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Properties

You can specify the properties to display and model in ARIS. You can specify and group properties for models, object, and connections.

Add attribute property

You can add attribute properties.

  1. Open content types page.

  2. Click the content type set you want to edit.

  3. Click the model, object, connection, or group content type to which you want to add a property.

  4. Scroll to the relevant property group.

  5. Click Create Create property.

  6. Select Add attribute property Add attribute. The dialog opens.

  7. Enter the identifier. The identifier must be unique only for this content type. For example, you can have two object content types and both can have a property with identifier desc.

  8. Optional: For each language, enter the name of the property that is displayed in the portal. The name specified here is used only in the portal, not during modeling. By default, the name that comes from ARIS Method is used.

  9. Enter the attribute type. Start typing the attribute name to filter the list of attributes.

  10. Select the relevant attribute.

  11. Based on the attribute type, you can specify the data type, enable Allow editing in Contribution, and specify whether to use formatting in the publication. You can enable the Handle as a user option if you want that the Select user(s) dialog to be displayed when modeling a person responsible or a user group, for example.

  12. Click Save.

You have added an attribute property.

For more information about the content types, click Information Information.

Add relation

You can add relations. A relation is a connection between an object and its satellite.

  1. Open content types page.

  2. Click the content type set you want to edit.

  3. Click the object to which you want to add a relation.

  4. Scroll to the relevant property group.

  5. Click Create Create property.

  6. Select Create relation Add relation. The dialog opens.

  7. Enter identifier, name, and language. The identifier must be unique only for this content type. For example, you can have two object content types and both can have a property with identifier desc. For each language, enter the name of the element that it is to be displayed. At least one language must be maintained. If you do not specify a path, the fallback path is used.

  8. In the View section, specify the configuration for ARIS.

    1. You can add and remove content types. To add content types, click Create Add content type. Select the target content types for the relations. To remove a content type, click Delete Delete.

    2. Optional: Enable Target object types refinement.

      You can add or remove object types. To add object types, click Create Add object types. To delete an object type, click Delete Delete.

    3. In the Type section, specify whether you want to consider objects on definition level, objects that have occurrences in a model or in assignments. If you select Occurrences in assignments, you must select the model type in which the assignments exist.

    4. You can add and remove connection types. You must add at least one connection. To add connections types, click Create Add connection types. Select the connection types for the relation. To remove a connection type, click Delete Delete. The Overview of configured relations displays the connections that are allowed according to the ARIS method at the definition level.

    5. Optional: For connections that can be both an incoming and an outgoing connection, you can restrict the direction.

  9. Optional: Enable Symbol type restrictions. If you enable Symbol type restrictions, you can restrict the object types to specific symbols. You can enable that only the selected symbol is used or that all other symbols are used.

    You can add and remove symbols.

  10. In the Edit section, specify the subset of settings that are used by ARIS Designer to display and edit the related content on the Connected objects tab of the property panel or the modeling component to display and edit the related content in the property panel. The same applies to Contribution in the Published content

    1. In the Type section, specify whether you want to consider objects on definition level, occurrences in a model or in assignments. The available options depend on the settings you defined in the View section. You can enable only one option. If you select Occurrences in assignments, you must select the model type in which the assignments exist. If you already selected a model in the View section, you cannot select a model for assignments.

      If you want to disable the Edit settings, enable the Read-only option.

    2. Select all source and target object that have a connection for use in ARIS Designer or the modeling component or for Contribution.

    3. Optional: Specify the symbol types for creation in ARIS Designer or ARIS Designer. The symbol list contains a subset of the symbols specified in the View section or the symbols specified for the target content types.

    4. Optional: Specify the symbol type for creation in Contribution.

    5. Optional: Specify the assignment settings. The settings in this section are used only by Contribution and not by ARIS Designer or the modeling component.

      Specify the language, model name, and group for models. You can include the expression ${name} if you want to use the object name in a model name for the assignment. Example: My object ${name} assignment.

      Enter the group path and select the language. The path of the group within the main group is specified. In the following example, a group named Contribution containing another group named My assigned models is created in the main group: Contribution/My assigned models.

      If you enable the Relative path option, the assigned model is generated in the group of the object for which you created an assignment in a subgroup with the specified name.

  11. Click Save.

You have added the relation.

For more information about the content types, click Information Information.

Edit XML property

Properties in XML format support more extensive configuration, unlike relations and attribute properties. You can edit the name and, depending of the XML property, whether it can be changed using Contribution.

Prerequisite

  • You have the Admin role and the Configuration Administration privilege.

  • You have created a set of content types.

Procedure. Procedure

  1. Open content types page

  2. Click the content type set you want to edit.

  3. Click the model, object, or connection to which you want to add an XML property.

  4. Scroll to the relevant property group.

  5. Click the XML property. The description of the XML property is displayed.

  6. Enter the name. For each language, enter the name of the element that it is to be displayed. At least one language must be maintained. If you do not specify a path, the fallback path is used. The XML must contain an identifier. This identifier is read from the XML snippet and placed into the read-only identifier field. Depending of the XML property, you can specify whether it can be changed using Contribution.

  7. Click Save.

You have added the XML property.

Edit a property

You can edit a property.

  1. Open content types page.

  2. Click the content type set you want to edit.

  3. Click the model, object, connection, or group for which you want to edit a property.

  4. Scroll to the relevant property group.

  5. Click the relevant property. The dialog opens.

  6. Make you changes.

  7. Click Save.

You have edited the property.

For more information about the content types, click Information Information.

Display usage of properties

You can display whether a property is used in other properties or hierarchies.

  1. Open content types page.

  2. Click on the content type set for which you want to display the usage of the properties for a content type.

  3. Click the relevant content type..

  4. Click References.

All properties and hierarchies that use the content type are displayed. The name, the content type and the type of the property is displayed.

Move property

You can move a property to a different property group.

  1. Open content types page.

  2. Click the content type set you want to edit.

  3. Click the model, object, or connection for which you want to move a property.

  4. Click the Next arrow next to the relevant property group.

  5. In the line of the property you want to move, click Move up Move up to move the property up or click Down Move down to move the property down. You can select multiple properties and move them using drag and drop.

You have moved the property.

Move property to a different group

You can move the properties to a different property group.

  1. Open content types page.

  2. Click the content type set you want to edit.

  3. Click the model, object, or connection for which you want to move a property to a different property group.

  4. Click the Next arrow next to the relevant property group.

  5. In the line of the property you want to move, click Move to Move to to specify a different property group for the property. The dialog opens.

  6. Select the relevant property group from the list and click Move to.

You have moved the property to a different property group.

You can move properties using drag and drop.

Delete a property

You can delete a property.

  1. Open content types page.

  2. Click the content type set you want to edit.

  3. Click the model, object, or connection from which you want to delete a property.

  4. In the line of the property you want to delete, click More More.

  5. Click Delete Delete to delete the property. The dialog opens.

  6. Click Delete to confirm.

You have deleted the property.