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Triples

Triples are a special kind of construct that CA Plex uses to record design information about an application. As the word implies, a triple has three parts: a source object, a verb, and a target object.

Use triple to define the objects in a model. For example, to define that an Employee entity has a field that stores an employee’s name, you would create the following triple:

Employee has Employee Name

If you wanted Employee Name to be alphanumeric and able to hold 25 characters, you would enter the following triples:

Employee Name type Character
Employee Name length 25

Important! Notice that the objects and values are not represented with bold text, but the verb of the triple is. This is the way triples are formatted in all CA Plex documentation. The verb refers to the relationship you create between the objects, or between the object and the value.