Design Studio supports three types of Activation cartridge projects:
Activation Network cartridge projects
See "About Activation Network Cartridge Projects" for more information.
Activation Service cartridge projects
See "About Activation Service Cartridge Projects" for more information.
Activation SRT cartridge projects
See "Creating ASAP SRT Cartridge Projects" for more information.
Additionally, an Environment perspective is required for deployment of all Activation cartridge projects.
You can create Activation Network cartridge projects in Design Studio to support a single type of network equipment (for example, for a DMS-100 switch), or you can import existing cartridge projects into Design Studio and modify those projects. You configure Activation Network cartridge projects for a single vendor, technology, and software load. You can create Activation Network cartridge projects and subsequently deliver them to solution teams, who can use the Activation Network cartridge project components to create customer-specific service models.
Creating New Activation Cartridge Projects
You develop Activation Service cartridge projects to create a service model that can activate services on different types of network equipment. Activation Service cartridge projects include service actions and atomic actions that lack one or more of the vendor, technology and software load tokens. Modelers can use elements of Activation Network cartridge projects in Activation Service cartridge projects for implementation when creating common service models.
You can purchase and import Activation Network cartridge projects when building one or more Activation Service cartridge projects that link down into components within network cartridge projects and that are specific to an offered service. Service cartridge projects incorporate the many different types of equipment used to set up and provide telephony services.
You can use Activation Service cartridge projects to create customer-specific service models. These cartridge projects can contain customer-specific service modeling elements and links to elements in other cartridge projects. While an Activation Network cartridge project always has the three associated attributes (a vendor, such as Ericsson; a technology, such as DMS; and a software load, which references the release number), an Activation Service cartridge project does not necessarily contain all these attributes. Activation Service cartridge projects have elements that generally span multiple types of vendor equipment, can run multiple software loads, and may or may not include one or more of the Activation Network cartridge project attributes.
When creating an Activation Service cartridge project, there are two required attributes that you must specify: a service attribute (for example, Prepaid) and a Domain attribute (for example, Mobile).
Creating New Activation Cartridge Projects
When legacy cartridge projects, developed using earlier Design Studio versions, are imported into Design Studio or when the workbench is loaded, the projects are upgraded to the new project format. The new project format is incompatible with earlier Design Studio for Activation versions. The conversion is one-way using the Design Studio Platform's Project Upgrade wizard. See Design Studio Installation Guide for more information.
Design Studio's project upgrade logic is responsible for identifying and orchestrating the conversion of interdependent projects. Where several projects with interdependencies need to be converted, the Design Studio Platform upgrade logic performs the conversion in a correct order. For example, an SRT project that depends on an Activation Service project, which depends on an Activation Network project, will first convert the Activation Network project, then the Activation Service project then the SRT project.