Frame of reference · The entry points · Element

The situations

The circumstances that start a search.

The part

What it is

Described as events rather than as needs: the audit is coming, the person who did this left, the volume doubled, something broke.

They are findable by asking recent customers what was happening when they started looking.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.