Example of the Definition of a Semantic Group
Icons are displayed in the editor to indicate which action is performed when the semantic group is generated.
When creating a semantic group, you can create new components of the semantic group based on a reference structure. You can also include existing DataStore objects (advanced) in a semantic group. These can have different structures. Depending on whether you select the Apply Reference Structure option, and whether the structure of a DataStore object deviates from the reference structure, different icons in the editor show you which structures are adjusted during generation, which components have been changed and adjusted, which components have been deleted, and which have been added.
- SEM_GRP0 is an active component, whose structure is different to the reference. You can tell this from the exclamation mark on the icon. To prevent this structure from being overwritten, the Apply Reference flag is not set. With the next activation, there is therefore no action performed on this object.
- SEM_GRP1 is an active component, whose structure is different to the reference. You can tell this from the exclamation mark on the icon under Action. As the Apply Reference flag is set, the structure is adjusted during the next activation. You can tell this from the Change icon.
- SEM_GRP2 is an active component, whose structure agrees with the reference. As no criteria have been changed, no action is displayed. If changes were made to the reference structure however, these would be applied during the next generation, as the Apply Reference flag is set.
- SEM_GRP3 is an active component, whose structure agrees with the reference. Changes have been made to the criteria here however, and the change icon is therefore displayed for the action. As with SEM_GRP2, future changes to the reference structure ar are applied, as the Apply Reference flag is set.
- SEM_GRP4 is an active component, whose structure agrees with the template. As the Apply Reference flag is not set, future changes to the reference structure are not applied.
- SEM_GRP5 is an active component that is removed from the group during generation. You can tell this from the X under Action. The DataStore object (advanced) itself is retained.
- SEM_GRP6 is created again in accordance with the reference during the next generation and added to the group. You can tell this from the
icon. - ADSO_EXT is an existing DataStore object (advanced) that should be added to the group. At present it is not known whether the structure agrees or not. A question mark is therefore displayed. Next time it is saved, the corresponding icon should be displayed there. Under Action, a + is displayed.
If you choose Generate in this status, the system displays a list for each object showing which actions are performed on it, as in our example:
