Advanced Model Management

This section describes operations that apply to the general aspects of models.

Creating a new model

1. Navigate to Models Management and click New on the left sidebar.

2. In the New Model dialog, enter a name for your model.
   

   Note: Enter a unique name for the model (names cannot be duplicated)

3. Decide whether you want to create from scratch or create from an existing model.
   • Create from scratch: Select this option and click Create model.
   • Create from an existing model: Select this option and complete the required steps:
     • Select an existing model from the Create from dropdown.
     • Model version, select a version available from the dropdown, the current version, the last published version, or the last published Kiuwan default model.
     • In the Select Languages dropdown, select all the languages you want to include. All configurations and rules for all the selected languages will be copied.
       
4. Click Create Model.

Publishing a model

Typically, if our software is developed by third parties, at some point, "we freeze" our model to provide it to them, so they can study and apply it. The action of publishing a model is made using the Publish button on the top right of the screen.

1. On the top right corner, click Publish.
   

2. In the Publish Model dialog, the following fields are available:
   

   Name	Description
   Publication tag	A literal, or "tag", to facilitate the configuration management tasks and versioning of project artifacts.
   New technologies	The automatically generated weights for the new languages added (if exist), with the possibility to change the value.
   Mandatory rules	The list of mandatory rules that will be automatically added to the model (if necessary)
   Related rules	The list of related rules that you should check before publishing (incompatibilities, generalizations, and deprecations).
   Mandatory metrics	The list of mandatory metrics that will be automatically added to the model (if necessary).