Viewpoint Specifier Manual

This document describes how to create your own designers using Viewpoint. To learn how to use existing designers, refer to the Viewpoint User Manual .

You will find the following sections:

• Specifying Viewpoints gives a general overview of what viewpoints are and how they are specified, tested and deployed.
• The next sections are specific to a kind of representation supported by Viewpoint:
  • Diagrams describes how to specify general graphical modelers.
  • Sequence Diagrams are a special case of diagram with many peculiarities and specific kinds of tools, which are detailed here.
  • Tables covers how to specify both edition tables and matrix-like cross-tables.
  • Trees shows how to create tree-like modelers for a hierarchical view of data.
• Model Operations describes the small language which can be used throughout Viewpoint Specification Models to describe behavior (for example for tools).
• Colors explains how colors can be specified for all kinds of representations.
• Writing Queries and Interpreted Expressions explains the general rules to follow to write the expressions used inside Viewpoint Specification Models , and the various languages supported.
• The Feature Matrix provides a cross-reference between most of the features of Viewpoint and concrete example usages of them in the Family example modeler.
• Best Practices (on the Obeo Network website) provides some hints on how best to create and organize your designer specifications.

For more information on Viewpoint, please refer to the Viewpoint User Manual , which describes how end-users can use the designers you created, and to the Viewpoint Developer Manual to learn how go even beyond that and extend the Viewpoint platform using the Java APIs.

In addition to the documentation included with the product, you see also the Obeo Designer group on Obeo Network where you will find:

• user forums;
• tutorials on several features of the product;
• presentations, demos and case studies;
• FAQs and a list of Best Practices.