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Enable the Structurally relevant item check box to define structurally relevant fragments of the source pattern. These are items that are important for the process flow and represent the framework of the process. For example, for an EPC these would be functions.

Enable the Consider at definition level check box if an object that only exists at the definition level and does not have any occurrences in a model is to be included.

Enable the Placeholder check box to model an indefinite expression, for example, for which all items modeled in a particular area are considered.

There may be cases in which additional objects exist in a source pattern that are not necessarily required for the specific model transformation. Enable the Optional object check box to exclude these objects from the assessment of whether a source pattern can be mapped to a target pattern.

Enable the Relationship-building item check box to include structures required for a model transformation that are not directly linked to the source model but are important at the definition level for the transformation.

Select the object factor. For example, a function in an EPC can be linked to two organizational units, one of which is an auxiliary object.

Factors can also be used if a variable number of objects in the source pattern are to be mapped to the same object in the target pattern. You can include any number of objects of this type or a particular number. In this case, you can specify the number of objects.

Enable the Hierarchy level check box to clearly define the highest connection in the hierarchy for the first object in a source pattern with multiple outgoing connections. If this structure is a section of the process that is run through recursively (for example, a loop), you must define the hierarchy level for all objects within the structure, starting with 1 for the highest level.

Activates the function based on which the selected object is ignored when a line of the profile is evaluated. You can enable this option only in the source.

You may have a situation where two patterns can be applied to a set of objects, but they are also linked by an OR rule in the profile. In such a case, only the first pattern would be used because it takes priority over the second. To avoid this behavior, the setting 'Ignore during profile evaluation' can be enabled for certain objects, so that both patterns can still be used.

Enable the Consider symbol check box to limit the match process for a model transformation not just to a specific object type, but to a particular symbol of this object type.

Enable the Consider object check box to limit the match process for a model transformation to a single object type. This option is enabled by default.

If it does not matter which object type is used in the target, you can enable the setting Do not consider object types. This automatically disables the setting Consider symbol. If, in specific cases, you still want to work with this setting, you can define them in the conditions pertaining to the relevant object.

Add alternative types. To do this, click Add. Click Remove to remove them.

Sometimes, patterns in a model transformation only differ in terms of the object types used. The use of alternative types enables you to combine several source patterns in a single pattern in this case.

Enable the Add check box to add alternative types.

Select the alternative types you want to remove, and click Remove.

Select adjacent objects by holding down the Shift key and clicking the first and last object. You can select objects that are not adjacent by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking the relevant objects. You can extend or reduce your selection using the arrow keys.

More than one target model can be generated in a model transformation. To ensure that these are not all arranged under a single group, a path can be specified here to a subgroup that already exists or will be created by the transformation.

You can specify absolute and relative paths. When entering relative paths, you have the following options:

./ - relative path to the path that was selected as the target path when running the model transformation, or

/ - absolute path

If you disable Generate target model, definitions for objects and connections in the target pattern are generated during the model transformation, but not the model and the corresponding occurrences.