Before you modify the asset types in the sample SOA model, browse the list of asset types that were imported in this sample to evaluate the different types that are shipped with the application. Also, notice that the asset types are listed in alphabetical order. Asset-based development strategists for Rational® Asset Manager advise administrators to name their asset types carefully so that similar asset types are listed as close to each other as possible. One repository can have hundreds of asset types; keeping asset types grouped closely by department or project helps users find the best asset type quickly.
If you are concerned that the number of asset types across your repository may become unwieldy for users or administrators to manage, you could also create a limited number of asset types and use lifecycles and communities to enforce restrictions on assets. For more information, see Policies for lifecycles in Rational Asset Manager.
You can use the asset types that are listed in the sample SOA model as a guide to creating new asset types for your repository. In this lesson, list and modify the asset types for the policy and process assets that will be submitted to the Repository Configuration community and browsed by all signed-in users in the repository.
To open and duplicate the Architecture and Case for Change asset types in the sample SOA Model repository: