Do one of the following: - On the diagram pane, select the Service Association and on the smart manipulator toolbar, click . - Click and on the diagram pane, connect Services.
The Realized Service Exchange wizard consists of two steps:
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Service Exchangecreation (mandatory)
This step is designed to create a new Service Exchange by specifying a conveyed Service Exchange Item, both sending and receiving Services and a direction of a Service Exchange. Depending on a fact, if selected Services are known or not, requested information differs:
If sending and receiving Services are unknown from the wizard invocation context, you need to specify both.
If sending and receiving Services are known, they are added to a Realized Service Exchange wizard automatically.
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Description
Exchange Kind
Shows the type of exchanged items:
Information Exchange
Configuration Exchange
Energy Exchange
Material Materiel Exchange
Organizational Exchange
Conveyed Item
One or more Service Exchange Items to be conveyed by the information flow from the sending Service to receiving Service.
Exchange Kind
Conveyed Item
Information Exchange
Service Signal
Operational Information
Configuration Exchange
Resource Architecture
Energy Exchange
Natural Resource
Material Materiel Exchange
Resource Artifact
Organizational Exchange
Organizational Resources
Service Exchange
Service Exchange that specifies an information flow for specified conveyed items.
If you select an existing Service Exchange from the drop-down list, Conveyed Item and Direction boxes will be filled with corresponding information automatically. You will be able to edit the values of conveyed items.
The direction of the information flow won’t be editable.
Info
Available, if sending and receiving Services are known from the wizard invocation context.
Sending Service
Service that sends the specified conveyed information.
Info
Available, if a Service is unknown from the wizard invocation context.
Receiving Service
Service that receives the specified conveyed information.
Info
Available, if a Service is unknown from the wizard invocation context.
Direction
The direction of the information flow.
After changing the direction from the default one, the sending resource will be switched with the receiving resource. The direction of the Resource Exchange will be changed accordingly.
Note
In the Direction drop-down list, you can choose the direction of flow, i.e. what type of element is the sender and what type of element is the receiver. The drop-down list is not applicable if the source and target are the same element and the direction could not cannot be specified.
Add Service Exchange to corresponding relationships
Select the check box, if you want to add the Service Exchange to corresponding relationships existing in other related diagrams.
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Producing and Consuming Service Functions specification (optional)
This step is designed to specify Producing and Consuming Service Functions for the created or selected Service Exchange. Service Exchanges are produced and consumed by Service Functions acting under the Services.
Warning
There should always be a pair of functions: one to produce and the other to consume information flow.