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- Mapping Authors can create, edit, or delete artifact types, mappings, and mapping groups. Mapping Users can use mappings during model transformation, compare, and synchronization operations but not create, edit, or delete mappings.
- Syndeia provides a Mapping license file that every Mapping Author should have available with the regular Syndeia license. Syndeia checks for this license file to identify Mapping Authors versus Mapping Users.
Defining Artifact Types
Syndeia's mapping capabilities are available from the Mappings tab in the Syndeia Dashboard, as shown below. In Syndeia, model elements from all repositories/tools are referred to as artifacts. Since mappings are defined between artifact types, we must first add (register) an artifact type from a given model / repository type to Syndeia. The LHS of the Mapping pane has two section: (1) Model Types, and (2) Mappings. The Model Types section lists the different types of models / repositories supported in Syndeia, such as DOORS-NG, Jama, JIRA, SysML, and Teamcenter. Right click on a model type and select the Add Artifact Type menu to add an artifact type from that model / repository type to Syndeia.
As an example,
Defining Mapping Groups and Mappings
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