Use favorites

Favorites enable you to quickly access database items you often need to work with.

In the Favorites area, you have direct access to all saved favorite settings. The predefined filters list the content of the selected database. The personal favorites lists the contents of all the published databases.

Open My favorites

You can open the My favorites My favorites area to access all filters.

Procedure

Click Application launcher Application launcher > My favorites My favorites. The My favorites My favorites area opens.

You can filter the database content by personal favorites, by predefined filter settings, or by your own filters settings.

Add model or group as personal favorite

You can add a model or group as a favorite to access it quickly from the Favorites area.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Published content Published content.

  2. Navigate to the model or group you want to add as a personal favorite.

  3. Behind the model or group name, click Save favorite Add as a favorite.

The star is colored (Favorite) and the model or group is added to the Personal favorites list. The stars of models or groups that you saved as favorites remain colored until you remove them from the Personal favorites list.

Remove a personal favorite

You can remove a personal favorite when it is no longer required.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > My favorites My favorites.

  2. Click the Down arrow down arrow of the Filter selection field.

  3. Click Personal favorites.

  4. Move the mouse pointer over the relevant model or group name.

  5. At the end of the line for the model or group, click Favorite Remove favorite.

The model or group is removed from the favorites list.

Tips

You can also remove a favorite by clicking the colored star (Favorite) if you have navigated to the model or group. The color of the star is removed and the element is removed from the list of favorites.

Save a search as favorite

In the Search area, you can save your favorite settings. Thus, you can search the content based on specific settings at any time.

Procedure

  1. Click Advanced in the Search Search field.

  2. If more than one database is provided, select the database your search is to be based on.

  3. Select the filter criteria to define your search.

  4. Click Save favorite Save search query as a favorite. The corresponding dialog opens.

  5. Enter a name.

  6. Click OK.

The favorite settings are saved in the My favorites My Favorites area. You can filter the content based on these settings at any time from various devices.

Filter favorites

In the Favorites area, you have direct access to all saved favorite settings. The predefined filters list the content of the selected database. The personal favorites lists the contents of all the published databases.

Procedure

  1. If you have access to more than one database, select the database you want to work with.

  2. Click Application launcher Application launcher > My favorites My favorites.

  3. Click the Down arrow down arrow of the Filter selection field.

    ARIS favorites

  4. Click the context label to select the relevant filter settings, for example, All processes (predefined search). The content of the selected database is filtered.

    Favorites search resul

    If the filter result does not fit on one page, page numbers are displayed behind the Filter selection field.

  5. Click the page numbers to display the content of the corresponding pages.

  6. Click the name of the item. The item opens.

You have filtered database content based on your filter setting and opened one of your favorites using the Favorites tab.

Use favorite setting in the Search area

In the Search area, you can open a favorite setting to filter the content based on predefined filter criteria.

Procedure

  1. Click Advanced in the Search Search field.

  2. If more than one database is provided, select the database your search is to be based on.

  3. Click Favorite Favorites in the Filters bar.

    Self-defined filter settings

  4. Click the favorite setting you want to use as the filter.

The filter criteria of the selected favorite setting are immediately applied and the list of filter results is updated.

Use favorite setting in the Favorites area

In the Search area you can define a filter setting that is used in the Search area and in the My Favorites area to filter the content based on your own filter criteria.

Procedure

  1. Click Advanced in the Search Search field.

  2. If more than one database is provided, select the database your search is to be based on.

  3. Click Save favorite Save search query as a favorite. The corresponding dialog opens.

  4. Enter a name.

  5. Click OK. The favorites settings are saved under Favorite Favorites in the Search area. In the Search area, you can filter the content based on these settings at any time from various devices.

  6. Click Application launcher Application launcher > My favorites My favorites. The Favorites area opens.

  7. Click the Down arrow down arrow of the Filter selection field.

    Own filter

  8. Click your own filter setting.

Based on your filter setting, the content is shown.

Delete filter setting

You can delete a filter setting when you no longer need it. The filter setting disappears from the Favorites area of the search and from the My favorites area.

Procedure

  1. Click Advanced in the Search Search field.

    Quick search

  2. Click Favorite Favorites.

  3. Move the mouse pointer over the favorite setting to be deleted. For user-defined settings, a Delete Delete button is displayed to the right of the filter name.

  4. Click Delete Delete.

The favorite setting is deleted.

Criteria of predefined filters

You can use predefined filters to list processes or documents. If you have the privileges of the role Designer, you can also create favorites yourself.

All processes (predefined search)

This filter lists all published models of type EPC and BPMN of the selected database.

All processes (predefined search)

My processes (predefined search)

This filter lists all published models of the selected database according to one of the following criteria:

  • Contains: All models of type EPC and BPMN whose Responsible attribute contains the user name you entered.

    My processes (predefined search) - User name

  • Is specified: All models of type EPC and BPMN whose Responsible attribute contains a user name.

    My processes (predefined search) - Is specified

All documents (predefined search)

This filter lists all documents whose Owner attribute contains the user name you entered.

My documents (predefined search)

Favorites structure in the Search area

The Favorite Favorites area in the Filters bar area reflects the saved favorite settings. The favorite settings are structured by labels, for example, Published content or Documents. The saved favorites are grouped under the labels. Thus, you can immediately recognize the contexts of the favorites.

Supplied filters have the addition (predefined search). You can define own filters settings. By clicking Application launcher Application launcher > My favorites My favorites you can open the filters defined here and filter the database content.