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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Apply a Capability Pattern</h1> |
| <div><div class="p">When developing a process, it is not necessary to develop the process |
| from scratch, adding descriptors one by one. You can reuse existing capability |
| patterns or even capability pattern parts to individually customize the pattern's |
| content to the particular situation for which it is applied. A capability |
| pattern must be applied to one specific activity in a process. For more information |
| see <a href="capabilitypattern.html#capabilitypattern">Capability Pattern</a>.</div> |
| <div class="section">There are two ways to apply a Capability Pattern: Copy and Extend. <p><strong>Copy |
| a capability pattern:</strong></p> |
| <div class="p">If a capability pattern is copied into a process, |
| method content elements in the capability pattern are disconnected from the |
| original. The capability pattern elements can be altered, deleted or changed |
| as you want in the process editor without affecting the original method content |
| elements. Method elements in a copied capability pattern appear in regular |
| black font. To copy a capability pattern:<ol><li>In the <a href="configurationview.html#configurationview">Configuration View</a>, |
| select a capability pattern or its parts that you want to copy into an activity |
| in a process and drag the pattern or parts into the activity to which you |
| want it to apply. To select multiple activities in a capability pattern, press |
| the CTRL or SHIFT keys while you select. </li> |
| <li>In the pop-up box that appears, click <strong>Copy</strong>. The capability pattern |
| name is displayed in black and is now available for you to edit.</li> |
| </ol> |
| </div> |
| <div class="p">Or,<ol><li>In the process view, right click an activity, and then click <strong>Apply |
| Pattern > Copy</strong>. The Select Dialog For Processes window appears.</li> |
| <li>Drill down into the process tree until you locate the capability pattern |
| you want to copy.</li> |
| <li>Select the pattern, and then click <strong>OK</strong>. The Select Dialog For Processes |
| window closes and the capability pattern is applied.</li> |
| </ol> |
| </div> |
| <p><strong>Extend a capability pattern:</strong></p> |
| <div class="p">If a capability pattern |
| is extended into a process, method content elements in the Capability Pattern |
| retain a connection to the original. Extended capability pattern elements |
| cannot be deleted or modified and appear as read-only in a green-italic font. |
| To extend a capability pattern: <ol><li>In the <a href="configurationview.html#configurationview">Configuration View</a>, |
| select a capability pattern or its parts that you want to extend into an activity |
| in a process and drag the pattern or parts into the activity to which you |
| want it to apply. To select multiple activities in a capability pattern, press |
| the CTRL or SHIFT keys while you select.</li> |
| <li>In the pop-up box that appears, click <strong>Extend</strong>. The capability pattern |
| name is displayed in green, which indicates it is part of a process defined |
| elsewhere.</li> |
| </ol> |
| </div> |
| <div class="p">Or, <ol><li>In the process view, right click an activity and then click <strong>Apply |
| Pattern > Extend</strong>. The Select Dialog For Processes window appears.</li> |
| <li>Drill down into the process tree until you locate the capability pattern |
| you want to extend.</li> |
| <li>Select the pattern, and then click <strong>OK</strong>. The Select Dialog For Processes |
| window closes and the capability pattern is applied.</li> |
| </ol> |
| </div> |
| <div class="p"><div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> If you do not want a specific activity or task in the capability |
| pattern to be included in your process you can suppress it. The activity or |
| task will not appear in the published process or be exported to a project |
| planning tool. To suppress a process element, right click the element and |
| then select <strong>Suppress</strong>. The element appears grayed out in the process |
| view.</div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section"><div class="p">To add elements to an activity in an extended capability pattern:<ol><li>Find the activity's parent element. If this element is a not a local element |
| that appears in green italic font, then you need create a contribution to |
| this parent first. If the parent's parent is not local, also appearing in |
| green italic font, then you need to create a contribution to the parent first, |
| and so on. </li> |
| <li>To create a contribution to an extended activity, right click the extended |
| activity and then click <strong>Contribute</strong>. The activity becomes local and |
| appears in a standard black font. Do this with all parent elements, top-down, |
| until you reach the activity to which you want to apply the element. Once |
| you click Contribute, the activity becomes local and is presented in standard |
| black font.</li> |
| </ol> |
| For more information see <a href="contributes.html#contributes">Contributes</a>.</div> |
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| </div> |
| <div><div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br /> |
| <div><a href="capabilitypattern.html#capabilitypattern">Capability Pattern</a></div> |
| <div><a href="replace.html#replaces">Replaces</a></div> |
| <div><a href="process.html#process">Process</a></div> |
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| <div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br /> |
| <div><a href="createareusablecapabilitypattern.html#createareusablecapabilitypattern">Create a Reusable Capability Pattern</a></div> |
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