Named Properties
Named properties are types of attributes that you will use to define your type's property list (legal attributes). A named property has a unique name and an Archi property type. An example would be the named property
"First Name" which might be of type "String". This would allow the property to hold text and punctuation.
Named properties can be reused in the definition of many types. For example, I could define Age just once but use it in the definition of both the Person and Application System types. Names should be descriptive, but brief,
since they will appear in many browsers and forms. Do not use arcane codes for the names - Archi will assign a unique ID for each named property anyway.
You can think of the named property list as a data dictionary containing elements that you may wish to use in constructing types.
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