You can use implicit connections for overlapping objects. Implicit connections are not displayed in the modeling area.
Prerequisite
You have enabled the Create implicit connections for overlapping objects check box (ARIS > Options, Selection tab, option Model > General > Objects).
Procedure
Place an object on another object, either completely or overlapping. The Create relationship dialog opens. The Connection occurrence check boxes of the existing connections are enabled. If you drag objects that are not yet linked via connections on top of one another, you cannot disable the setting for the Hide check box in the Create relationship dialog. This means that they will be hidden in any case. You can disable the setting once the objects and connection have been saved.
In the Connection occurrence column, enable the check boxes for the connections you want to create. These connections are created in the model and the check box of the Hide column enabled. They are hidden when you exit the Create relationship dialog by clicking OK. You can only specify for existing connections that they not be hidden, that is, that the connection occurrences also be displayed for overlapping objects. When you enable the Connection occurrence check box in order to create a new connection, the Hide check box is enabled and locked by default. It is locked because the connection does not yet exist. It is only created when you exit the dialog by clicking OK. From then on, you can also specify for the new connection that it be displayed for overlapping objects.
In the Hide column, enable the check boxes for the connections which are not to be displayed. These are created as implicit connections.
Click OK.
For the existing connections, for which the check boxes of the Hide column are enabled, no connections are displayed in the model (implicit connections). You can see that the connection exists on the Relationships tab of the object properties. If you drag an object from an object connected by implicit connections onto the model background, the implicit connections are converted into "normal" connections, that is, visually represented by their connection occurrence.