Data Model Details
From the Details tab, users can review detailed information about model nodes, create new nodes, and edit or delete existing nodes. Not all of types of nodes can be created, edited, or deleted, and there are some nodes which will not appear in this user interface. The nodes accessible through the details tab and their available user interactions are summarized below. Note that from anywhere in PHENOM, if the user double clicks on a node, she/he will be redirected to the details page of the selected node.
Constraints
Constraints limit the possible values of a view attribute to which they are applied. The nature of the constraint is based on the primitive type employed by the view attribute.
Entities and Associations
Entities and associations are the basic building blocks of a Domain Specific Data Model (DSDM); they represent the different real-world entities and relationships present in the domain as well as those entities' and relationship's properties.
Entity Attributes
Entity attributes represent the properties of and compose their parent entity.
Measurements
Measurements are a part of the Logical Data Model (LDM) and their properties can be edited within PHENOM.
Measurement Systems & Coordinate Systems
LDM level systems determine the properties of measurements used in the project and direct the conversion between them.
Messages
Messages of the Message Data Model (MDM) provide a way to connect the Platform Data Model (PDM) and the views contained in it to "wire-level" transmission protocols.
Observables
Observables are part of the Shared Data (SDM) and cannot be created or deleted.
Packages
PHENOM's Packages function like folders that help users organize components of the project as well as their own files and content.
Platform Type/Enumeration editing
Platform Types are used to relate a View Characteristic to an LDM Measurement. Platform Enumerations are Platform Types that have Platform Enumeration Literals relating to the realized Measurement's LDM Enumeration Labels.
Reference Point
Reference Point is used to provide a basis for locating and/or orienting a Measurement System.
Semantic Matches
Semantic matching of documented view attribute paths is the process that matches message fields of same or similar semantic meaning to each other to facilitate and, ultimately, automate the process of message set integration.
Services / UOPs & Message Ports
Both Service / UOP nodes and the message port nodes that comprise them can be viewed and edited within PHENOM.
Transport Channel
Transport Channel is a placeholder for an integrator supplied configuration between transport endpoints.
View Attributes
View attributes represent the data fields of a particular message and are used to document the contents of the same.
Views
Platform Data Model (PDM) views represent collections of data fields which are collected and transmitted in a defined message interface.