Working with Involvement Specifications

Involvement specifications enable you to define associations between entities for relationships that are not currently supported in UIM. The Involvement specifications that you create enable you to capture characteristics on the relationship and to specify the roles played by the entities participating in the involvement. In order to give the relationship behaviors, you must use rulesets and extension points.

For example, you can use involvements to establish associations involving custom objects. See "Working with Custom Object Specifications" for information about custom objects. By definition, custom objects have no implicit relationships with other entities, so you can use involvements to associate them to other entities.

Two resources can be preconfigured using the PreconfigureSpec Involvement specification (provided by Oracle). Preconfigured resources share the same life cycle in that when one of the resources is reserved or assigned to a service or resource, the other is automatically reserved or assigned with it. This behavior applies only to involvements created using the PreconfigureSpec specification. This specification does not appear in Oracle Communications Design Studio; rather, it is installed in UIM as base data.

You create and configure an Involvement specification in the same way that you do most other types of specifications. See "Working with Specifications" for more information.

When working with Involvement specifications, see "Involvement Specification Editor" for more information.