Properties

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

Prerequisite

You have the Designer role and the Project room management privilege.

You have created a set of content types.

Add attribute property

Add relation

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

Open content types page
Click the content type set you want to edit.
Click the object to which you want to add a relation.
Scroll to the relevant property group.
Click Create property.
Select Add relation. The dialog opens.
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.
In the View section, specify the configuration for the modeling component.
1. You can add and remove content types. To add content types, click Add content type. Select the target content types for the relations. To remove a content type, click Delete.
2. Optional: Enable Target object types refinement.
  You can add or remove object types. To add object types, click Add object types. To delete an object type, click Delete.
3. In the Type section, specify whether you want to consider objects on 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 Add connection types. Select the connection types for the relation. To remove a connection type, click Delete. The Overview of configured relations displays the connections that are allowed according to the ARIS Advanced method at the definition level.
5. Optional: For connections that can be both an incoming and an outgoing connection, you can restrict the direction.
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.
In the Edit section, specify the subset of settings to be used by the ARIS Advanced Designer to display and edit the associated content in the property panel.
1. In the Type section, specify whether you want to consider objects that have 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 objects that have a connection for use in the modeling component.
3. Optional: Specify the symbol types for creation in the modeling component. The symbol list contains a subset of the symbols specified in the View section or the symbols specified for the target content types.
Click Save.

You have added the relation.

For more information about the content types, click Information.

Edit a property

You can edit a property.

Open content types page
Click the content type set you want to edit.
Click the model, object, connection, or group for which you want to edit a property.
Scroll to the relevant property group.
Click the relevant property. The dialog opens.
Make you changes.
Click Save.

You have edited the property.

For more information about the content types, click Information.

Display usage of properties

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

Open content types page
Click the content type set you want to edit.
Click on the content type set for which you want to display the usage of the properties for a content type.
Click the relevant content type..
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.

Open content types page
Click the content type set you want to edit.
Click the model, object, or connection for which you want to move a property.
Click the arrow next to the relevant property group.
In the line of the property you want to move, click Move up to move the property up or click 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.

Open content types page
Click the content type set you want to edit.
Click the model, object, or connection for which you want to move a property to a different property group.
Click the arrow next to the relevant property group.
In the line of the property you want to move, click Move to to specify a different property group for the property. The dialog opens.
Select the relevant property group from the list and click Move to.

You have moved the property to a different property group.

Tip

You can move properties using drag and drop.

Delete a property

You can delete a property.

Open content types page
Click the content type set you want to edit.
Click the model, object, or connection from which you want to delete a property.
In the line of the property you want to delete, click More.
Click Delete to delete the property. The dialog opens.
Click Delete to confirm.

You have deleted the property.