard:
• From an Architectural Description or Service Description: right-click the Architectural Description or Service Description, point to New, point to NAF, point to Technical, and then click Functional Standard.
• From an NTV-2 Standards Definition: click the Functional Standard button, and then click in free space on the diagram.
Functional Standard button, and then click in free space on the diagram.You can convert a Functional Standard to a Standard or Technical Standard: right click the Functional Standard, point to Convert To, and then click the required command.
Appearance
When shown on an NTV-2 Standards Definition, a Functional Standard appears as follows:
Relationships
The following relationships are of importance to a Functional Standard:
• Conforms relationships between a Functional Standard and elements that conform to that Functional Standard. To create a Conforms relationship from an element: right-click the element, point to Links, and then click Conforms To.
• Forecast relationships link a Functional Standard to forecasted future Functional Standard elements.
The following sections provide information about how a Functional Standard is used in the model.
Create a Functional Standard from
Create from a Functional Standard
Only the UPDM elements that can be created from all UPDM elements (Alias, Definition, Information and Metadata).
Shown on these diagrams, tables and matrices
In addition to the NAV-2 Integrated Dictionary and NTV-1 Standards Profile, which can show all UPDM elements:
UPDM writeable properties
The following writeable properties are available on the Functional Standard tab of a Functional Standard element's Property Pages:
• currentStatus
• informationTechnologyStandardCategory
• shortName
• URI
• version