Customize the start page (Home) of ARIS. The picture shows the default look and feel of Home.
Define your own layout for Home. You can select layouts with one, two, or three columns.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
The components that are initially displayed in the Home view are displayed.
Click Edit background.
Click Change image to customize the background image. The dialog opens.
Select the image you want to use.
From the Arrangement list, select Repeat if the image should be repeated to fill the screen. If you want to extend the image to the screen size, select Fill screen.
If you want to configure a background without an image, click Color and select the color or enter the color values.
Click Save.
The changes are displayed. This is only a preview to check how the customization looks like. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Define your own layout for Home. You can add a greeting message that is displayed when a user logs in. You can only add a greeting message if no greeting message is displayed.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select Greeting message. The dialog opens.
Select the language and the greeting message. You can also append the user name of the user that logs in.
Click Save.
The greeting message now displayed on the preview of the Home page. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
To restore the default greeting message, proceed as described above and click Restore defaults.
Define your own layout for Home. You can add contacts to list all users of the current ARIS server with User administrator function privileges.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select My contacts.
The contacts are now displayed on the preview of the Home page. You can change the size by dragging the border. And you can position the component by drag and drop. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Define your own layout for Home. You can specify a diagram to be displayed as a start model on Home.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
You have copied the item identifier to the clipboard.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select Diagram. Diagram is inserted on the preview of the Home page. You can change the size by dragging the border. And you can position the component by drag and drop.
Click the inserted Diagram component.
Click Edit. The Edit diagram dialog opens.
Specify the name of the Diagram component in the various languages. The name is displayed as header of the Diagram component. You can display more languages. The entered name is displayed as header of the component.
Specify the zoom options.
Click Add to specify a start model for the Home page. You can specify one start model per database.
Select the database for which you want to add the start model.
Start typing the name of the model you want to specify as start model. All matching models are displayed.
Select the model you want to specify as start model.
Click Save.
For this modification set, the diagram is displayed as start model of the database in Home.
The following display options are available:
Fit to panel
The size of the start model is optimally adjusted to the size of the diagram panel when Home is called.
Fit width to panel
The width of the start model is optimally adjusted to the size of the diagram panel width when Home is called.
Fit height to panel
The height of the start model is optimally adjusted to the size of the diagram panel height when Home is called.
Minimal 80 % (with optional toolbar)
If you specify this option, the toolbar is specified as Optional (depends on zoom). If you keep this option, the toolbar below the model is only displayed if the model exceeds the size of the diagram panel.
Defined Zoom
The start model is displayed with the specified zoom level.
Toolbar
The toolbar can be specified as Hidden, Visible, or Optional (depends on zoom). If the zoom option is specified as Minimal 80 % (with optional toolbar), the toolbar below the start model is only displayed if the model exceeds the size of the diagram panel.
If you specify Hidden, no toolbar is displayed at all. If you specify Visible, the toolbar is always displayed.
Define your own layout for Home. You can create a Recent changes area. You can also define another name for this area. Moreover, the languages, the number of changes displayed, and a time interval for changes can also be configured.
Prerequisite
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select Recent changes.
Click Edit. The Edit recent changes dialog opens. Configure the name, the languages, the number of changes displayed,
and a time interval for changes.
Click OK.
The recent changes are now displayed on the preview of the Home page. You can change the size by dragging the border. And you can position the component by drag and drop. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Define your own layout for Home. You can add Quick links. You can add a quick link that can start, for example, an app or a web page from the Quick link area of the Home page.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select Quick links. Quick links are now displayed on the preview of the Home page. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Select the component.
Click Edit. The Edit 'Quick start' dialog opens.
Click New to add a new tile. The Add tile dialog opens
Enter the name in the various languages.
Enter the URL to which the tile links to. Enter the entire URL in the form http://<server>:<port>/<app path>.
Enable In a new tab to display the tile in a new tab in the browser.
Select a symbol as a PNG file for the tile.
Click OK.
Move the mouse cursor over the row of the tile you want to move.
Use the arrows to change the order of the tile.
The configured links are now displayed on the preview of the Home page. You can change the size by dragging the border. And you can position the component by drag and drop. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Define your own layout for Home. You can add an external web page, for example, your company's home page.
Prerequisite
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select IFrame.
Click Edit. The Edit IFrame dialog opens.
Enter the name in the various languages.
Enter the entire IFrame URL in the form http://<server>:<port>/<web page>.
Click OK.
The configured IFrame item is now displayed on the preview of the Home page. You can change the size by dragging the border. And you can position the component by drag and drop. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Define your own layout for Home. You can add My favorites.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select My favorites.
The favorites are now displayed on the preview of the Home page. You can change the size by dragging the border. And you can position the component by drag and drop. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Define your own layout for Home. You can add the What's new area that lists the processes that have gone through the approval process for .
Give privileges to the users who should see approved processes in the What's new area.
to the groups of the databases for which models are approved.
To view, comment, edit, delete, and version database content, users need access privileges to the related database groups. To save time, you can grant access to user groups so that all members have access to the selected database groups. You can also grant access to individual users. Users that have the Database administrator function privilege in the ARIS Administration automatically have access to all the databases of a tenant. You cannot change privileges of database administrators or tenant-wide system users.
Click Application launcher >
Administration >
Configuration > Databases.
Select the database and click
Properties >
Access privileges.
Select the database group for which you want to change access privileges for user
groups or users. Click the Expand and
Collapse icons to navigate the hierarchy, or use the
filter to find database groups. You can create missing subgroups.
On the right-hand side, all user groups are listed to which you can grant access privileges. If you select Users, all users are listed.
Click Edit to manage the access privileges of selected user groups. For selected users, you
can only manage access privileges that were individually granted to the users.
Select the required
to be granted.No access (----)
Users see the group structure of the database. Group contents are not displayed.
Read (r---)
The group content is displayed. Users can open models but neither change models and objects, nor add or delete new items.
Read + Comment (rc--)
The group content is displayed. Users can use all functions of Collaboration in ARIS.
Read + Write (rw--)
The group content is displayed. Users can change models and objects, add new items, delete object occurrences from models, but not object definitions.
Read + Write + Delete (rwd-)
The group content is displayed. Users can modify models and objects and add and delete items.
Read + Version (r--v)
The group content is displayed. Users can open and version models but neither change models and objects, nor add or delete new items.
Read + Comment + Version (rc-v)
The group content is displayed. Users can use all functions of Collaboration in ARIS and open and version models. Users cannot add, change, or delete database items.
Read + Write + Version (rw-v)
The group content is displayed. Users can change models and objects, add new items, delete object occurrences from models, and version models. Object definitions cannot be deleted.
Read + Write + Delete + Version (rwdv)
The group content is displayed. Users can modify models and objects, add and delete items, and version models.
If you want to only grant access to the selected database group, click Apply. If you want to grant access to all subordinate database groups as well, click Pass on.
Access privileges have been granted.
Assign the users read access to the groups of the ARIS Connect Governance Inbox database that have the name of the databases whose approved models should be displayed in the What's new area.
When a process such as EPC, Value-added chain diagram or BPMN collaboration diagram is approved, it is listed in the What's new area for authorized users.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select What's new.
What's new is now displayed on the preview of the Home page. You can change the size by dragging the border. And you can position the component by drag and drop. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Give privileges to the users who should see approved processes in the What's new area.
to the groups of the databases for which models are approved.
To view, comment, edit, delete, and version database content, users need access privileges to the related database groups. To save time, you can grant access to user groups so that all members have access to the selected database groups. You can also grant access to individual users. Users that have the Database administrator function privilege in the ARIS Administration automatically have access to all the databases of a tenant. You cannot change privileges of database administrators or tenant-wide system users.
Click Application launcher >
Administration >
Configuration > Databases.
Select the database and click
Properties >
Access privileges.
Select the database group for which you want to change access privileges for user
groups or users. Click the Expand and
Collapse icons to navigate the hierarchy, or use the
filter to find database groups. You can create missing subgroups.
On the right-hand side, all user groups are listed to which you can grant access privileges. If you select Users, all users are listed.
Click Edit to manage the access privileges of selected user groups. For selected users, you
can only manage access privileges that were individually granted to the users.
Select the required
to be granted.No access (----)
Users see the group structure of the database. Group contents are not displayed.
Read (r---)
The group content is displayed. Users can open models but neither change models and objects, nor add or delete new items.
Read + Comment (rc--)
The group content is displayed. Users can use all functions of Collaboration in ARIS.
Read + Write (rw--)
The group content is displayed. Users can change models and objects, add new items, delete object occurrences from models, but not object definitions.
Read + Write + Delete (rwd-)
The group content is displayed. Users can modify models and objects and add and delete items.
Read + Version (r--v)
The group content is displayed. Users can open and version models but neither change models and objects, nor add or delete new items.
Read + Comment + Version (rc-v)
The group content is displayed. Users can use all functions of Collaboration in ARIS and open and version models. Users cannot add, change, or delete database items.
Read + Write + Version (rw-v)
The group content is displayed. Users can change models and objects, add new items, delete object occurrences from models, and version models. Object definitions cannot be deleted.
Read + Write + Delete + Version (rwdv)
The group content is displayed. Users can modify models and objects, add and delete items, and version models.
If you want to only grant access to the selected database group, click Apply. If you want to grant access to all subordinate database groups as well, click Pass on.
Access privileges have been granted.
Assign the users read access to the groups of the ARIS Connect Governance Inbox database that have the name of the databases whose approved models should be displayed in the What's new area.
When a process such as EPC, Value-added chain diagram or BPMN collaboration diagram is approved, it is listed in the What's new area for authorized users.
Define your own layout for Home. You can specify a dashboard to be displayed on Home.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
You have copied the item identifier to the clipboard.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Click Add Component.
Select Dashboard. Dashboard is inserted on the preview of the Home page. You can change the size by dragging the border. And you can position the component by drag and drop.
Click the inserted Dashboard component.
Click Edit. The Edit dashboard dialog opens.
Select a dashboard from the list.
Click Save.
For this modification set, the dashboard is displayed in Home.
Define your own layout for Home. You can configure the appearance of Home.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
You have copied the item identifier to the clipboard.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Select the component.
Click Edit. The corresponding dialog opens. Proceed as described in the chapter that describes how to add a specific component.
Make your changes.
Click OK.
The changed components are now displayed on the preview of the Home page of the database. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.
Define your own layout for Home. You can configure the appearance of Home.
Prerequisite
You have created your own modification set.
You have the Portal administrator function privilege.
You have copied the item identifier to the clipboard.
Warning
You cannot restore the Welcome area if you have deleted it.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Administration. The Administration opens with the
Configuration view.
Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.
Click Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.
Click Home.
Select the component.
Click Delete.
The changed components are now displayed on the preview of the Home page of the database. The changes are effective to other users as soon as you activate the modification set.