Creating a Goal Model

[stevesavage]

I'm trying to create a Goal Model in EA.  (see Business Modeling with UML: Business Patterns at Work)

I was able to create the Quantitative and Qualitative Classes, both stereotyped as "Goal".  

For Quantitative I added the typical attributes of: Description, Target, Current, and Unit of Measure.

I've created an object from the Quantitative Class.  But I can't find where I set the attribute values for the object.   Its probably staring me in the face, but so far no luck through experimentation or the online help.

[stevesavage]

I was beginning to think what I want to do can't be done, which would be very odd.  

But if you look at the deployment model example on page 1302 of the EAUserGuide.pdf, and also at the same diagram in the EAExample model.  They've done exactly what I want to do.  

They create a class called Dell PowerEdge 6650 with the attributes Disks etc., and then create an object from that class that they set the attribute value to 3 x 120GB.

My problem:  I still can't find where they set the attribute values for the object.  

[fwoolz]

SS,

Are you talking about a class or an instance of a class?

If the latter, you can set the values of attributes by right clicking on the object, the selecting 'Advanced'>>'Set Run State'. You can then set the values of the attributes or apply constraints, e.g., <, >, <=, >=, etc.

Fred W

[stevesavage]

Instance of a class.
And that was exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks fwoolz.

I guess I wasn't thinking as a coder.  I was looking for something like
"set attribute value".

[beginner]

You might have missed that the Analysis diagram has an Object element which can be stereotyped with <<goal>> (though it's missing some of your tags).

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[stevesavage]

I did look at them, but decided I wanted to have the Quantitative and Qualitative Parent Classes to better organize and track the goals.

[beginner]

I think it would be desirable to have these tags in the standard profile from Sparx. Makes pretty much sense.

b.