About Activation Service 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).