You can connect any ARIS database with an Alfabet system.
Prerequisites
You have used the Perspective Wizard to activate the ARIS - Alfabet Interoperability subject, and have selected at least the Modeling working environment.
Your Administrator has configured the interface.
You have the Database management function privilege.
Procedure
Using the Explorer tab, log in to the database.
Click Properties. The dialog opens.
In the Selection tab, click Alfabet integration.
Enable Connect to Alfabet.
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.
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.
In the User name (optional) and the API password/token fields, specify the user credentials as required.
If the RESTful API of the Alfabet system is configured for anonymous access, you only need to enter the related token. If the RESTful API is configured to be accessed by a user, you must enter both the user name and the password.
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.
For security reasons use Alfabet RESTful API v2. However, if the interface is still configured for the use of Alfabet REST API v1, activate 'Alfabet REST API v1' (not recommended).
If you still use this insecure version, make sure to switch to Alfabet RESTful API v2 as soon as possible.
Click Test connection to validate the specified values. A dialog shows the test result.
If the test was successful, click OK to close the dialogs.
Log out of the database and lock in again so that the specified connection parameters are applied.
The database is connected to the Alfabet system.
You can map ARIS objects to Alfabet objects.