This use case shows you how to create symbols using ARIS Symbol Editor and how to use them as object symbols in your models.
Prerequisite
You are a configuration administrator in ARIS, which enables you to import the custom symbol into ARIS.
You have a graphic in AMF, EMF, JPG, GIF, PNG, or BMP format that you can import as a company logo in the use case.
Scenario
You want to create a new object symbol for the Event ARIS object type. You are using the default symbol as a basis. In addition, you want to insert your company logo, change the colors and add text. Finally, you make this new object symbol available to all users.
Click Graphic symbols if the Graphic symbols bar is not shown.
Click Add symbols in the Graphic symbols bar. The Add symbols dialog opens.
Navigate to the ARIS symbol number 1 symbol, double-click the symbol, and then click Close. The symbol is added at the end of the listed symbols to the Graphic symbols bar.
Click the ARIS symbol number 1 symbol in the Graphic symbols bar and click the relevant position in the workspace.
Click Graphic in the Insert tab bar. The Import graphic dialog opens.
Select the graphics file containing the logo to be imported and click Import graphic.
Click the relevant position in the workspace. The logo is inserted.
Move the mouse pointer to a corner of the logo and resize the logo so that it can be placed on the ARIS symbol number 1 symbol.
Move the logo to the bottom left corner of the ARIS symbol.
Click Free-form text in the Insert tab bar and then in the top left corner of the ARIS symbol number 1 symbol.
Enter ARIS.
Click in the background of the workspace. Text editing closes.
Right-click the logo and select Properties. The Properties - Graphic symbol dialog opens.
Click Original size in the View tab bar. You can see how the symbol is displayed in ARIS after the import.
Click Preview: Identification icon in the bar to the right. In the Preview: Identification icon bar, you can see how the new identification icon will be displayed in the Symbols bar as well as in in trees and lists.
To change the display, click Identification icon above the workspace. The workspace for the Identification icon is displayed.
Arrange the graphic elements used to display the icon in the Symbols bar as well as in in trees and lists. Your changes are immediately displayed in the Preview: Identification icon bar.
Click Save and save the file in AMF format (ARIS Meta File format) under the name New event.
The new object symbol can be made available on the Administration tab in ARIS.
Right-click the Event object symbol, and select New > Derive symbol. The Symbol Wizard opens.
Select the required language.
Enter a name for the new object symbol. This name is used by default when you place the object symbol in the model window.
Click Next.
Click Browse, select the object symbol you created, and click Open and Finish. The symbol is now available. To use the new symbol in databases that are currently opened, you must first log off and log in again.
Open a model of the EPC type. In the Symbols bar, the new event is available.
Your new object symbol is now available for further use.