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Entity View Definition

CA Gen can capture the following details for each entity view:

• Name—As shown in the previous example, the entity view name should be a modifier of the entity type name. The combination of entity view name and entity type name must be unique within the views of the process.
• Description—In CA Gen, the description for a view of any kind is optional. It is necessary only when the purpose of the view is not clear from its name.
• Optionality—You may specify optionality only for import views.
• Mandatory import views—If an import entity view is specified as mandatory, each of its attribute views specified as mandatory must have a value when the process to which it belongs begins execution.
• Optional import views—If an import entity view is specified as optional, none of its attribute views need have a value, even if specified as mandatory for the entity type.

The optionality condition for an optional entity view may be specified in the same way as the optionality conditions for attributes or relationship memberships. This condition can be stored as part of the entity view description.