External links include links to Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, digital photos, Internet or e-mail addresses, etc., all of which are linked via the various attributes of an object. You can select links to be included in a Publisher export in the Profile Wizard (ARIS > Options > Publisher export profiles).
SAP® transactions and R/3 help if certain prerequisites are met.
OLE links have been inserted as linked icons in a model. Documents are displayed as icons in the model. They can be opened if the appropriate OLE server was installed when they were embedded.
Links can be run if you observe the following:
Ensure that the necessary programs and OLE servers have been installed on the computers (for example, Microsoft® Word for files with the extension DOC, Microsoft® Excel for files with the extension XLS).
If you publish OLE objects whose file names are written in Japanese characters in another language, for example, de or en, the names will not be displayed correctly. These files cannot be opened. To be able to open the files, replace the Japanese (or other) file names with English ones.
If you have enabled the Copy documents check box and started ARIS Server as a service on the Include links page of the Profile Wizard (ARIS > Options > Publisher export profiles), make sure that your authorization concept permits access to linked documents.
Ensure that names of linked documents or OLE documents do not contain any spaces and that the file names are written in lower case letters. Some browsers do not work correctly if this condition is not met. Links will not be executed in that case.