The error is reported during SAP® synchronization. A conflict occurred while checking consistency rules.
Error message
Element <name of element> was skipped because an object definition whose SAP ID is <SAP ID attribute value> exists more than once. The corresponding ARIS GUIDs are: <GUIDs>.
Cause
The SAP ID is unique in SAP® Solution Manager. It is automatically specified during data transfer to ARIS. Because you can manage different branches and scopes in an ARIS database, a database can contain more than one object definition with the same SAP ID. Synchronization-relevant SAP® items related to a branch and scope are therefore identified by the SAP ID attribute in combination with the value of the Synchronization project attribute. This value contains the IDs of the related branch and scope. If you create a definition copy of a synchronized object, this new ARIS object definition will have the same SAP ID as the source object. Synchronization will fail because the SAP ID is not unique anymore and the object to be synchronized cannot be determined. This is why definition copies of SAP items previously transferred to ARIS must not be used.
Therefore, in SAP® process models with a specified SAP ID, SAP functions with an identical SAP ID must occur only once. You can recognize these SAP functions by this symbol if you have not changed the method configuration:
Solution
Delete definition copy
Delete all definition copies made from an SAP item from the related branch and scope in ARIS. Make sure that only the synchronization-relevant object remains. Use the displayed SAP ID and the ARIS GUIDs to identify the related object definitions.
Create new object definition
Use the SAP function wizard to create a new object definition on process step level which uses the related PSL step. The SAP function wizard guarantees compliance with the consistency rules. ARIS provides you with optional support for creating SAP functions for a branch, executables, interfaces and documents. If you enable the Open supporting dialog and Run executables with SAP® Solution Manager check boxes on the Solution Manager options page, the executable codes and assignment structure of new SAP functions will automatically be specified according to the consistently rules for SAP® Solution Manager 7.2. Documents can be transferred to SAP® Solution Manager.
Use PSL occurrences
Use occurrences of PSL objects in your business processes instead of object definitions.
Use the SAP shadow function symbol
If you do not want ARIS objects to appear in your SAP structure, use the SAP shadow function symbol.
If you are using occurrence copies of SAP functions, they are displayed with the SAP shadow function symbol by default:
The SAP shadow function symbol excludes the object from the synchronization process. This also affects related Process interface symbols used in process models.