If you have special modeling requirements that are not covered by the provided ARIS Method items, you can create your own ARIS model types from scratch or derive them from existing model types. This ensures that the appearance of all items complies with your company's corporate design. If you do not want to create a type from scratch, you can save time and derive your new type from an existing default type.
Prerequisite
You have the ARIS Enterprise Administration license privilege.
You have the Configuration administrator function privilege.
If you have created your own method items, such as models, objects, symbols, attributes, and connections, on a different tenant, make sure to import the method filter that contains these user-defined method items into this tenant.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The
Configuration view is shown.
Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Click Create model type.
If you want to create a model type based on an existing one, select the base model
type and click Derive model type.
All attributes are displayed in the language with which you logged in.
Select all
that you use on this tenant.Use configuration languages to specify the names and descriptions of all items that are managed in the Configuration section for this tenant, such as method items, filters, templates, font formats, content type sets, and evaluation scripts.
The Configuration administrators create the set of configuration languages that are available on a tenant.
Enter the attribute values, such as Name and Description. You cannot edit certain attributes that are set by the system, such as Original name, API name, or GUID.
Warning
You must enter all values in each language. If you do not enter the name and description in a language, users who log in with this language will not be able to find this filter because (Untitled) is displayed as the filter name.
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Click Attributes to select the attribute types that you want to make available for this model type.
If you just created the model type but you have not yet assigned any attributes, the
Show only types assigned view displays all locked attributes. Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.
Select the Show all view. All available attributes (attribute types) are shown.
To assign the required attributes, enable the controls in the Assigned column.
Use the filter to quickly find attributes or sort the columns. If you are looking for attributes
you configured, filter the list using the User-defined keyword. If you click a header, the column entries are sorted.
Click Assign. In the Show only types assigned view, all selected attributes are listed and shown as
assigned.
Check the assignment. Click Remove to delete selected attributes from the model type.
If the assignment is OK, click Apply.
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Click Symbols and decide how objects should be displayed in models of this type. In the Show All view, select at least one object symbol that you want to make available. In contrast to the table you used to assign attributes, here the columns Object type and Symbol are additionally available. You can use these columns to quickly find the required symbols.
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Select an editable symbol and click
More.
Click Enable 'Default' or Disable 'Default', as required.
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Select an editable symbol and click
More.
Click Enable 'Structural' or Disable 'Structural', as required.
Click Assign. In the Show only types assigned view, all selected symbols are listed and shown as assigned.
Check the assignment. Click Remove to delete selected symbols from the model type.
If the assignment is OK, click Apply.
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Click Connections and decide how objects should be connected to each other in models of this type. For detailed information about how to connect object symbols and object types, click Information and use the required view.
You can either select the connections from a list, or you can decide which object symbols or which object types are connected.
from all available connection types.
If you just created the model type but you have not yet assigned any connections,
the Show only types assigned view displays all mandatory connection types that are locked. Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.
Select the Show all view to select the required types.
To assign the required connections, enable the controls in the Assigned column.
Use the filter to quickly find connections or sort the columns.
between object symbols. This action is appropriate when object types provide multiple object symbols. In this case, you can decide how to connect objects that use a specific object symbol.
Enable the source object symbols from which the connection should point. Use the
filter to find a list entry.
Enable the target object symbols to which the connections should point.
Select the required connection types. If you just created the model type but you have not yet assigned any connections,
the Show only types assigned view displays all mandatory connection types that are locked.
Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.
Select the Show all view to select the required types.
between object types. In this case, users can connect objects using the selected connections regardless of which object symbols are displayed.
Enable the source object type from which the connection should point. Use the
filter to find a list entry.
Enable the target object types to which the connections should point.
Select the required connection types. If you just created the model type but you have not yet assigned any connections,
the Show only types assigned view displays all mandatory connection types that are locked.
Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.
Select the Show all view to select the required types.
Click Assign. In the Show only types assigned view, all selected connections are listed and shown as
assigned.
Check the assignment. Click Remove to delete selected connections from the model type.
If the assignment is OK, click Apply.
Click Apply.
Add your new model type to the method filter that users should use for login.
The model type is created and can be used in filters.
Your new model type is available for all users of this tenant who logged in with a method filter that contains your new model type.