Definitions and lineage · The lineage · Element
The impact
What depends on this source.
The part
What it is
The reverse view of lineage: which reports would be affected by a change to a source or a definition.
Without it, changes are made and their consequences discovered by whoever notices a number moved.
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.