Create Method Content: Create a Work Product

The goal of this exercise is to create new method content. Specifically, you will create Work Products of the type Artifact. You can create any content but some examples are provided if you want to use them. These examples are referred to in other tutorials.

In general, new elements are created by right-clicking one the distination folder for the new element and selecting New. For example, if you wanted to create a new Role in a content package, you would right-click on the existing Roles folder in the tree navigator. highlight New and then click Role.

  1. Locate the Work Products icon under My Content Package in the library view.

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  2. Right-click on the Work Products icon and select New and then Artifact.

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    new work product menu

     

  3. In the Name field enter "my_navmap".

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  4. In the Presentation Name field enter "My Navigation Map"

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  5. In the Brief Description field, enter the following:

    The Navigation Map expresses the structure of the user-interface elements in the system, along with their potential navigation pathways.

  6. In the Purpose field, enter the following:

    There is one Navigation Map per system. The purpose of the Navigation Map is to express the principal user interface paths through the system. These are the main pathways through the screens of the system and not necessarily all of the possible paths. It can be thought of as a road map of the system's user interface. The Navigation Map makes it easy to see how many "clicks" it will take a user to get to a specific screen.

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    my work product settings

     

  7. Click the Preview tab to view the new Artifact.

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  8. Save the Artifact.

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  9. Repeat steps 2 through 9 using the following information:

     

 

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