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In order to understand how the CDW is different from the shared object technology, we must first understand how the shared object technology works to store and display information for published objects.

For details of how the published data is stored in separate domains and linked through the shared objects, refer to Authoring and Data Warehouse Overview. Those details can be summarized in the following:

  • Each design tool publishes documents from which the object data is loaded into domains that are specific just to that tool.

  • When a published object is created for the first time in the database, it is created in the tool's domain and a shared object is also created in the shared domain. The published object is linked to the shared object with a ComprisedOf relationship.

  • When this object is published by another tool, another object will be created in that tool's domain and is also related to the same shared object.

  • Only the name and description are stored on the shared object, which limits query mechanisms to simple find by name or ad hoc reports.

  • The information presented to the user is dynamically generated from the ComprisedOf objects in each of the publish domains, as summarized by the following diagram:

  • For properties shared across multiple tools, this dynamic generation presents the latest information to the user, with respect to the different objects published, and is known as the last in wins presentation. This data is presented after the query by name or ad hoc report. You cannot display these properties in list views for regular queries.

  • You can navigate from the shared objects to the published objects to view them in detail.

  • You can review the inconsistencies of the published data, either from the shared object, or from inconsistency reports.