## Exercise 8: Create New Standard Category

The purpose of this exercise is to understand and use Standard Categories. In practice, this will not be done very often, as Standard Categories tend to be relatively stable. Also, if you are creating a plug-in that extends RUP, you should attempt to use the RUP Standard Categories before creating new ones.

Standard Categories provide a means to categorize core method content in line with best practices for creating structured methods. In order to encourage good method structure we provide standard categories for grouping Tasks into Disciplines , Work Products into Domains , Roles into Role Sets , and Tool-Mentors into Tools . Unlike Custom Categories , Standard Categories by definition are linked with a specific method content type – e.g. Role Sets with Roles, Disciplines with Tasks, and Domains with Work Products.

1. Click My Plugin > Method Content > Standard Categories.

2. Create a new Role Set named my_design with a presentation name of My Design.

3. Add the role my_rup_user_interface_designer to the my_design Role Set.

> There are two ways you can do this:

> > • In the Standard Category editor for my_design, open the Roles tab, and add the role to the roleset.

> > • In the Role editor for my_rup_user_interface_designer, open the Categories tab and add the my_design category as a Selected Roleset.

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