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Levels of Severity

The following list describes the individual levels of severity:

• Warning-Conditions indicating that context is important.

  For example, if X is required before Y, a warning on Y appears, but it may still be possible to perform transformation and system and database generation.

• Severe Warning-Conditions in the model that have a greater degree of severity than warnings.

  In most instances, severe warnings cause errors during system implementation.

• Error-Conditions that must be corrected before the model moves to the next stage of system development.