Properties

Access control is achieved through properties.

property: A property is a state (disabled, mandatory, frozen, hidden…) of a family or a variable. These properties change the usual behavior of a variable or family.

The properties can be defined permanently or according to the result of a calculation.

There are two main properties.

Hidden variable

A hidden variable is a variable whose value cannot be modified by the operator.

This could be an internal variable used by the integrator that is not supposed to change.

Or a variable that only makes sense in a particular context. Therefore, this variable can be hidden and then unhidden depending on the context.

A disabled variable is a variable that will not be accessible to any of the actors (integrator and operator).

This property is generally used dynamically to remove access to the variable depending on the context.

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