Technologies Panel

Manage Technology

Click on the 'Manage Technology' icon to open the 'MDG Technologies' dialog. This dialog helps you to add and configure paths to additional technology files and to activate or deactivate the built-in technologies.

Publish Technology

Click on the 'Publish Technology' icon to access these options for working with MDG Technologies in general:

• Publish Diagram as Pattern - create a Pattern file from the currently-open diagram, using the 'Save Diagram as Pattern' dialog
• Publish Diagram as UML Profile - create and export a Profile file based on the currently-open diagram, using the 'Save UML Profile' dialog
• Publish Package as UML Profile - create and export a Profile file based on the current Package, using the 'Save UML Profile' dialog
• Generate MDG Technology - open the MDG Technology Creation Wizard to guide you through the process of creating and integrating the structures and resources appropriate to an MDG Technology of your own design
• Import MDG Technology - import an MDG Technology into the model either for your own use or for all users of the model; the 'Import MDG Technology' dialog displays
• Import Package as UML Profile - generate a UML Profile from the selected <<profile>>package and import it into the current model as an MDG Technology
• Import Package as MDG Technology - generate an MDG Technology from the selected <<mdg technology>> package and any <<profile>>, <<toolbox profile>> and <<diagram profile>> packages that it owns, and import it into the current model

Publish Perspective

Click on the 'Publish Perspective' icon to open the Perspective Sets dialog.