Filters are divided into method filters and evaluation filters and provide restricted and user-specific method contents. Filters are an effective way to support uniform modeling and accelerated evaluation. They make it possible to provide users with only the information and methods relevant to them. If you log in using a specific method filter and create a model, for example, only the model types relevant to your work are offered to you for selection.
Filters are contained in the configuration. There is one configuration for each ARIS Design Server, and its content can be used by all databases of the server. Further filters are created using the Filter Wizard. Only the configuration administrator is authorized to create, edit, export, or import filters. To have access to user-defined method extensions you must assign them to a filter. Users who log in with this filter can use the method extensions for modeling and evaluation.
Method filter
Subset of ARIS Method, which the configuration administrator can define for specific users, user groups or for a specific task. If you log in using a specific method filter and want to create a new model, only the relevant model types contained in that method filter are offered to you for selection. When modeling, all object, connection, and attribute types are available for the model type that are contained in the method filter. Thus, the content offered is exactly the content you need for performing your tasks. Method filters are an effective means of supporting uniform modeling and make it possible to provide users with only the information and methods relevant to them.
Evaluation filter
Filter that restricts the method contents. The method content is restricted to the content that is activated in both the method filter you used when logging in to the database and the evaluation filter you selected. The advantage of evaluation filters is that only relevant content is included in the case of comprehensive processes.