Create a database

Steps | Phases

As a system user, you create the database used for the roll-out of the master model.

  1. Create a versionable database with the following database structure.

  2. Make sure that the method filter of the database contains the attribute Responsible person.

  3. Create users as master owners and variant owners.

  4. Create the user groups Variant owners and Master owners.

  5. Assign the function privilege Variant manager to the user groups.

    1. Click the user group to which you want to assign the Variant manager function privilege. The user group data (details) is displayed.

    2. Click Privileges. The list of function privileges is displayed.

    3. Enable the (Enabled) check box of the Variant manager function privilege.

    The members of the user group can now manage variants.

  6. Assign the license privileges ARIS Designer and ARIS Aware to the user groups.

    1. Click your name > Administration.

    2. Click User management User management. The list of users is displayed.

    3. Click the user or user group to which you want to assign license privileges. The details of the user or user group are displayed.

    4. Click Privileges. The list of function privileges is displayed.

    5. Click License privileges.

    6. Enable the Enabled ARIS Designer and Enabled ARIS Aware check boxes.

    The user or members of the user group can now model in the database and have access to dashboards.

  7. Assign the Read + Write + Delete + Version (rwdv) access privileges for the Application systems, Organization, and Processes (master) database groups to the Master owners user group.

  8. Assign the Read (r---) access privilege for all groups and subgroups of the variant regions to the Master owners user group. This allows master owners to open model variants in read-only mode to check what adjustments have been made.

  9. Assign Read + Version (r--v) access privilege for the Application systems, Organization and Processes (master) database groups to the Variant owners user group. This allows assigned variant owners to create the model variants from the master model and to reuse and version the objects stored in the exclusion groups.

  10. Assign variant owners the Read + Write + Delete + Version (rwdv) access privileges for their respective regional groups.

  11. Assign the master owners to the Master owners user group and the variant owners to the Variant owners user group.

  12. Assign the Database administration function privilege and ARIS Enterprise Admin license privilege to the master owners. This allows the master owners to define exclusion groups.

    1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

    2. Click User management User management. The list of users is displayed.

    3. Click the user or user group to which you want to assign the Database administrator function privilege. The details of the user or user group data are displayed.

    4. Click Privileges. The list of function privileges is displayed.

    5. Enable the Enabled check box of Database administrator function privilege.

    6. Click License privileges.

    7. Enable the Enabled check box of ARIS Enterprise Administrator license privilege.

      The selected user or user group can now administrate databases.

    1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

    2. Click User management User management. The list of users is displayed.

    3. Click the user or user group to which you want to assign license privileges. The details of the user or user group are displayed.

    4. Click Privileges. The list of function privileges is displayed.

    5. Click License privileges.

    6. Enable the (Enabled) ARIS Enterprise Administration check box.

    The user can now manage the ARIS Method and databases.

  13. Publish the database so that master owners and variant owners can access the roll-out dashboards later.

The database is created and you can set it up for enhanced variant management. Make sure that the master and variant owners have an e-mail address, as the system automatically sends status changes by e-mail.

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Enable enhanced variant management