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.