Values - CustomCamera with customised Sensor with pixels - IBD

For the rest of this trail the overiding values will be called Context-Specific Values, but the compartment will (unless it is hopefully changed in the future) nevertheless still be referred to here as the SysML initialValues compartment.

In the example here it shows that pixels has value 10.0 MP in the context of CustomCamera.

[For comparison here the SysML :values compartment is also shown, just for comparison so we can see the overridden default; one would not usually show that compartment.]

The example so far showed one level of re-configuration (which required one instance to carry override values). We examine next how to achieve "deep" re-configuration.

Up next

Values - SmartPhone with 2 PhoneCameras - BDD

Notes

[ASSERTION, NAMING, WARNING] The SysML block compartment name 'initialValues' for what are really "context-specific values" is confusing - even completely misleading; please just think of them as 'contextValues' (and initial values as a special context case)

[DISPLAY, FEATURE, TIP, TOOL] MagicDraw/Cameo: To show the type of initialValues (context-specific values) use the display option Show Slot Type

Snippets (quotes/extracts)

[SysML-1.6] A compartment with a label of “initialValues” may be used to show values of properties belonging to a containing block. These values override any default values that may have been previously specified on these properties on their originally defining block

[SysML-1.6] Initial value compartments may be specified within nested properties, which then apply only in the particular usage context defined by the outermost containing block.