SAP Cloud ALM configuration

You can use ARIS with SAP® Cloud ALM. You model your processes and export them to SAP® Cloud ALM which is an application lifecycle management system.

Prerequisite

Add SAP® Cloud ALM destination

To use ARIS as leading BPM system to manage your business processes, you must connect ARIS with a SAP® Cloud ALM destination. To use SAP® Cloud ALM, you must configure one or more SAP® Cloud ALM destinations. You can use multiple destination if you want to connect to different SAP® Cloud ALM systems.

For this release, the interface of SAP® Cloud ALM was only available in English. Therefore, the export functionality is only released for the English accept language.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

  2. Click Conventions.

  3. Click SAP® Cloud ALM.

  4. Click Add Add destination. The dialog opens.

  5. Enter the URL of the SAP® Cloud ALM tenant and the URL of the SAP® Cloud authentication service.

  6. Optional: You can test the connection to SAP® Cloud ALM.

  7. Click Save.

You have added a SAP® Cloud ALM destination. The process library that contains all the processes of the ARIS system is automatically available. You can use the processes of this process library in your projects. You can have multiple processes with multiple scopes in each project.

Edit SAP® Cloud ALM destination

You can edit a SAP® Cloud ALM destination.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

  2. Click Conventions.

  3. Click SAP® Cloud ALM.

  4. Click More More.

  5. Click Edit Edit destination. The dialog opens.

  6. Enter your settings

  7. Click Save.

You have edited a SAP® Cloud ALM destination.

Add project

You can add projects to be managed in ARIS. The projects must exist in SAP® Cloud ALM. In addition, the projects must have a scope that has the Custom Solution Scenario assigned to it in SAP® Cloud ALM. Only the scopes that have the Custom Solution Scenario assigned to them are available.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

  2. Click Conventions.

  3. Click SAP® Cloud ALM.

  4. Click Add Add project. The list of the projects in SAP® Cloud ALM opens.

  5. Select a project

  6. Click Save.

You added a project to the SAP® Cloud ALM destination.

You can have multiple processes with multiple scopes in each project.

Refresh destination from SAP® Cloud ALM

You can refresh SAP® Cloud ALM projects. If, for example, the name of the project was changed in SAP® Cloud ALM, the name of the project is adapted in ARIS to the new name.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

  2. Click Conventions.

  3. Click SAP® Cloud ALM.

  4. Click More More.

  5. Click Refresh Refresh destination from SAP.

You have refreshed a project from SAP® Cloud ALM.

Restore destination

You can restore a SAP® Cloud ALM destination from a database. The restore functionality restores the destination from a database that are missing, for example, if you have deleted a destination. You must specify names and URLs again.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

  2. Click Conventions.

  3. Click SAP® Cloud ALM.

  4. Click More More.

  5. Click Refresh Refresh destination from SAP.

    If, for example, the name of the project was changed in SAP® Cloud ALM, the name of the project is adapted in ARIS to the new name.

You have restored a destination from SAP® Cloud ALM.

Log out of SAP® Cloud ALM destination

You can log out of a SAP® Cloud ALM destination. You can manage you projects in ARIS without being connected to a SAP® Cloud ALM destination. If you are done with the project, you can connect to a SAP® Cloud ALM destination and export the data to SAP® Cloud ALM.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

  2. Click Conventions.

  3. Click SAP® Cloud ALM.

  4. Click More More.

  5. Click Log out of destination. The dialog opens.

You have logged out of a SAP® Cloud ALM destination.

Delete SAP® Cloud ALM destination

You can delete a SAP® Cloud ALM destination.

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

  2. Click Conventions.

  3. Click SAP® Cloud ALM.

  4. Click More More.

  5. Click Delete Delete destination.

You have deleted a SAP® Cloud ALM destination.

Display log files

Procedure

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

  2. Click Conventions.

  3. Click SAP® Cloud ALM.

  4. Click the process library to display all log files. Click the project to display the log files of the project

  5. Click a log file.

The log file is downloaded.