If the model comparison is enabled in your configuration set and is allowed for the database, you can visually compare model versions of one database or of model versions stored in different databases.
In versionable databases you can compare models with their versions.
Procedure
Click Application launcher >
Published content.
Click Groups in the Classic or Processes in the Default configuration set.
Navigate to the group where the relevant model is stored.
Click the name of the process model. The fact sheets are shown.
Click the Diagram fact sheet.
On the button bar, click Model comparison. The Model comparison bar is opened. Differences found are listed in the Model comparison bar and displayed directly in the model.
You have compared a model with its version. You can change the criteria to be compared.
You can specify which differences are listed in the Model comparison bar and displayed in the model.
Procedure
Perform a model comparison.
Enable or disable the comparison of individual criteria in the Controls area. The model display and the list of differences are updated immediately.
If you want to use the default setting again, click Restore defaults in the Controls area.
Click the Controls arrow to collapse the area to get more space for the list of differences.
Click a specific object in the comparison model to display its differences in the visible area of the list of differences.
Scroll to a difference in the list of differences and click the object. The object with its differences is highlighted. In the model, the object is selected and moved to the visible area.
You have used the Model comparison to display specific differences.
The differences displayed in the Model comparison bar depend on the selected controls and the selected item.
The differences are described.
Select the object whose differences you want to see in detail.
The difference description in the differences bar is moved to the left to highlighting it, in this example, Financial assistant.
Depending on the configuration used, you can display a comparison of the following criteria for the compared models.
Object changes
Displays which objects were changed in the original model.
Examples for object changes:
The names of the objects have been changed.
The attributes of objects have been added or deleted.
Additional changes
Displays additional differences between the original model and the comparison model.
Examples for additional changes:
Objects have been added.
Connections have been added.
Removals
Displays items removed from the original model in the list of differences.
With the ARIS Viewer license, you can compare model versions within a published database or between published databases. Model versions are compared in the Diagram fact sheet of the Published content view.
With the ARIS Designer license, you can also compare model variants, that is, the master model with the model variant, or the model variant with the master model. Model variants are compared using the Variants tab of the Repository.