How to link Organization Units and Entities in Oracle Designer 9i 9.0.2.8 ?

Question

Hi,
I am working with Oracle Designer in a project where we need to asses the Business Process Model of the customer, mapping it in Oracle Designer.
The Customer wants to see the relationship between Business Entity and Organization Units and Processes.
We are following this approach:
- define Entity
- define Organization Unit
- draw process models with Oracle Designer Process Modeler, defining the single process steps and indicating the Organization Unit who performs that activity;
- draw a Data Flow Diagram for each Entity with Oracle Designer Data Flow Diagrammer, including the business function we have defined as process steps within the Process Modeler.
Process Modeler allows us to link process steps to Organization Units, while Data Flow Diagrammer links Entity to business functions ( which are equal to our process steps). So we expect that for the "transitive properties" Organization Units should be linked automatically to Entity.
At the end, using Oracle Designer Matrix Diagrammer we only see the relationship between Business Functions and Entity and not the one between Organization Unit and Entity .
In fact, if we open Object Repository Navigator and check the property "Business Unit Entity Usage" of the Business Unit, there is no evidence of the entity related to the business function performed by the Organization/Business Unit.
Could someone helps us to understand how to use correctly the Oracle Designer Tools ?
We look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Flavia Ercoli & Rodrigo Silveira

Answer 1

I would recommend the 10g version anyday over the previous versions. If you use any of the other supporting apps (forms, reports, portal....) your already at a much better release :)
Is there a reason you would want to use the prior version?