Tutorial: Create Reusable Method Content

Exercise: Extend a Work Product

The goal of this exercise is to extend a base method work product using extends variability.

  1. Switch to the Authoring perspective.

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  2. Create a new Work Product in the Extends Test Content Package called "my_extends_rup_navmap" with the presentation name "Extends RUP Navmap".

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  3. In the Variability Type select extends and choose the base Work Product rup_navmap.

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  4. Add a Brief Description : Extends Navmap Brief Description.

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  5. Save and then switch to the Browsing perspective.

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  6. In the Configuration View select the Extends RUP Navmap work product in the Uncategorized Folder under Domains. You will see in the HTML page that content entered in the extending artifact has replaced the content in the base artifact, whereas content not provided has been inherited from the base artifact.

 

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