Manage reports

Administrators can manage reports in the administration interface of exports.

Normally, you cannot use the report scripts provided with ARIS. Most of these reports are interactive and use methods that are not supported by ARIS Publisher. An error message appears when these reports are run. If you click Help > ARIS Script > Methods for reports and semantic checks in ARIS Architect and enter the search term This method is also available in Business Publisher Report, the search result returns all methods you can use in ARIS Publisher reports.

The report Show model graphics from group in Excel is available in exports by default.

What do you want to do?

Provide report

Prerequisite

You have exported report scripts and observed the following:

  • The reports only evaluate the contexts Database, Group, Model, or Object.

  • The reports do not call any dialogs.

  • The reports only require read access to items.

    If you use a report template to create the reports in design view, the prerequisites mentioned above are automatically met.

  • The reports only contain methods allowed for ARIS Publisher. The available methods are identified in the ARIS Script > Methods for reports and semantic checks help.

Procedure

  1. Log in as a system administrator or administrator. The export administration opens.

  2. In the Reports module, click Add.

  3. Click Browse, and select the report export file (*.arx) of the relevant report.

    Export files are created when you export a report script from ARIS Architect, for example. Reports provided here must meet the prerequisites.

  4. Click Upload.

Report name, description, and context are displayed in the table. Users can run newly added reports only after they log in again.

If you need additional evaluation scripts, you can create report output in the design view. If you are familiar with the JavaScript and ARIS Script programming languages, you can write your own report scripts or adapt copies of existing standard scripts.

ARIS is supplied with numerous standard scripts. We generally recommend documenting all changes to scripts externally so that the documentation can be used to ensure that they are incorporated correctly during the update process.

Reports/Macros/Report templates and files

Do not make any changes to the standard scripts we supply. Always adapt copies of report, macro, and JS files, and any other files. There are exceptions, for example, the file atsall<language code>.js.

When updating ARIS, all ARIS standard scripts and files are overwritten and customer-specific changes to these files are discarded. Copied scripts and files and those you have created yourself are not overwritten.

If you have changed files we supplied but not copied them, before the update (updatesystemdb) they must be exported and then imported after the update. This enables you to retain your adapted standard scripts from the previous version. However, in this case you do not receive any corrections or updates to the files we supplied.

Semantic checks

We recommend creating custom rule types and custom profiles for semantic checks, in which the ARIS standard rule types and rules are referenced.

This is not possible for configurable rule types (relationship attribute rules, model attribute rules, object attribute rules, existence rules, and allocation rules). If you have added rules to these rule types, you must export the rule types before the update and then import them after the update.

Delete report

Procedure

  1. Log in as a system administrator or administrator. The export administration opens.

  2. In the Reports module, click a report, and select Delete.

The report is deleted from the list and can no longer be run by users.