What are templates?

Using the Template Wizard in ARIS Architect, administrators can create templates to enhance your models with individual graphic designs. Use a template to specify the graphic properties of object symbols and connections. For symbols, you can change the size, color and shading as well as the line color, weight, and style. For connections, you can change the color, style, arrow heads and line weight. You can also specify which attribute is displayed where on a connection or symbol and in which font format.

You can assign templates to any model or to any model type. ARIS uses the settings of the assigned template to display the models. To assign templates to models, users need the Write access privilege for the group containing the models. When templates are assigned, the text is displayed using the font defined in the font format that is used in the template. Template settings overrule database-related settings, such as individual font formats.

Templates are contained in the configuration. There is one configuration for each tenant, and its content can be used by all related databases.

Only the configuration administrator is authorized to create, edit, export or import templates.

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What are templates for?