Leveraging Existing Data Information

To increase modeling efficiency, Design Studio enables you to create new data elements that obtain attributes from other data elements. In Design Studio, this is called deriving from a base type element, where the new element automatically obtains the information in the base element.

Leveraging information already defined for base types enables you to define attributes once, share the common attributes among multiple entities, and edit those entities in a single location. Changes that you make to a base type automatically cascade to all entities that derive from that base type.

See "Deriving from Base Type Elements" for more information. See Design Studio Concepts for more information about leveraging information defined for existing data elements.