What are rule types and profiles?

General conventions are often used for modeling with ARIS. These rules should be followed in order to create models that are logical, consistent and meaningful. The Semantic Check Wizard uses these rules to help you check your models and objects.

ARIS provides you with all the fundamental rules. You can also specify your own conventions for modeling. Define rules and use them to check your models.

Profiles

Select a profile to run a semantic check. You manage rules for the semantic check in profiles. You can combine several rules of one particular rule type or rules of different rule types in a profile. For example, profiles can combine rules that are only applicable to specific model or object types. The existing rules in ARIS are all assigned to specific profiles.

Individual rules can occur in various profiles.

If you start semantic check profiles containing rules for objects and models for groups, you can evaluate all objects/models of the group and its subgroups.

Rule types

The individual rules are assigned to fundamental rule types.

When you create a profile select the relevant rules from these rule types. The six rule types can be divided into two groups. One group includes the predefined rule types whose rules you can create, extend or modify only if you have programming knowledge. The other group includes extendable rule types whose rules you can extend or modify without having programming knowledge.

Predefined rule types

Extendable rule types

See also

What is a semantic check?

What is a report?

What is a macro?