Extending the Essential Meta Model

The Essential Meta Model is designed with extendibility in mind. The language that is used to capture and describe an enterprise is defined in the Meta Model. The Meta Model is a tree hierarchy of Classes and Slots.

Extending by adding new classes and slots

• Classes defines the types of elements that can exist in the repository
• Slots define the attributes of those classes.

You can add new classes and new slots to suit your organisation's needs

There are 2 ways to extend the Meta Model:

• By making changes directly to the tree hierarchy of a given repository by creating new classes and/or slots.

To add a new class, navigate to Configure -> Class Editor menu and click on Add as shown in the image below.

Creating a New Class



Adding the details of newly created class



To add, create, edit or remove slot(s), Configure -> Class Editor menu and click on the relevant button as shown in the image below

Adding, creating, editing or removing a new slot





How to

• By applying an extension using an Essential Update Pack (EUP)

Applying Essential Update Pack (EUP)





Defining Form Layout

You can define the form layout in terms of ordering and grouping of slots by dragging and dropping the icons at the side of the slot names into the desired position

Organising slot positions



Customising Form Labels

You can add the label names of slots which appears in the forms for each element in the meta model

Customising Form Labels of Slots