Reports

With ARIS reports, you evaluate any number of similar database items. You can analyze processes and document the results taking into account various aspects. To start a report, select the content in the Explorer tree, in models, or in search results, etc., and click either a report or Start report Start report on the Evaluate tab bar. The Report Wizard always offers you those reports that enable plausible evaluations. Depending on the output format selected, the data is automatically transferred to the locally installed programs, such as Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel, or Microsoft® Internet Explorer, and Adobe® Acrobat®.

The Report Wizard assists you in outputting a report. It accesses report scripts that are included in the package. Information on the reports is located in the Description box in the wizard. For example, you can automatically output content for translation and insert the translated text back into the database.

A report includes only those models, objects, relationships and attributes that are allowed in the current evaluation filter.

Reports are opened in the program that is linked to the result format. For example, if you have selected the DOC output format, the result is displayed in Microsoft® Word on the computer where the ARIS Client is running. If Microsoft Word® is not installed, the report is displayed in your Internet browser.

Write your own scripts or adapt copies of existing scripts. To do this, you require knowledge of the JavaScript and ARIS Script programming languages. If you have no experience in writing scripts, you can create simple report scripts as template-based reports.

ARIS is supplied with numerous standard scripts. We generally recommend documenting all changes to scripts externally so that the documentation can be used to ensure that they are incorporated correctly during the update process.

Reports/Macros/Report templates and files

Do not make any changes to the standard scripts we supply. Always adapt copies of report, macro, and JS files, and any other files. There are exceptions, for example, the file atsall<language code>.js.

When updating ARIS, all ARIS standard scripts and files are overwritten and customer-specific changes to these files are discarded. Copied scripts and files and those you have created yourself are not overwritten.

If you have changed files we supplied but not copied them, before the update (updatesystemdb) they must be exported and then imported after the update. This enables you to retain your adapted standard scripts from the previous version. However, in this case you do not receive any corrections or updates to the files we supplied.

Semantic checks

We recommend creating custom rule types and custom profiles for semantic checks, in which the ARIS standard rule types and rules are referenced.

This is not possible for configurable rule types (relationship attribute rules, model attribute rules, object attribute rules, existence rules, and allocation rules). If you have added rules to these rule types, you must export the rule types before the update and then import them after the update.

As a script administrator for this tenant, you use the 'Administration' tab to manage the categories the report scripts are classified in. Different categories and scripts are available depending on the package you have purchased.

The administrator roles described in the following are defined via various privileges at the server and database level. Depending on the roles assigned to the administrators they can carry out specific functions.

superuser

The user superuser is created automatically. By default, this user is assigned the User management, License management, and Configuration administrator function privileges. This user can also enable this function privilege for other users. Users of the superuser type do not use up a license. They manage the system administration, but cannot use ARIS products due to license restrictions. The default password is superuser. You should change the default password to prevent unauthorized access. The password of the superuser is very important, as it is the only user who cannot be deleted. You can change all user data except for the user name. The superuser can recreate the other default users (system, arisservice, guest) if they were deleted.

system

The system user system assumes the administrator role of the system administrator and has all function and access privileges in all databases of a tenant. Authorized persons can use this emergency user to log in to any database, even if you are using an external system, such as LDAP, for authentication.

The name system cannot be changed. The System user check box for this user (Function privileges properties page in ARIS Designer) cannot be disabled either. You should immediately change the password manager to prevent unauthorized access.

To avoid problems, you should create additional system users. Having more than one system user can avoid problems, for example, if one system user has forgotten his password. If you forgot the passwords of all your system users, the full range of functions is no longer available and full data access is no longer possible.

The following administrator roles are defined:

Database administrators

Database administrators require the Database administrator function privilege in ARIS Administration. Users with this role have all function and access privileges and can edit data of all databases of the client.

Database administrators perform the following tasks at the server level:

  • Create databases

  • Delete databases

  • Backup databases

  • Restore databases using backups

  • Reorganize databases

Users with defined function privileges can perform additional actions at the database level.

Configuration administrators

A Configuration administrator requires the Configuration administrator function privilege in ARIS Administration.

They perform the following tasks:

  • Define the modeling conventions and adapt the appearance to match the corporate design of the company.

  • Define the contents of ARIS Method that are available in the database.

    • Create model types

    • Derive model types

    • Derive object symbols

    • Create attribute type groups

    • Create attribute types

    • Create attribute type symbols

    • Define symbols for an attribute value

    • Define symbols for alternative attribute values

  • Change configurable method names in multiple languages

Script administrators

Script administrators require the Script administrator function privilege in ARIS Administration.

Script administrators perform the following tasks:

  • Write report scripts

  • Define report scripts (design view)

  • Delete scripts

  • Define rules (semantic check)

  • Define rule types (semantic check)

  • Define profiles (semantic check)

  • Define macros

  • Export scripts

  • Import scripts

  • Import script template

  • Export script template

  • Transfer custom or modified scripts of previous ARIS versions

Publisher administrators

Publisher administrators require the Publisher administrator function privilege in ARIS Administration.

Publisher administrators perform the following tasks:

  • Create Publisher export

  • Update Publisher export

  • Delete Publisher export

Analysis publisher

Analysis publishers require the function privilege of the same name in ARIS Administration.

Analysis publishers perform the following actions:

  • Publish queries

  • Unpublish queries

  • Publish ad hoc analyses

  • Unpublish ad hoc analyses

Analysis administrators

Analysis administrators require the function privilege of the same name in ARIS Administration.

Analysis administrators perform the following actions:

  • Export query

  • Import query

  • Export ad hoc analysis

  • Import ad hoc analysis

  • Back up analysis and queries

  • Restore analyses and queries

Filter listFilter list

Reduces the number of entries displayed.

Enter a string. Only the items containing this string are displayed. When using the default filter criteria it is irrelevant whether the string occurs at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a name, for example.

If you click Filter list Filter criteria, you can use the Match case option, for example, or the wildcards * and ?.

If you want to remove the filters, click Close Close at the end of the row. The string is deleted, all elements are displayed again, and you can enter another string.

Name

Names of the database items. Click the column title to resort the contents.

See also

ARIS reports