ARIS Process Integration
Software AG Designer is integrated with ARIS Architect so that the users of these tools may easily share and collaborate, freely passing process models from ARIS Architect to Designer and back.
You can import ARIS models in the following ways:
ARIS Architect supports model exchange both with and without CentraSite. By default, models are shared directly, with no use of CentraSite. After a CentraSite configuration is set, it is used instead. This is configured in ARIS when the database is created. For CentraSite support, the select Model-to-execute-scenario property must be selected, and the CentraSite connection properties must be specified.
Important: | ARIS requires a CentraSite configuration to exchange Web services in a process model. |
Important: | After you set the database to use CentraSite, you cannot change it back. |
When the database in ARIS Architect is configured to use CentraSite, it is used as the repository where all its process models are saved.
The ARIS server manages roles and access to the models in the repository, enforcing the process life cycle, whether or not you use CentraSite. It also controls which users belong to which roles, and which roles have access to which models and for what purpose.
To import a model from ARIS,
Designer connects to an ARIS server using the credentials on the ARIS Server preferences page. See
Configuring ARIS Server
Preferences.
When
Designer is connected to the ARIS server, refreshing the ARIS Tasks view in the
Process Development perspective retrieves the up-to-date list of ARIS tasks. See
The ARIS Tasks View. Each ARIS task in the ARIS Tasks view represents a process model. In
Designer, you can accept one of these ARIS tasks and then import the associated process model to work on it. See
Importing an ARIS Process (XPDL
File).
The resulting .process file contains the model as represented by a conversion from BPMN to XPDL to Designer. It includes:
Pools and swimlanes
Events (with many restrictions)
Activities and subprocesses
Referenced child processes
Extensions to maintain ARIS ObjectIDs for all of the above when re-exported to ARIS later
Extra metadata about the model in ARIS
Server location of the ARIS model
The model’s ObjectID
Note: | The imported model does not contain DataObjects (XSDs as Integration Server document types). |
When work on the process model in
Software AG Designer is finished, the
Designer user can update the original ARIS version by publishing an update to ARIS. ARIS users can then view the process in
ARIS Architect. Further development should be done in
Designer. See
Synchronizing ARIS Processes.
For more information about ARIS-Designer integration and configuration, see ARIS Architect documentation.
