Create, edit, and maintain profiles in IBM Rhapsody more efficiently

Properties are key to how Rhapsody works but there are thousands of them. Profile Builder simplifies management of properties by:

• Property files import and export: Profile Builder can import property files into models and turn models into property files. No more manual copying & pasting text between property files.

• Generating property perspectives: Property perspectives in IBM Rhapsody are a kind of filter mechanism to help users understand available properties. Creating property perspectives manually is laborious and prone to error. Profile Builder can generate them.

• Generating conditional properties. These are very powerful and are the keystone of perspectives. They are very difficult to write by hand. Profile Builder allows them to be modeled and generated.

IBM Rhapsody allows the creation of customized "add new" menus for new terms, providing guidance to the modeler in adding elements to the model. However, these are long, complex comma separated lists. Profile builder allows them to be modeled using the already defined stereotypes, reducing typographical errors and speeding up the creation and modification of menus drastically.

Guide Me's in IBM Rhapsody are a means to provide embedded ‘cheat sheets’ providing lightweight guidance to users. They are written in a proprietary text based format, therefore tedious to write and prone to error. Profile builder allows you to define guide me's in a graphic modeling environment and generates the actual guide me files for you. 

Checklists are an improved html-based version of the Guide Me concept and can include advanced formatting, embedded media and so on, all modeled and automatically generated by Profile builder.

Profile builder for IBM Rhapsody allows the creation of a new profile from scratch but can also take over the maintenance of an existing one by reverse engineering its textual properties / files into a model, including:

• Helper files
• Property files
• Guide Mes
• Property perspectives
• "Add new" menus