To open the Realized Resource Exchange wizard

  • On the diagram pane, select the relationship (e.g. Association) and on the smart manipulator toolbar, click New Resource Exchange.
  • On the diagram palette, click Resource Exchange and on the diagram pane, connect the needed Resources.
  • In the table toolbar, click the Add New button.
  • In the  matrix, right-click the intersection in the matrix and select Add New Resource Exchange.


The Realized Resource Exchange wizard consists of three steps:

Resource Exchange creation (mandatory)

This step is designed to create a new Resource Exchange by specifying a conveyed Resource Exchange Item, both sending and receiving Resources, and a direction of a Resource Exchange. Depending on a fact, if selected Resources are known or not, requested information differs:

  • If sending and receiving Resources are unknown from the wizard invocation context, you need to specify both.

  • If sending and receiving Resources are known, they are added to a Realized Resource Exchange wizard automatically.

BoxDescription
Exchange Kind

 Shows the type of exchanged Resources:

  • Resource Communication.
  • Resource Movement.
  • Resource Energy Flow.
  • Geo Political Extent Exchange.
Conveyed Item

One or more Resource Exchange Items that are conveyed by the information flow from the sending Resource to receiving Resource.

Exchange KindConveyed Item
Geo Political Extent Exchange
  • Geo Political Extent Type
Resource Communication
  • Data Element
  • Resource Signal
Resource Energy Flow
  • Natural Resource
Resource Movement
  • Security Enclave
  • Resource Mitigation
  • Capability Configuration
  • System
  • Resource Architecture
  • Natural Resource
  • Technology
  • Software
  • Resource Artifact
  • Project
  • Responsibility
  • Person
  • Post
  • Organization
  • Known Resource
Resource Exchange

Resource Exchange that specifies an information flow for specified Conveyed Items.

If you select an existing Resource Exchange from the drop-down list, Conveyed Item box and Direction drop-down list will be filled with corresponding information automatically. You will be able to edit values of Conveyed Items.

The direction of the information flow won’t be editable.

Available if sending and receiving Resources are known from the wizard invocation context.

Resource Exchange TypeSending and Receiving  Resources
Command
  • Organization
  • Person
  • Post
  • Responsibility
Control
  • Natural Resource
  • Organizational Resource
  • Resource Artifact:
    • Capability Configuration
    • Resource Mitigation
    • Security Enclave
    • System
Resource Exchange
  • Physical Resource
  • Resource Architecture
  • Known Resource
Sending Resource

Resource that sends the specified conveyed information.

Available if a Resource is unknown from the wizard invocation context.

Receiving Resource

 Resource that receives the specified conveyed information.

Available if a Resource is unknown from the wizard invocation context.

 Direction

 Direction of the information flow.
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 is changed accordingly.

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 is the same element and direction could not be specified.

Add Resource Exchange to corresponding relationships

Select the check box if you want to add the Resource Exchange to the corresponding relationships with the same sending and receiving Resources at their ends as defined in the first step of the wizard.


Producing and Consuming Functions editing

This step is designed to review Producing and Consuming Functions for the created or selected Resource Exchange. Resource Exchanges are produced and consumed by Activities performed by the Resource. You can remove the realization between listed Service Function pairs.

Specifying Producing and Consuming Functions in Realized Resource Exchange wizard

Affected diagram reviewing and updating

In this step, you can see the list of diagrams where the selected Resource Exchange can be realized and displayed. You can choose one or more diagrams you want the specified exchange to be displayed. If the diagrams are grayed out, this means there are no Conveyed Items of the selected Resource Exchange to be displayed. 

The Project option Show Item Flows on Affected Diagrams controls how the diagrams will be updated for newly created or modified exchanges. Set the option to true to update all affected diagrams and show the Conveyed Items of Resource Exchanges whenever a new exchange is created or an existing one is modified.


To learn more about previewing affected diagrams, see Preview Affected Diagrams dialog.


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