Creating impact analysis configurations

Before you can perform an impact analysis on the designs in your project area, you must first create an impact analysis configuration.

Before you begin

You must be logged in to the product and have a project dashboard open.

About this task

Impact analysis diagrams are driven by impact analysis configurations. Configurations can limit the linked artifacts that are included in an impact analysis diagram. For example, a configuration can specify the following limitations:

Procedure

  1. On the project dashboard, in the Analysis menu, click Create > Impact Analysis Configuration.
  2. Optional: In the editor, click in the title field and type a name for the new configuration.
  3. Optional: On the General tab, enter a description of the impact analysis configuration.
  4. To specify the depth of the impact analysis, complete the following steps:
    1. To include artifacts that are upstream from the target artifact, specify the number of levels to check or select the Unlimited check box.
    2. To include artifacts that are downstream from the target artifact, specify the number of levels to check or select the Unlimited check box.
    By default, both Unlimited check boxes are selected, which means that all links lead to and from the target artifact will be included in an impact analysis.
  5. On the Filters tab, define the filters to apply to the impact analysis configuration.
    1. To exclude the artifact types and list types specified in the corresponding sections, select the Ignore selected artifacts and links check box. To include only the artifact types and link types listed, clear the Ignore selected artifacts and links check box.
    2. To limit the impact analysis to specific types of artifacts, in the Filtered Artifacts section, click the Add icon.
    3. In the Add Filter (Artifact) window, select a domain and a value from the respective lists and click Add. The new filter is displayed in the Artifact Type list.
    4. To limit the impact analysis to specific types of links, in the Filtered Links section, click the Add icon.
    5. In the Add Filter (Link) window, select a domain and a value from the respective lists and click Add. The new filter is displayed in the Link Type list.
  6. On the Project Linking tab, in the Cross Domain Links list, select the types of links to include in the impact analysis.
  7. Click Save. The new impact analysis configuration is included in the list of available configurations.

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