Use templates to specify the graphic properties of models, object symbols, and connections.
Model templates contain basic settings that change the appearance and attribute placements of models and contained items all at once. This enables you to apply settings defined once to all relevant models. Using the templates supplied or those you create yourself will enable you to easily customize your models according to your requirements.
Configuration administrators can create templates and assign templates to a model type. If a model of this type is created or imported from ARIS Express, the applied template is used automatically.
Users can assign templates to models. When users assign templates to models, the settings made in the templates overrule all default settings for models and contained elements as well as database-related settings, such as font formats. All new objects and connections added to such models appear like defined in the template that was assigned last. When settings were changed for individual object definitions, these settings remain even if templates are applied.
Moreover, you can assign multiple templates to models. This means that you can assign a template to a model to change the size of objects, for example, and another that places the required attributes above the objects. Both changes take effect. Assigning multiple templates is possible for existing objects only. If you create new objects, only the template you assigned last will be applied to them.
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