If you have special modeling requirements that are not covered by the provided ARIS Method items, you can modify existing object types as required. This ensures that the appearance of all items complies with your company's corporate design. You cannot create or derive object types, but you can rename them and change the set of attributes, symbols, and connections allowed for modeling.
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 Object types.
Click the entry that you want to change. You cannot modify entries of the Default (not configurable) type. Use the filter to find a list entry.
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 object type.
If you just created the object 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.
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 object type.
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Click Assignments to select the model types that you want to provide as object assignments for objects
of this type. If you just created the object type but you have not yet assigned any
model types, the Show only types assigned view displays all locked model types. Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.
Select the Show all view.
To assign the required models, enable the controls in the Assigned column.
Use the filter to quickly find model types or sort the columns. If you are looking for model
types you configured, filter the list using the User-defined, Derived, or Customized keywords. If you click a header, the column entries are sorted.
Click Assign. In the Show only types assigned view, all selected models are listed and shown as
assigned.
Select the editable model type and click
More.
Click Enable 'Unique' or Disable 'Unique', as required.
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Select the editable model type and click
More.
Click Enable 'Insert object' or Disable 'Insert object', as required.
Check the assignment. Click Remove to delete selected models from the object type.
If the assignment is OK, click Apply.
Click Connections to see which connections are available between model objects. You cannot modify the set of connections.
If you want to change the connection types that users can use to connect object symbols or objects of a certain type, you must modify the set of connection types in the related model type.
Click Apply.
Add the object type to the method filter that users will use for login.
The object type is changed and is available for all users of this tenant who logged in with a method filter that contains this object type.
If you want to use a different symbol for a model object, you must first derive the object symbol and change the symbol graphics.