Configure content types

From ARIS in 10.0 <Service Release 15, you have two options to adapt the content used in ARIS. You can either specify the items and properties as you are used to, or you use the Content type configuration.

You can adapt the content types to specify the content to display. You do so under Conventions > Content types.

You can specify the content to display by activating the Content type configuration. With this configuration, you have extended options to specify the content used in ARIS. After you apply the extended configuration options, you cannot switch back to the configuration used in earlier versions without losing the configuration you extended.

By default, each content type set has exactly one default content type for a model, object, group, and connection.

These content types define groups and properties for all other content types of the same kind (model, object, group, connection). Self-defined content types can overwrite the default properties if you use the same identifier.

If the Content type configuration is enabled and the relations are specified, you can model relations using the Properties panel of ARIS and the Connected objects tab of the Properties bar in ARIS Architect.

For example, you can connect satellites to an object of type Function instead of manually assigning a function allocation diagram for the object.