RE: [plcs-dex] Dissenting voice: Templates are a waste of time.

["Rob Bodington" <rob.bodington@eurostep.com>]

HI Sean
I would say that the primary motivation behind the templates 
was to ensure/enforce consistent use of the PLCS model.
As Peter points out, one area where we want to enforce this is the 
use of reference data to provide the type of the assignment, so I 
would not necessarily agree with the statement "Templates are a waste of time"

Regards
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bergström [mailto:peter.bergstrom@eurostep.com]
> Sent: 02 November 2007 20:25
> To: Barker, Sean (UK); plcs-dex@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [plcs-dex] Dissenting voice: Templates are a waste of time.
> 
> In fact, that is NOT what all assigning_ templates does, look at
> assigning_identification, asg_org and asg_ref_data for instance.
> 
> However, you have a point for those templates that ARE similar to what you
> described. The reson they DO exist is that the role assignment is
> important and must not be exchanged with the use of the attribute "role"
> (or whatever the name is). Therefore, I think there IS a reason even for
> those very simple templates.
> 
> But maybe you could make your template a bit more functional if you added
> the Document_version and Document entities (at least) to it? Or maybe the
> Representing_document template?
> [The last paragraph said without remembering any details from the model,
> and without paying attention to any possible business needs, just as a
> tip...]
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barker, Sean (UK) [mailto:Sean.Barker@baesystems.com]
> Sent: den 2 november 2007 15:55
> To: plcs-dex@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [plcs-dex] Dissenting voice: Templates are a waste of time.
> 
> 
> I'm just writing a template for Task_method_version_assignment. Really,
> all it says is that you must classify the assignment to define the role.
> In fact, this is all any assignment template does, and, if we need a
> template at all, it could simply take the target entity and the select
> type pointed to as parameters. I therefore suggest we delete all the
> assigning_* templates and have a single assignment template.
> 
> Sean Barker
> 0117 302 8184
> 
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