Manage plugins

A plugin is a software extension or an optional module that adds functionality to ARIS. Plugins cannot run without the main software they are integrated in.

As a ARIS administrator, you customize the plugins. If you want to use plugins in ARIS, you need extended configuration sets with plugins enabled that you cannot configure in ARIS Administration, please contact your local Software AG sales organization.

Plugins used together with ARIS must be written in Java Script and must have a valid signature. This signature is generated by Software AG and must be copied to the server.

Activate a plugin

You can activate a plugin predefined in a configuration set.

Prerequisite

  • You have created your own modification set.

  • You have the Portal administrator function privilege.

  • You have a customized configuration that allows plugins.

  • You have created a customized modification set based on the customized configuration set that allows plugins.

Procedure

  1. Open a user-defined modification set that allows plugins for editing.

    Edit your modification sets created based, for example, on the classic configuration set or the default configuration set. The provided configuration sets Classic and Default cannot be edited.

    Prerequisite

    • You have created your own modification set.

    • You have the Portal administrator function privilege.

    Procedure

    1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. The Administration opens with the Configuration Configuration view.

    2. Click Publication settings > Manage configuration sets. All available configuration and modification sets are displayed. You can edit the modification sets.

    3. Click Edit Edit in the row of the relevant modification set.

    The Define modification set page opens and you can edit the modification set.

  2. Click Plugins on the Define modification set page.

  3. Click Activate Activate.

The plugin is active. The configuration set defines the view in which the plugin is displayed.

Click Delete Deactivate to deactivate a plugin.

States for plugins

A plugin can have the following states:

  • Active

    The plugin can be used.

  • Disabled

    The plugin was manually disabled.

  • Development

    Either the plugin has no signature yet, or an incorrect signature was applied less than two weeks ago and needs to be adjusted.

  • Invalid

    Either the plugin has no signature yet, or an incorrect signature was applied more than two weeks ago and can no longer be adjusted.