Manage items

Add and edit items of your custom modification set. The provided configuration sets Classic and Default cannot be edited.

Find item identifier

You can find item identifiers for diagrams so that diagrams can be displayed on the ARIS Home page.

Procedure

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

  2. Select the database in which the relevant diagram is stored.

  3. Click Groups.

  4. Navigate to the required diagram and click it. The model is displayed.

  5. In the address bar of your browser, select the part of the URL that starts immediately after the entry item/ and ends before the next / slash.

  6. Copy the selected text to the clipboard by pressing Ctrl + C.

You can use the item identifier of this diagram to configure the Home page.

Tip

If you want to configure start models for multiple databases, it is recommended to copy the various identifiers into a text file, and then copy them into the configuration from there.

Example

Item identifier

Add items

You can add items.

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.

  4. Click Items. All items defined in this modification set for groups, models, and objects are displayed. You can use these items in fact sheets and define which information is displayed where.

  5. Click Add Create item. The dialog opens.

  6. Enter the technical name of the new content type as an identifier, for example, process. The identifier must be unique for all content types.

  7. For each language, enter the name of the element that it is to be displayed. At least one language must be maintained. If you do not specify a path, the fallback path is used.

  8. In the Source box, select the type of ARIS item, for example, Object or Model.

  9. Enter the object or model type names. All types that you can use are displayed during input. Types that have already been assigned to other items are not shown.

  10. Click an entry. The type is added.

  11. Add further types, if necessary.

  12. Optional: If you want to specify the default symbol, click Show advanced settings. Add further default symbols, if necessary.

  13. Click Create. The item is displayed in the list.

  14. Click Reset Back. The Configuration and modification sets page is displayed.

  15. To test the changed modification set, activate it.

As soon as a fact sheet has been configured, the changes are available to all users of ARISl.

The new item is displayed in the Search area.

Edit items

You can edit items.

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.

  4. Click Items. All items defined in this modification set for groups, models, and objects are displayed. You can use these items in fact sheets and thus define which information is displayed where.

  5. Move the mouse pointer to the item you want to change, for example, Process.

  6. Click Edit Edit. The Edit item page opens.

    Identifier, name, type, and ARIS items are shown on the overview page of the Process item. In this example these are various model types whose information for the Process item is displayed in ARIS. They are model types for representing business processes.

  7. Click Edit. The Edit item dialog opens.

  8. If required, change the name displayed in ARIS in all languages, for example, Process to Business process.

  9. Click OK. The changes are applied and the dialog closes.

  10. Next to the ARIS items box, click Add. The Add ARIS item dialog opens.

  11. Add more items from ARIS. In the Process example, you can select model types that have not been used for the Process item yet.

  12. Click Add. The model list is completed and the dialog closes.

  13. Click Delete Delete to delete entries.

  14. Optional: If you want to specify the default symbol, click Show advanced settings. Add further default symbols, if necessary.

  15. Click Reset Back.

  16. To test the changed modification set, select it for publishing.

The changes are available to users in ARIS.

ARIS Viewer Contribution

Add item properties

Item properties determine the information available and displayable for the item in Published content. You can edit custom properties.

You can allow users who have both the ARIS Viewer and the Contribution license privileges to edit certain properties. This is also possible for properties that have already been defined in the selected template of the modification set.

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.

  4. Click Items. All items defined in this modification set for groups, models, and objects are displayed. You can use these items in fact sheets and define which information is displayed where.

  5. Move the mouse pointer to the item you want to change, for example, process.

  6. Click Edit Edit. The Edit item page opens.

  7. Click Properties. All properties of the item that can be displayed in ARIS are listed.

  8. Click Add Create property. The corresponding dialog opens.

  9. Enter the technical name of the new property as an identifier.

  10. For each language enter the name of the property that it is to be displayed with in the portal. Always specify the name in English as well because English is used as the default language if a language is missing.

  11. In the Data mapping box, select the type of ARIS item whose information is to be available. This depends on the type of item for which you are defining the property.

  12. For models you can select Attributes, Occurrence contained, or Related assigned models, while you can select Attributes, Related objects, or Object to object for objects. If you select Attribute and the attribute type, for example, Description, the descriptive texts for objects or models are searched and provided. For Connected objects, select connection and object type. This finds all objects associated with an object. Occurrences contained provides all objects of a model.

  13. Specify the settings described depending on the item type.

  14. Click Create. The new property is displayed in the table.

  15. In order to be able to test the changed property, it must first be assigned to an area in a fact sheet. To test the changed modification set, select it for publishing.

The changes are available to users in Published content.

Edit item properties

Item properties determine the information available and displayable for the item in ARIS. You can edit the properties.

You can allow users who have both the ARIS Viewer and the Contribution license privileges to edit certain properties. This is also possible for properties that have already been defined in the selected template of the modification set.

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.

  4. Click Items. All items defined in this modification set for groups, models, and objects are displayed. You can use these items in fact sheets and define which information is displayed where.

  5. Move the mouse pointer to the item you want to change, for example, process.

  6. Click Edit Edit. The Edit item page opens.

  7. Click Properties. All properties of the item that can be displayed in ARIS are listed.

  8. Move the mouse pointer to the property you want to change, for example, Process.

  9. Click Edit Edit.

  10. For each language enter the name of the property that it is to be displayed with in the portal. Always specify the name in English as well because English is used as the default language if a language is missing.

  11. In the Data mapping box, select the type of ARIS item whose information is to be available. This depends on the type of item for which you are defining the property.

  12. For models you can select Attributes, Occurrence contained, or Related assigned models, while you can select Attributes, Related objects, or Object to object for objects. If you select Attribute and the attribute type, for example, Description, the descriptive texts for objects or models are searched and provided. For Connected objects, select connection and object type. This finds all objects associated with an object. Occurrences contained provides all objects of a model.

  13. Specify the settings described depending on the item type.

  14. Click OK.

  15. Click Reset Back. The Configuration and modification sets page is displayed.

  16. In order to be able to test the changed property, it must first be assigned to an area in a fact sheet. To test the changed modification set, select it for publishing.

The changes are available to users in Published content.

Property templates

There are four different templates for properties:

  • Text (value_meta_text)

    This template is used for attribute values that consists of text.

  • E-Mail (value_meta_email)

    This template is used for attribute values that consists of text.

  • Link (value_meta_link)

    This template is used for attribute values that are links.

  • Image (value_meta_image)

    This template is used for attribute values that are images or links to images.

You can configure a label and/or an icon for each template can. The icon is displayed in front of the label.

Allow Connect Viewer users to edit

You can allow users who have both the ARIS Connect Viewer and the Contribution license privileges along with the corresponding access privileges to edit item properties that represent attribute values in the Published content view.

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.

  4. Click Items. All items defined in this modification set for groups, models, and objects are displayed. You can use these items in fact sheets and define which information is displayed where.

  5. Move the mouse pointer to the item you want to change, for example, Process.

  6. Click Edit Edit. The Edit item page opens.

  7. Click Properties. All properties of the item that can be displayed in the Published content view are listed.

  8. Move the mouse pointer to the property you want to edit.

  9. Click Edit Edit. The Edit property dialog opens.

  10. Enable Editing allowed.

    Allow ARIS Connect Viewer users to contribute

  11. Click OK.

  12. Click Reset Back. The Configuration and modification sets page is displayed.

  13. To test the changed modification set, activate it.

Users who have both the ARIS Viewer and the Contribution license privileges can edit the item.

ARIS Viewer Contribution

If you have both the ARIS Viewer and Contribution license privilege, you can change items and values for the following predefined items in the Published content Published content view. 'Predefined' means that these items and their values were configured to be editable in the program by default.

This means that not all items of the following model and object types can be changed. Only those can be changed that were designed to be editable by the underlying concept and were set up accordingly by the configuration.

Please note that this is a sample configuration, which means that other items may have been configured to be editable in your installation.

Model types

  • Application system type diagram

  • BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0)

  • BPMN process diagram (BPMN 2.0)

  • Business controls diagram

  • Enterprise BPMN collaboration diagram

  • Enterprise BPMN process diagram

  • EPC

  • EPC (material flow)

  • EPC (column display)

  • EPC (table display)

  • EPC (horizontal table display)

  • EPC (row display)

  • Function allocation diagram

  • Organizational chart

  • Process schedule

  • Risk diagram

  • KPI allocation diagram

Object types

  • Application system

  • Application system class

  • Application system type

  • Cluster/Data model

  • Entity type

  • Event

  • Technical term

  • Function

  • Information carrier

  • KPI instance

  • Class

  • Lane

  • List

  • Message

  • Organizational unit

  • Participant

  • Person

  • Risk

  • Risk category

  • Role

  • Location

  • Position

  • System organizational unit

  • System organizational unit type

  • Control test definition

Attributes

ARIS Viewer Contribution enables you to edit attributes that are based on the following base types:

  • Boolean

  • Value

  • Floating point number domain

  • Integer domain

  • Floating point number

  • Integer

  • Date

  • One-liner

  • Multi-line text

  • Link/File

Text formatting is ignored and cannot be assigned. If you are expected to enter numbers, the field is colored red if you do not enter a numerical value.

Please note that Binary Large Object (BLOB) and combined attributes are not supported.