Adding Associations in the Publisher

This feature integrates Governance Registry associations into the Governance Center. Follow the steps below to add an association to a resource using the Publisher.

Log in to the Publisher using admin/admin credentials and the following URL: https://localhost:9443/publisher
Click on the corresponding Asset type, and then click on the artifact from which you want to add the association as shown in the example below.
Click the ASSOCIATIONS button in the top menu of the screen.
Select the association type as shown below. For instructions on adding association types, see Managing Dependencies and Associations.
Select the asset to which you want to add the association as shown below.
Click the ADD button. You vie the new association added to the list of available associations as shown below.
Click OVERVIEW in the top menu, and then click the Show Dependency button. You view the graphical representation of all the associations of the corresponding artifact including the new one as shown below.

Configuring restrictions on creating associations

Administrators can restrict assets that can be associated with certain other assets through changing following configurations accordingly in the <GREG_HOME>/repository/conf/governance.xml association configuration file.

Add the values you defined as short name in the RXT file of the artifact, within the association type elements when adding the artifact. You can define new association types within the default, restservice, and soapservice elements. Default association type denotes all other artifact types except SOAP and REST Services.

 <AssociationConfig>
    <Association type="default">
        <security>policy</security>
        <ownedBy>soapservice,restservice,wsdl</ownedBy>
        <usedBy>soapservice,restservice,wsdl</usedBy>
        <dependancies>soapservice,restservice,wsdl</dependancies>
    </Association>
    <Association type="restservice">
        <security>policy</security>
        <ownedBy>restservice,soapservice,wsdl</ownedBy>
        <usedBy>restservice,soapservice,wsdl</usedBy>
        <dependancies>restservice,soapservice,wsdl,endpoint</dependancies>
    </Association>
    <Association type="soapservice">
        <security>policy</security>
        <ownedBy>soapservice,restservice,wsdl</ownedBy>
        <usedBy>soapservice,restservice,wsdl</usedBy>
        <dependancies>soapservice,restservice,wsdl,endpoint</dependancies>
    </Association>
</AssociationConfig>