2 Working with Specifications
Many entities in Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM) are defined by specifications, which you create in Oracle Communications Design Studio. There are different types of specifications for different types of entities. For example, UIM includes specifications for telephone numbers, networks, physical devices, and inventory groups.
Specifications provide a way to classify entities and augment them with additional properties, called characteristics. For example, you can create a Service specification to define a DSL service and associate characteristics to the specification for the properties that you want to capture on DSL services at run time.
In addition, you can associate rulesets and extension points to specifications to extend or customize the run-time behavior of entities created from the specifications. See "Working with Rulesets and Extension Points" for more information.
You can relate specifications to other specifications to affect behavior in UIM. For example, you can relate Inventory Group specifications to Telephone Number specifications to limit the types of inventory groups in which a telephone number can be included.
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The procedures for working with specifications assume that you are working in the Studio Design perspective.
When working with specifications, see the following topics: