Open database

You can open a database you are known to with your user name and password.

If you log in with the user name system and password manager after installation, you will be provided with the entire functionality. If multiple users access your installation we recommend that you change the password for the user system. This way, you avoid that all users have complete access to your database with this default password.

Open a database to specify database settings, manage content, edit models, carry out analyses, or output content, for example.

Procedure

Non-versionable databases

  1. Click ARIS > Explorer Explorer.

  2. If the databases are not shown, click the arrow Open of the tenant.

  3. Click the arrow Openof the Database database you want to open. If you have already opened the database once, it is opened with the settings you made previously. If you open the database the first time, the Login Wizard opens.

  4. Click the Down arrow down arrow of the Filter box and select the relevant method filter.

  5. Click the Down arrow down arrow of the Language box and select the relevant database language.

  6. Click Finish.

Versionable databases

  1. Click ARIS > Explorer Explorer.

  2. If the databases are not shown, click the arrow Open of the tenant.

  3. Right-click the Versionable database versionable database you want to open.

  4. Click Log in with options. The Login Wizard opens.

  5. Click the Down arrow down arrow of the Filter box and select the relevant method filter.

  6. Click the Down arrow down arrow of the Language box and select the relevant database language.

  7. Click the Down arrow down arrow of the Versioning state box and select the relevant versioning state.

    Workspace: Indicates the database content that has not yet been versioned. It can be edited.
    Current version: Corresponds to the last versioned database content. This version includes the entire versioned content of a database. You have only read access to the content.
    Change list: Indicates a versioned database status that is assigned to a change list number.

  8. Enter the number of the existing change list you want to open or select a change list number using the Select button.

  9. Click Finish.

The version state of the selected database is opened. If the current version is opened, the database name in ARIS Explorer is extended by [head]. If a change list is opened, the database name is extended by the change list number.

Tip

To open the Version state Workspace of a versionable database that you have already opened, click the Open database arrow. It opens without prompting with the settings you made earlier, and the database name is not extended.

The database opens based on your settings.