Connect database with Alfabet system

You can connect any ARIS database with an Alfabet system.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Using the Explorer tab, log in to the database.
  2. Click Properties Properties. The dialog opens.
  3. In the Selection tab, click Alfabet integration.
  4. Enable Connect to Alfabet.
  5. In the Web service URL field, enter the Uniform Resource Locator to be used for access to the Alfabet Web service (Alfabet RESTful API). This URL is required for exchanging data. This is the address of the Alfabet Web application. Specification of the API version, for example, api/v1, is not required.
  6. In the User interface URL field, enter the Uniform Resource Locator to be used for access to the Alfabet user interface. This URL is required to enable users to navigate to Alfabet objects from ARIS.
  7. In the User name (optional) and the API password/token fields, specify the user credentials as required.

    The user name is not entered by default. This anonymous access grants all users read and write access to all Alfabet objects. If you enter a user name, only this user has access to the Alfabet objects according to the privileges provided.

    Further information about the token and authorization can be found in the Alfabet Interface for RESTful Web Services manual, which you can download from Empower.

  8. For security reasons use Alfabet RESTful API v2. Therefore, do not activate Use 'Alfabet REST API v1'.

    If you still use this unsecure version, make sure to switch to Alfabet RESTful API v2 as soon as possible.

  9. Click Test connection to validate the specified values. If all values are valid, the connection is established.
  10. Click OK to close the dialogs.

You can map ARIS objects to Alfabet objects.