Viewpoints

A viewpoint is a concept used by DevOps Model RealTime to support different workflows and ways of working with the tool. A viewpoint encapsulates the following:

• Product capabilities that can be enabled or disabled, to streamline the Model RealTime user interface for the workflow that is supported by the viewpoint.
• A filter for certain views (primarily the Project Explorer) to control the elements to show and how to show them.
• The language to use for code snippets in the model (primarily C++).

By relating all the concepts above to a single viewpoint concept, it becomes easy to quickly change between different workflows when using Model RealTime. You set the active viewpoint using this drop-down menu in the toolbar:

The default viewpoint in Model RealTime is "Capsule Development", which supports the workflow of designing capsule-based models to be transformed into real-time applications. Another viewpoint that is commonly used is the "Model" viewpoint, which is appropriate when you do more general purpose UML modeling. For the convenience of users that mostly work with the "Model" viewpoint and want it to be the default viewpoint on start-up, there is a command-line preference that can be set in eclipse.ini (after -vmargs):

-DRTE_Default_View_Point=Model

There is a preference page Modeling - Viewpoints that lets you customize the existing viewpoints or define your own new viewpoints in order to support alternative workflows that are not well supported by the predefined viewpoints.

Note: You cannot modify the predefined viewpoints (with one exception described here).