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 green italic text.
This
procedure can be used to extend any activity, not only capability patterns.
Note: 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
clickSuppress. The element is disabled in the process
view.
To add elements to an activity in an extended capability pattern:
- Find the activity's parent element. If this element is not a local element
that appears in green italic, then you need to create a contribution to this
parent first. If the parent's parent is not local, also appearing in green
italic, then you need to create a contribution to the parent first, and so
on.
- To create a contribution to an extended activity, right-click the extended
activity and click Local Contribution. The activity
becomes local and is in black. Do this with all parent elements, from the
top to the bottom, until you reach the activity to which you want to apply
the element. After you click Local Contribution,
the activity becomes local and is in black.