Create objects for reuse

As a master owner, you create objects for which no variants are to be created when creating the model variants. This applies to organizational elements and application systems. For example, this can be a role or a customer relationship management system that only exists once in the company.

  1. Define the exclusion groups.

    You can define exclusion groups to store objects to be excluded from variant creation. If model variants are created, objects stored in exclusion groups are placed as occurrence copies instead of object variants.

    Prerequisite

    • You have the ARIS Enterprise Admin license privilege.

    • You have the Database administrator function privilege.

    Procedure

    1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. The Configuration Configuration view is shown.

    2. Click Databases.

    3. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration > Configuration Configuration > Databases.

    4. Click the name of the database in which you want to define an exclusion group and click Properties Properties > Variant management Variant management.

    5. Click Add exclusion group. The bar opens and you can expand the database groups.
      If you want to create a new group as an exclusion group, click Create group, enter a name, and click OK.

    6. Select the group you want to exclude from variant creation and click Add exclusion group. The selected group is listed.

    7. Follow the same steps to exclude other groups.

    8. Enable the check box Consider exclusion groups in ARIS Architect if the groups should also be considered as exclusion groups in ARIS Architect. If you have enabled the Enhanced variant management check box, Consider exclusion groups in ARIS Architect is gray because ARIS Architect does not provide enhanced variant management.

    You defined the groups that contain objects, which are excluded from variant creation.

  2. If you want to create new objects for which no variants are to be created, you can create them directly in the appropriate exclusion group.

  3. If you have existing objects for which no variants are to be created, move them to the exclusion group.

Saving objects in the exclusion groups means that no variants are created for these objects when you create model variants. They are only inserted as occurrence copies.

Also, objects stored in exclusion groups can be reused as occurrences when models are edited by the master owner or variant owners.

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