# Sirius Specifier Manual

This document describes how to create your own designers using Sirius. To learn how to use existing designers, refer to the Sirius User Manual .

You will find the following sections:

- Viewpoints gives a general overview of what viewpoints are and how they are specified, tested and deployed.
- The next sections are specific to a kind of representation supported by Sirius:
  - Diagrams describes how to specify general graphical modelers.
  - Sequence Diagrams are a special case of diagram with many peculiarities and specific kinds of tools, which are detailed here.
  - Tables covers how to specify both edition tables and matrix-like cross-tables.
  - Trees shows how to create tree-like modelers for a hierarchical view of data.
  - Properties View shows how to define custom properties views for your modelers.
  - Workflows ( EXPERIMENTAL) shows how to define in the aird editor a custom workflow improving usability of your modeling environment.
- Model Operations describes the small language which can be used throughout Viewpoint Specification Models to describe behavior (for example for tools).
- Colors explains how colors can be specified for all kinds of representations.
- Queries and Interpreted Expressions explains the general rules to follow to write the expressions used inside Viewpoint Specification Models , and the various languages supported.

For more information on Sirius, please refer to the Sirius User Manual , which describes how end-users can use the designers you created.

In addition to this documentation, see also the main project site: and the top-level wiki page.