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Process Synthesis to Build an Action Diagram

The CA Gen process synthesis tool may already have been used during analysis to generate elementary processes that create, read, update, and delete, and an entity type. In certain circumstances, tool may also list entity types. The resulting action diagrams will already have entity actions, import and export views.

In creating the process action diagram, CA Gen lets the developer select actions to be performed on related entity types for the create, update and delete entity actions. For instance, if a mandatory relationship exists between two entity types, one of which is to be created, selecting this option will allow you to choose whether to read or to create the other entity in the relationship.

The developer may also request automatic attribute view selection. This directs CA Gen to create views and view matching without designer intervention. This is used when all attributes are required. Otherwise you will find it more convenient to select the required attributes when prompted by CA Gen during synthesis.