Create database

To roll out a master model, you must create a database with the appropriate settings.

Prerequisite

You are logged in as a system user.

Procedure

  1. Create a versionable database and customize the group structure.

    The database structure for enhanced variant management depends on the conventions used in your organization for ARIS data. The following structure is an example that you should adapt to the conventions in your organization.

    Create the groups for the master models and for each region in your database.

    You should also create groups for the objects you want to exclude from variant creation, such as Application systems and Organization. In the exclusion groups, the master owner adds the objects for which occurrence copies are created instead of variants during variant creation. These objects represent, for example, application systems or organizational elements that are unique in the company. For exclusion groups, all variant owners receive read permissions through the Variant owners user group, so that the variant owner can reuse these objects in their model variants.

    Database structure

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

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

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

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

  6. Assign the Database administration function privilege and ARIS Enterprise Admin license privilege to the Master owners user group. The assigned master owners can now define the exclusion groups.

  7. Assign the Read + Write + Delete + Version (rwdv) database access privilege to the Variant owners user group. The assigned variant owners can now create the model variants from the master model and can reuse and version the objects stored in the exclusion groups.

  8. Create users as master owners and variant owners.

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

  10. 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.

_______________

Enable enhanced variant management