Concept role (UPDM - DoDAF aliases)
Creation
To create a Concept Role:
◦ From a High Level Operational Concept: right-click the High Level Operational Concept, point to New, point to DoDAF, and then click Concept Role.
On the Select Type dialog, create or select the element that is the type of the Concept Role, or create an untyped Concept Role.
◦ From an OV-1a High-level Operational Concept Graphic:
▪ Click the Concept Role button, and then click in free space on the diagram (or the High Level Operational Concept if shown). On the Select Type dialog, create or select the element that is the type of the Concept Role, or create an untyped Concept Role.
Concept Role button, and then click in free space on the diagram (or the High Level Operational Concept if shown). On the Select Type dialog, create or select the element that is the type of the Concept Role, or create an untyped Concept Role.▪ From an appropriate Modeler pane, locate the element that you want to use as the type of the Concept Role, and then drag that element to free space on the diagram (or to the High Level Operational Concept if shown).
The type of a Concept Role can be a Performer (System), Location Type, Operational Context, Performer (Operational), Organization Type, System Context, Physical Location, Person Role Type, System, Responsibility, Security Domain, Service Access, or Software element.
Appearance
When shown on an OV-1a High-level Operational Concept Graphic, a Concept Role appears as follows:
Relationships
The following relationships are of importance to a Concept Role:
◦ Arbitrary Connector relationships link a Concept Role to another Concept Role.
The following sections provide information about how a Concept Role is used in the model.
Create a Concept Role from
Create from a Concept Role
Only the UPDM elements that can be created from all UPDM elements (Representation, Definition, Information, and Metadata).
Shown on these diagrams, tables and matrices
In addition to the AV-2 Integrated Dictionary and StdV-1 Standards Profile, which can show all UPDM elements:
UPDM writeable properties
The following writeable properties are available on the Concept Role tab of a Concept Role element's Property Pages:
◦ URI