Properties can be equivalent to each other. You can make two or more properties equivalent by dragging a property to the target property. The Concept Modeler provides you with the following shortcut menus:

  • Create equivalent property.
  • Add property to equivalent property.

A property is semantically equivalent to another property if it is stereotyped with «Equivalent Property», and its tagged value is equivalent to.


To create two or more equivalent properties

  1. Drag a property, e.g., “has dad” to a target property, e.g., “has father” in the diagram pane. The shortcut menu will open.
    The Create equivalent properties shortcut menu.
  2. Select Create equivalent property. The property “has father” is now equivalent to the property “has dad”.
    Two equivalent properties "has father" and "has dad".

  3. You may add more properties to the existing equivalent properties by dragging the next property, e.g., “has papa” to the equivalent property “has father” in the diagram pane.

    The Add equivalent property shortcut menu.
  4. Select Add property to equivalent property. The property “has papa” is now equivalent to the properties “has father” and “has dad”.
    Equivalent properties in Concept Modeler.

    Tip

    Alternatively, you can make a property equivalent to one or more properties by right-clicking on it and selecting Concept Modeling > Create equivalent property from the shortcut menu, and select one or more properties from the tree in the Select Property dialog.

    The Select Property dialog.

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