Information Views are used to capture the particular views of an Information Concept that exist within the business. This tutorial describes how Information Views are captured in Essential Architecture Manager.

In each Information View you can capture the specific attributes that the view has, e.g. to model the difference between two views. However, you do not have to capture the attributes for each Information View if this level of detail is not important for your architecture initiatives. You can always add them later.

Examples include:

• Customer::Customer Services View
• Customer::Marketing View
• Customer::Warehouse View
• Product::Marketing View
• Product::SKU
• Client Risk::Compliance View
• Client Risk::Marketing View

Creating an Information View

Once you have identified the various different Views of a Concept that you need to capture, you can enter the information into Essential Architecture Manager.  Navigate to the Information Logical Layer in the Information Layer and highlight Information View.  Click on the Create Instance button  to create a new view.

You need to give the View a name - in the 'View Name' field - that succinctly describes the particular view of the Concept, e.g. Marketing View. Essential Architecture Manager will then create the fully-qualified name, Customer::Marketing View for you in the 'name' field.

To do this click on the Add Instance button  in the Refinement of Information Concept box, which is highlighted in red and select the concept that the view describes.  Once you have done this type the name of the View in the View label box.  When you move away from this box you will see that the View has been named.

Once you have completed these, complete as much detail in the form as you can at this time.

Remember to use the Add Instance button  if you have already created the artefact and are adding a usage of it.  Only use the Create Instance button  if you are adding a new artefact.