RMIM Designer Documentation (OtherDocs)

Overview

2010/11 Updates

VocabMIF

DataTypeReleases

BatchProcess

CommandLine

Errors/Install

Vis2002-3-7-10-13

Other Documentation

The documentation provided here is intended to collect but not to reproduce earlier documentation. The following sources have been made available on the Wiki site for your use. They include:

Primary Documentation As Compiled Help in a ZIP file (2004)

This documentation was published in 2004 as the result of a graduate student project at the University of British Columbia. It is well-done, correct and highly usable. It documents both the RMIM Designer functionality and the representation (iconography).

Documentation Update (2006) in PDF format

As the functionality of the RMIM Designer expanded, the file listed above was released. Its table of contents follows:

1. Introduction
   1. Creation and use of "local" CMETs
   2. Changes in the handling of "formal naming" and "stubs"
   3. Batch Process for Creating Clickable Grphics
2. Defining & Using "local" CMETs
   1. Determining the CMET name, identifier and related information
   2. CMET reference for use by RMIM Designer
   3. Adding your CMET design to repository
3. Software Installation and Naming Source File
   1. Binding to RMIM Designer
   2. Changing source data file
4. Designating Class Clones as "Stub" classes
   1. Qualifications for a stub class
   2. Making the change in Visio
   3. Seeing/making change in RoseTree RMIM view
   4. Effect on RoseTree HMD view
   5. Changes to "*.hmd" output file
5. Batch Creation of Clickable Graphics
   1. Installing RMIM Designer in Visio
   2. File Structure for Batch Graphics Creation
   3. Running the Batch Process

Documentation Update (2007) in PDF Format

It is a PDF of a PowerPoint that summarizes:

1. Documentation enhancements
   • Business names
   • Multiple annotation types for each clone
2. Establishing Default and Fixed attribute values
3. Data types and flavors
4. Setting cardinality and length (of a field)
5. Vocabulary constraints
6. Use of the Visio "XML" file for documentation
7. Guidelines on annotations and constraints