Run ad hoc analysis automatically

You can analyze interrelationships between database items automatically. Even if you don't know the database you can find all of the related items as simply as putting together a route in your route planner.

Procedure

  1. Start the analysis.
  2. Click Ad hoc analysis Ad hoc analysis in the bar panel if the Ad hoc analysis bar is not activated yet.
  3. Activate the Automatic tab in the Ad hoc analysis bar. The database item you started the analysis for is entered in the Start box. It is displayed as the start item in the analysis path.
  4. Enter the name of the end point in the Target box. All database items that correspond with your input are displayed during input. You can also select object or model types. If you click Filter target Filter you can restrict the number of target items.
  5. Click on a database item, a model, object or symbol type in the list.

    Irrespective of whether you enter a name or click a found item the analysis is started and displayed graphically. All items are displayed independent of their type. Only the start item and target items are marked.

    You receive information about individual items when you move the mouse over a step or select a step and click Properties Properties or Attributes Attributes in the Start tab bar. This way you can also show and edit attributes and adjust the object appearance. You can navigate via the properties to for example, the models in which objects occur.

  6. You can specify the analysis in more detail by adding further intermediate steps.
  7. Click Add Add intermediate step in the Intermediate steps box, or click Add step Add intermediate step in the Start tab bar. By default, Any is entered. This means that all of the existing analysis items are considered unfiltered.

    Because the scope of the analysis was enlarged by one step due to the intermediate step the slider in the Target box is automatically moved one step to the right.

  8. Enter the name of the step by overwriting the entry Any and click the relevant analysis item in the generated list. You can also select object or model types. If you click Filter intermediate step Filter you can restrict the number of steps.

The analysis is refined and the result displayed graphically.

With the list of results you can navigate in the results in order to hide or filter irrelevant analysis items. You can add complete analysis paths to each analysis item or supplement the analysis step by step.

You can output the analysis as a graphic or in a table for presentations. You can copy (Ctrl+C) contents from the output and paste (Ctrl+V) it into ARIS models or tables, for example.

After you have saved the analysis, users authorized for managing analyses can for example, make it available to other users.