Use templates

Using the Template Wizard in ARIS Architect, administrators can create (Create templates, Use templates) templates to enhance your models with individual graphic designs. Use a template to specify the graphic properties of object symbols and connections. For symbols, you can change the size, color and shading as well as the line color, weight, and style. For connections, you can change the color, style, arrow heads and line weight. You can also specify which attribute is displayed where on a connection or symbol and in which font format.

You can assign templates to any model or to any model type. ARIS uses the settings of the assigned template to display the models. To assign templates to models, users need the Write access privilege for the group containing the models. When templates are assigned, the text is displayed using the font defined in the font format that is used in the template. Template settings overrule database-related settings, such as individual font formats.

You can manage templates in ARIS Architect (for detailed information, see ARIS Architect online help).

Use templates to specify the graphic properties of models, object symbols, and connections.

Use templates to specify the graphic properties of models, object symbols, and connections.

Model templates contain basic settings that change the appearance and attribute placements of models and contained items all at once. This enables you to apply settings defined once to all relevant models. Using the templates supplied or those you create yourself will enable you to easily customize your models according to your requirements.

Configuration administrators can create templates and assign templates to a model type. If a model of this type is created or imported from ARIS Express, the applied template is used automatically.

Users can assign templates to models. When users assign templates to models, the settings made in the templates overrule all default settings for models and contained elements as well as database-related settings, such as font formats. All new objects and connections added to such models appear like defined in the template that was assigned last. When settings were changed for individual object definitions, these settings remain even if templates are applied.

Moreover, you can assign multiple templates to models. This means that you can assign a template to a model to change the size of objects, for example, and another that places the required attributes above the objects. Both changes take effect. Assigning multiple templates is possible for existing objects only. If you create new objects, only the template you assigned last will be applied to them.