Create/Import a model

You can use the modeling component to create new models and to import models from ARIS Express.

Create new models

You can create new models, for example, to model procedures as a control flow or model the data generation and usage. Event-driven process chains (EPC) and Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) version 2.0. are widely used modeling notations. The basics for these modeling techniques can be found in EPC in ARIS and in BPMN 2.0 in ARIS.

Prerequisite

You have the ARIS Connect Designer license privilege.

Procedure

Prerequisites

You have the ARIS Connect Designer license privilege.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher.

  2. Click Create model Create model. The corresponding dialog opens.

  3. Enter a name for the new model in the Model name box.

  4. Click the Model type box and enter part of the model type name. All model types are displayed whose names contain the term you entered.

  5. Select the required model type. The Target area displays the database and group names. This is where the new model will be stored.

  6. Click the Group group icon next to the Groups box. The corresponding dialog opens.

  7. If more than one database is provided, select the relevant database.

  8. Navigate to the group where you want to save the model.

  9. Click OK. The Select target group dialog closes.

  10. Check your input.

  11. Click OK. The Create model dialog closes.

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Models & Objects Models & Objects. The Models & Objects view in the repository is opened.

  2. Select the relevant database.

  3. Navigate to the database group in which you want to create a new model. When you select the group, its contents are displayed in the details view. The More More icon is located next to the group name.

  4. ClickMore More > Create model Create model. The corresponding dialog opens.

  5. In the Model name box, specify the name with which the new model is to be created in the selected group.

  6. Click the Model type box and enter part of the model type name. All model types are displayed whose names contain the term you entered.

  7. Select the required model type.

  8. Click OK.

The new model is created and opened in a new tab. You can set up the modeling component and model the model.

Available model types

The following model types are available.

The number of model types may differ from the model types listed here. Additional model types can be enabled by the license key used. On the other hand, the number of model types can be limited by the filter used.

  • Access diagram

  • Access diagram (physical)

  • Application collaboration diagram

  • Application collaboration diagram (physical)

  • Application system diagram

  • Application system type diagram

  • ArchiMate model (2.1)

  • ArchiMate model (3.x)

  • Attribute allocation diagram (Solution Design)

  • Bow tie diagram

  • BPMN allocation diagram (BPMN 2.0)

  • BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0)

  • BPMN conversation diagram (BPMN 2.0)

  • BPMN process diagram (BPMN 2.0)

  • BSC Cause-and-effect diagram

  • Business controls diagram

  • Business ecosystem

  • Business footprint diagram

  • Business Model Canvas

  • Business rule allocation diagram

  • Business rule architecture diagram

  • Business segment matrix

  • Class diagram

  • CtX-tree

  • Customer journey landscape

  • Customer journey map

  • Customer segmentation map

  • Customer touchpoint allocation diagram

  • Customer touchpoint map

  • Data type diagram (Solution Design)

  • Data Warehouse model

  • DMN boxed function

  • DMN context diagram

  • DMN decision requirements diagram

  • DMN decision table model

  • DMN invocation diagram

  • Document structure (Solution Design)

  • DW structure

  • E-Business scenario diagram

  • eERM

  • eERM attribute allocation diagram

  • Enterprise BPMN collaboration diagram

  • Enterprise BPMN process diagram

  • EPC

  • EPC (column display)

  • EPC (horizontal table display)

  • EPC (instance)

  • EPC (material flow)

  • EPC (row display)

  • EPC (table display)

  • Event diagram

  • Fishbone diagram

  • Function allocation diagram

  • Function mapping

  • Function tree

  • Functions mapping (SAP Solution Manager)

  • IE Data model

  • Information carrier diagram

  • IoT object context

  • IoT object definition

  • IT architecture mapping

  • IT architecture matrix

  • Knowledge map

  • Knowledge structure diagram

  • KPI allocation diagram

  • KPI tree

  • Matrix model

  • Network diagram

  • Network topology

  • Objective diagram

  • Organizational chart

  • Process selection diagram

  • Process selection matrix

  • Product allocation diagram

  • Product selection matrix

  • Product/Service exchange diagram

  • Product/Service tree

  • Product tree

  • Program flow chart (PF)

  • Questionnaire template allocation diagram

  • Questionnaire template diagram

  • Quick model

  • RAD

  • Requirement allocation diagram

  • Requirements tree

  • Risk diagram

  • Role diagram

  • SAP functions mapping (SAP Solution Manager)

  • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse data flow model

  • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse mapping multi provider

  • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse structure

  • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse transformation

  • SAP Solutions allocation diagram

  • SAP Solutions organizational elements mapping

  • Screen design

  • Screen design (Solution Design)

  • Screen diagram

  • Screen navigation

  • Service allocation diagram

  • Service architecture diagram

  • Service collaboration diagram

  • SIPOC

  • Strategy allocation diagram

  • Strategy diagram

  • Structuring model

  • SWOT diagram

  • System environment

  • Table diagram

  • Task allocation diagram

  • Technical resources

  • Technical terms model

  • TOGAF diagram

  • Value-added chain diagram

  • Value stream map

  • Work breakdown structure

  • XML model

Model template

When you create, import, or generate a new model, it is based on a template. If you have the ARIS Enterprise Administration license privilege and the Configuration administrator function privilege, you can apply templates to model types.

If a template is assigned to the model type you use, this template is used. If there is no assignment to a template, your model is created based on the Default template.

Method filter used

When you open and edit models, your work is based on one of the method filters assigned to you. Database administrators specify which method filter a user may use in ARIS. To do this, a database administrator assigns the method filter to the database.

Filter restricting the total number of ARIS Method items and thus offering only those items for modeling that are required.

By applying a specific method filter, only the model types included in this method filter will be offered for selection when creating new models. When modeling, all object, connection, and attribute types are available for the model types that are contained in the method filter. Thus, the content offered is exactly the content you need for performing your tasks. Method filters are an effective means of supporting uniform modeling and make it possible to provide users with only the information and methods relevant to them.

The method filter applied depends on the method filter(s) assigned to you.

  • If you were assigned only one filter, that filter is applied.

  • If you were assigned multiple filters:

    • The method filter assigned to the database is used (default filter of the database).

    • If the default filter of the database does not exist, the filter named Demo is used.

    • If the Demo filter does not exist either, the Entire method filter is applied.

    • If the Entire method filter also does not exist, the first method filter of the alphabetically sorted list is used.

Missing model type

You can create model types and method filters.

Cause

There is a model in the database that is based on a user-defined model type that no longer exists in the ARIS method configuration. In this case, the user-defined model type can no longer be used to find the model. There are two possible reasons why the model type is no longer available:

  • The method filter used does not contain the user-defined model type.

  • The model type has been intentionally deleted from the ARIS method configuration.

Solutions

  • If a method filter exists on the server or tenant that contains the user-defined model type, the user can log in to the database again with this method filter. The model is based on the user-defined model type again.

  • If there is no method filter on the server or tenant that contains the user-defined model type, the system administrator can use ARIS Architect to import the method filter into the server/tenant and the user can log in to the database again with this method filter. The model is based on the user-defined model type again.

  • If the user-defined method filter has been intentionally deleted, the system administrator can reorganize the database on the Administration tab of ARIS Architect with the Automatically replace missing item types option. This resets the model type to the standard ARIS model type. After logging into the database again, the search can find the model again if it is performed using the standard ARIS model type.

Keyboard shortcuts for the modeling component

The following shortcuts are available in the modeling component.

Keyboard shortcuts can be performed on selected items. Selected items can be identified by the focus in the program.

Selection marker that marks the item that is selected. There are certain occurrences of selection markers, such as text cursors.

The focus is usually surrounded by colored frames, which can be dashed or solid.

You can often start actions for the selected items using the Enter key or the space bar.

Shortcut

Action

Alt

Temporarily switches off Guided Modeling and grid when you drag items.

Alt + down arrow

Moves selected objects down by four grid lines.

Alt + F4

Closes the web browser. If changed models have not yet been saved, the system displays a message to notify you. You can cancel the dialog and save the model or leave the model page without saving.

Alt + left arrow

Moves selected objects four grid lines to the left.

Alt + - (minus)

Inserts an optional hyphen at the cursor position in a text.

Alt + right arrow

Moves selected objects four grid lines to the right.

Alt + up arrow

Moves selected objects up by four grid lines.

Backspace

Removes selected object symbols or deletes selected items, such as free-form text and graphic objects.

Ctrl + A

Selects all items.

Ctrl + C

Copies selected items to the clipboard. This enables you to paste copied items from the clipboard into models/diagrams and into other Windows programs.

Ctrl + down arrow

Moves selected items downwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + End

Displays the bottom right pane of the modeling area.

Ctrl + Enter

Inserts a line break for text attributes, such as free-form texts, object names, etc.

Ctrl + F

Opens the Find bar.

Click the bar button Find Search to show the Find bar that you can use to have objects selected in the model.

Find bar

Ctrl + F4

Closes the model tab. If changed models have not yet been saved, the system displays a message to notify you. You can cancel the dialog and save the model or leave the model page without saving.

Ctrl + Home

Displays the upper left pane of the modeling area.

Ctrl + left arrow

Moves selected items to the left by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Page down

Switches to the next web browser tab from left to right if your web browser supports changing tabs using the keyboard.

Ctrl + Page up

Switches to the next web browser tab from right to left if your web browser supports changing tabs using the keyboard.

Ctrl + right arrow

Moves selected items to the right by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + S

Saves your changes.

Ctrl + Shift + V

Inserts a definition copy of an object if an object is in the clipboard.

Ctrl + up arrow

Moves selected items upwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + V

Pastes the content of the clipboard if this is content that can be placed in the modeling area. If an object is in the clipboard, an occurrence copy of the object is inserted.

Ctrl + X

Cuts selected items and copies them to the clipboard.

Ctrl + Y

Redoes editing steps that were undone.

Ctrl + Z

Undoes preceding editing steps.

Del

Removes selected object symbols or deletes selected items, such as free-form text and graphic objects.

Down arrow

Moves the modeling area contents up (the contents of the modeling area that are further down will be displayed).

Enter

Ends the input.

Esc

Removes selections and closes dialogs. Closing dialogs with the ESC key is the same as clicking Cancel.

F2

Selects the selected text attribute of an element or the object name of a selected object for editing.

F3

Opens the Find bar. When the find bar is open, pressing the F3 key jumps to the next occurrence of the searched term.

Click the bar button Find Search to show the Find bar that you can use to have objects selected in the model.

Find bar

F5

Updates the current view based on the database changes.

F11

Turns full-screen mode on or off if your web browser supports full screen.

Left arrow

Moves the modeling area contents to the right (the contents of the modeling area that are further left will be displayed).

- (minus)

Reduces the display of the model content by 10%.

Page down

Scrolls the screen down. The scroll distance may vary depending on the application.

Page up

Scrolls the screen up. The scroll distance may vary depending on the application.

+ (plus)

Enlarges the display of the model content by 10%.

Right arrow

Moves the modeling area contents to the left (the contents of the modeling area that are further right will be displayed).

Shift

Keeps the shapes of a circle and a square when you place and scale the graphic objects Circle/Ellipse and Square/Rectangle.

Shift + Del

Deletes a structurally relevant object without creating a connection between the remaining objects when you use Smart Modeling.

Shift + down arrow

Moves the object one grid to the left.

Shift + left arrow

Moves the object down one grid.

Shift + Page down

Moves the contents of the modeling area page by page to the right (the contents of the modeling area that are further left will be displayed).

Shift + Page up

Moves the contents of the modeling area page by page to the left (the contents of the modeling area that are further right will be displayed).

Shift + right arrow

Moves the object one grid to the right.

Shift + up arrow

Moves the object one grid up.

Up arrow

Moves the modeling area contents down (the contents of the modeling area that are further up will be displayed).

Keyboard shortcuts for the Select attribute dialog

The following shortcuts are available in the Select attribute dialog with which you can add attributes on the Properties tab.

Keyboard shortcuts can be performed on selected items. Selected items can be identified by the focus in the program.

Selection marker that marks the item that is selected. There are certain occurrences of selection markers, such as text cursors.

The focus is usually surrounded by colored frames, which can be dashed or solid.

You can often start actions for the selected items using the Enter key or the space bar.

Shortcut

Action

Down arrow

Moves the focus down to the next attribute if the focus is in the attribute list field.

End

Moves to the lower attributes if the focus is in the attribute list field.

Enter

Closes the dialog and adds the selected attributes when the focus is on the OK button or closes the dialog and adds no attributes when the focus is on the Cancel button.

ESC

Closes the dialog without changes. Pressing this key corresponds to clicking Cancel.

F5

Updates the current view based on the database changes. The Select attribute dialog closes without changes.

F11

Turns full-screen mode on or off if your web browser supports full screen. The Select attribute dialog remains open.

Home

Moves to the upper attributes if the focus is in the attribute list field.

Page down

Scrolls the screen down. The scroll distance may vary depending on the application.

Page up

Scrolls the screen up. The scroll distance may vary depending on the application.

Space

Toggles the check box of the attribute on which the focus is located.

Tab

Jumps from the Search field to the Show specified attributes only check box, the attribute list field, the attribute list, the OK button, and the Cancel button.

Up arrow

Moves the focus up to the next attribute if the focus is in the attribute list field.