Model types
Model types are templates for models that define which attributes are available, which object symbols a model can contain, and how these objects relate to other objects.
If you have the Viewer or Designer role plus the Architect role and the Project room management function privilege, you can rename model types or delete the ones you no longer want to use.
You can do the following:
If you have special modeling requirements that are not covered by the provided ARIS Method items, you can create your own ARIS Advanced model types. If you do not want to create a type from scratch, you can save time and derive your new type from an existing default type.
Click
Application launcher > 
Administration. 
Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types. On the Model types page, you can find all model types that are included in the ARIS Method of this project room.
Click
Create model type.If you want to create a model type based on an existing one, select the base model type and click
Derive model type.All attributes are displayed in the language with which you logged in.
Select all configuration languages that you use on this project room.
Enter the attribute values, such as Name and Description. You cannot edit certain attributes that are set by the system, such as Original name, API name, or GUID.
Warning
You must enter all values in each language. If you do not enter the name and description in a language, users who log in with this language will not be able to find this filter because (Untitled) is displayed as the filter name.
Assign the required attributes that you want to make available in models of this new type.
Select the symbols that should be used to place model objects.
Decide which connections should be available in your new model type.
Click Apply.
Add your new model type to the method filter that users should use for login.
The model type is created and can be used in filters. Your new model type is available for all users of this project room who logged in with a method filter that contains your new model type.
If you want to change the set of attributes that are available in model types, proceed as follows.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Click the entry that you want to change. You cannot modify entries of the Default (not configurable) type. Use the
filter to find a list entry.Click Attributes to select the attribute types that you want to make available for this model type. If you just created the model type but you have not yet assigned any attributes, the Show only types assigned view displays all locked attributes.
Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.Select the Show all view. All available attributes (attribute types) are shown.
To assign the required attributes, enable the controls in the Assigned column.
Use the
filter to quickly find attributes or sort the columns. If you are looking for attributes you configured, filter the list using the User-defined keyword. If you click a header, the column entries are sorted.Click
Assign. In the Show only types assigned view, all selected attributes are listed and shown as assigned.Check the assignment. Click
Remove to delete selected attributes from the model type.If the assignment is OK, click Apply.
All selected attribute types are available in models of this type. Make sure that related filters contain the selected attributes.
If you want to change assigned object symbols, proceed as follows.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Click the entry that you want to change. You cannot modify entries of the Default (not configurable) type. Use the
filter to find a list entry.Click Symbols and decide how objects should be displayed in models of this type. In the Show All view, select at least one object symbol that you want to make available. In contrast to the table you used to assign attributes, here the columns Object type and Symbol are additionally available. You can use these columns to quickly find the required symbols.
Select a default symbol if required. The default symbol is used for the assigned object type if users insert this object in a model of this type.
Decide whether an object symbol represents a basic object or a satellite. Basic objects are mandatory model objects transporting information that is distinctive for the model. Basic objects are used to build the typical structure of a model. Satellites only contain additional information.
Click Assign. In the Show only types assigned view, all selected symbols are listed and shown as assigned.
Check the assignment. Click
Remove to delete selected symbols from the model type.If the assignment is OK, click Apply.
All selected object symbols are available in models of this type. Make sure that related filters contain the selected symbols.
You can decide whether an object symbol in a model represents a basic object or a satellite. Basic objects are mandatory model objects transporting information that is distinctive for the model. Basic objects build the typical structure of a model. Satellites contain additional information.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Click the entry that you want to change. You cannot modify entries of the Default (not configurable) type. Use the
filter to find a list entry.Click Symbols and decide how objects should be displayed in models of this type. In the Show All view, select at least one object symbol that you want to make available. Use the Object type and Symbol columns to quickly find the required symbols.
Select an editable symbol and click
More.Click Enable 'Structural' or Disable 'Structural', as required.
Click Apply.
The setting is changed.
A default symbol is an object symbol that is automatically used when users insert an object in a model. You specify default symbols for object types and model types.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Click the entry that you want to change. You cannot modify entries of the Default (not configurable) type. Use the
filter to find a list entry.Click Symbols.
Select an editable symbol and click
More.Click Enable 'Default' or Disable 'Default', as required.
Click Apply.
The setting is changed.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Click the entry that you want to change. You cannot modify entries of the Default (not configurable) type. Use the
filter to find a list entry.Click Connections and decide how objects should be connected to each other in models of this type. For detailed information about how to connect object symbols and object types, click Information and use the required view.
You can either select the connections from a list, or you can decide which object symbols or which object types are connected.
If you want to select connection types that are available for a model type, click from all available connection types.
If you just created the model type but you have not yet assigned any connections, the Show only types assigned view displays all mandatory connection types that are locked.
Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.Select the Show all view to select the required types.
To assign the required connections, enable the controls in the Assigned column.
Use the
filter to quickly find connections or sort the columns.
If you want to select connections that are available between distinct source object symbols and target object symbols, click between object symbols. This action is appropriate when object types provide multiple object symbols. In this case, you can decide how to connect objects that use a specific object symbol.
Enable the source object symbols from which the connection should point. Use the
filter to find a list entry.Enable the target object symbols to which the connections should point.
Select the required connection types. If you just created the model type but you have not yet assigned any connections, the Show only types assigned view displays all mandatory connection types that are locked.
Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.Select the Show all view to select the required types.
If you want to select connections that are available between source object types and target object types, click between object types. In this case, users can connect objects using the selected connections regardless of which object symbols are displayed.
Enable the source object type from which the connection should point. Use the
filter to find a list entry.Enable the target object types to which the connections should point.
Select the required connection types. If you just created the model type but you have not yet assigned any connections, the Show only types assigned view displays all mandatory connection types that are locked.
Locked items are mandatory items. That means that you cannot remove or modify them.
Select the Show all view to select the required types.
Click
Assign. In the Show only types assigned view, all selected connections are listed and shown as assigned.Check the assignment. Click
Remove to delete selected connections from the model type.If the assignment is OK, click Apply.
All selected connections are available in models of this type.
To change the set of assigned connections, you need knowledge of how to connect object symbols and object types. To get detailed information, use the views available on the Information pages.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Click the entry that you want to change. You cannot modify entries of the Default (not configurable) type. Use the
filter to find a list entry.Click Information and use one of the views to find the relevant information.
If you want to know which symbols you can connect with a connection type, focus a connection, click Connections with source and target, and select the connection type. Use the
filter to find a list entry. All source objects and target objects that you can connect using this as a the connection type are listed.If you want to know which connections to use to connect target symbols, focus a source symbol and click Symbols with outgoing connections, and select the source symbol. All related connections that can point out from the selected symbol are displayed. Select a connection type to see the related target symbols. In this case, the active names are shown because the connection points from the source to the target. The name of a connection type is always used as the active name.
If you want to know which connections to use to connect source symbols, focus a target symbol and click Symbols with incoming connections, select the target symbol. All related connections that can point to the selected symbol are displayed. Select a connection type to see the related source symbols. In this case, the passive names are shown because the connection points from the target to the source.
The results are not displayed permanently. Make sure to take a screen shot of the screens. This will help you to change the set of provided connection types.
You can either change the name of a model type in the current language or you can change the names and descriptions in multiple languages.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Select the name that you want to change. You cannot modify entries of the Default (not configurable) type.
Click
Rename to change the name in the current language. To change the name and description in multiple languages, click 
Edit, select the languages, and overwrite the current name or description in each language as required.
The names and descriptions are changed. For default ARIS Method items, the original names always remain so that you can easily reset your modifications to the default state.
You can reset the name of user-defined and customized model types in the current language.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Select the name that you want to reset.
Click
Rename. The current name is displayed.Click Reset. The original name is used in the current language.
Click Save.
The name is changed in the current language.
You can replace one or several of the customized model types on this project room with original model types from the standard ARIS Method.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Enter Customized as a keyword and
filter the list to find all customized types that you can reset.Select the items that you want to reset to the default state.
Click
Reset.Warning
All selected customized method items are deleted and replaced by default ARIS Method items. Make sure that you exported method filters containing customized method items before you proceed. Then you can restore customized method items by importing the filters again.
Click Reset to confirm the action.
All selected items are reset to the default state.
If you no longer want to use a user-defined or a derived model type, you can delete it from the ARIS Method of a project room. To prevent users from using a model type, you must remove it from the available method filters. In this case, you do not have to delete the model type from the ARIS Method of your project room.
Click
Application launcher > Administration. Configuration is displayed.Click Conventions.
Click Model types.
Select the entries that you want to delete. You cannot delete entries of the Default (not configurable) type. You can delete only user-defined and derived types. Because default types are mandatory in ARIS Method, and customized types are renamed default types, you cannot delete those two types.
Click
Delete.To confirm the action, click Delete.
The selected model types are deleted from the ARIS Method of this project room.
You can restore ARIS Method to the default version any time.
Click
Application launcher > Administration.Click Conventions.
Click any method item, such as Model types.
Click
Restore ARIS Method.Warning
All user-defined and customized method items are deleted and replaced by default ARIS Method items. Make sure that you exported method filters containing customized method items before you proceed. Then you can restore customized method items by importing the filters again.
Click Restore.
Only method items that are contained in the default ARIS Method are available on this project room.