Create model types

You can create your own ARIS model types. A model type must contain at least one symbol.

Prerequisite

You are a configuration administrator for this tenant.

Procedure

  1. In ARIS Architect, click ARIS > Show Administration Administration. The Administration tab opens.

  2. Click Navigation Navigation in the bar panel if the Navigation bar is not activated yet.

  3. In the navigation, click Configuration Configuration > Method Method.

  4. Click Method Model types.

  5. Click New New > Model Model type in the Start tab bar. The wizard opens.

  6. Specify the relevant settings and click Finish.

The model type is created and can be used in filters.

To have access to user-defined method extensions for modeling, users must log out of all databases. The method extensions must be assigned to individual items and to a filter. Users logging in based on this filter can use these method extensions when modeling. You can make method extensions available to databases on another tenant by exporting method filters and transferring the method extensions during the subsequent filter import.

No method help (Ctrl+F1) is available for user-defined types.

To be able to continue using user attributes from previous versions you must import the previous filters that contain all user attributes of the database. These user attributes are created and thus become visible only due to the filter import. Please restore the database of the previous version on your current tenant after the import.

See also

How can user-defined method items in scripts be called?