Element - State Machine

Icon/Notation

 The state machine is shown as a rectangle.

Owner Hierarchy/Prerequisites

• A state machine is created as contents of a term definition.

• Each term definition can contain no more than one state machine.

• Each state machine can contain multiple regions.

• A state machine needs to have at least one region.

• The first region is created as contents with the state machine.

• The last region in the state machine cannot be deleted.

• The owner of a state machine can only be changed if the states contained in the machine are not used by data elements.