Quick Start Guide

ARIS Architect
Version 9.7

October 2014
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Contents
1 Before you start .................................................................................................... 1

2 Prepare ................................................................................................................ 2
2.1 Start ARIS Architect ..................................................................................... 2
2.2 Create database .......................................................................................... 3

3 Modeling .............................................................................................................. 4
3.1 Create a model............................................................................................ 5
3.2 Display print pages in the model window ........................................................ 7
3.3 Specify connection settings ........................................................................... 8
3.4 Create objects and object attributes............................................................... 9
3.5 Create object occurrences........................................................................... 15
3.6 Rename objects......................................................................................... 17
3.7 Arrange and group objects .......................................................................... 18
3.8 Create connections .................................................................................... 20
3.9 Create links .............................................................................................. 20
3.9.1 Create a program shortcut ............................................................... 21
3.9.2 Create a hyperlink ........................................................................... 22
3.10 Place attributes ......................................................................................... 23
3.11 Apply template .......................................................................................... 26
3.12 Save model............................................................................................... 27

4 Evaluate ............................................................................................................ 28
4.1 Print model ............................................................................................... 28
4.1.1 Configure header and footer ............................................................. 28
4.1.2 Specify print scale and color ............................................................. 30
4.1.3 Start printing .................................................................................. 30
4.2 Evaluate model contents ............................................................................ 31
4.3 Close model .............................................................................................. 32

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1 Before you start

This Quick Start Guide introduces you to the basic functions of ARIS Architect. Using simple
examples, you learn about important workflows for creating models, as well as for evaluating
model content.
After specifying the required settings, you will first create a model of the EPC type and then
evaluate it with a report. Your work with ARIS Architect can be divided into the following phases:

The Quick Start Guide guides you step by step through the required workflow.
If you have questions about working with ARIS Architect, you can use the online help:
 If you need help with an open dialog, click the Help button of the dialog.
 If you require additional information, click ARIS > Help in the menu bar.
 If you need method help you can press the Ctrl + F1 keys at many points in the program; the
Method help opens. If, for example, you have opened a model of the EPC type and press Ctrl
+ F1, the EPC type will be explained. If you have selected an object while pressing the Ctrl +
F1 keys, the Method help for this object is opened instead.

The screen graphics in this manual may differ from your program interface, because different
functions may be provided in ARIS Architect depending on your license.

Prerequisites

To make optimum use of this Quick Start Guide, you should be able to access the standard filter
and user settings from ARIS Architect. In addition, it is assumed that your system administrator
provided you with a link to the download client und that you, as a user, were created with the
necessary privileges in the system. In case of doubt, please contact your system administrator.

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2 Prepare
In this chapter you will find information about the program start and the preparations you must
make before modeling.

2.1 Start ARIS Architect

This description assumes that as a user you log in with a ARIS Architect license.

Procedure
1. Enter the link for the download client in the address bar of your browser. This link should have
been provided to you by your system administrator.
2. Select ARIS Architect/Designer and click Start.
3. Log in with the user ID provided to you.
ARIS Architect opens.
If the link does not work please contact your system administrator.

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2.2 Create database

In the following, you will create a database to save the data that you will generate while working
through the Quick Start Guide.

Procedure
1. Activate the Explorer tab.

2. Make sure that the Navigation bar is displayed.

3. Right-click your server and select New > Database.

4. The Create database dialog opens. Enter Sales and Marketing as database name and
leave the check box Versionable deactivated.
5. Click OK.
6. Right-click the database, and then Log in. Log in with the Default filter.
You have created the Sales and Marketing database and logged into it.

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3 Modeling
The following pages explain how you can display content using a model of the EPC type.

Your Customer acquisition EPC will appear as follows when finished:

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3.1 Create a model

To create the Customer acquisition EPC, proceed as follows.

Procedure
1. Click the arrow in front of the Sales and Marketing database in the Navigation bar. The
Main group folder is displayed, in which you store the new model.

2. Click Main group and then click New > Model.

The Model Wizard opens. Enable processes.

The models are assigned to the descriptive views Organization, Data, Processes,
Functions and Product/Service. The list shows all model types that are assigned to the
selected descriptive views and are allowed by the selected method filter. Please refer to the
ARIS Method manual for a detailed description of the ARIS architecture and an explanation
of the descriptive views and levels.
3. Click EPC in the Model types box.
4. Enter the name Customer acquisition in the Name box.
5. Click OK. The Customer acquisition model is generated and automatically opens.
6. Hide all bars except Symbols by disabling all bars in the bar panel except Symbols.
You can show the panes again at any time for navigation or for editing object properties.

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The model window, various toolbars and various buttons are now available for creating your
model.

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3.2 Display print pages in the model window

To predefine which parts of your model are to be placed on which print page, you can delimit the
print pages displayed in the model window using red dashed lines.

Procedure

1. Click Grid if no grid is displayed in the modeling area.

2. Click ARIS > Options.
3. On the Selection tab, click Model > General > Print.

4. Enable the Display print pages check box.

5. Click OK.
6. Click ARIS > Print > Print preview.
7. Enable the Portrait option button.
8. Click Close.

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The individual print pages are now indicated as portraits by red dashed lines in the model window.
Thus, you can ensure optimal object placement for the printout while modeling.
The settings that you specify with the ARIS > Options menu item in the Model > General area
affect all models. However, settings specified in the Model > For new models area apply to new
models only.

3.3 Specify connection settings

In the following you will specify that straight connections can also be created in your model.

Procedure
1. Click in the model background and activate the Format tab bar.

2. Click Representation > Connections.

3. Click Connections.
4. Disable the New connections only right-angled check box.

5. Click OK.
You can now also create straight connections in your model.

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If you want to create straight connections in all of your new models, click ARIS > Options and
Model > For new models > Connections on the Selection tab. Disable the New
connections only right-angled check box.

3.4 Create objects and object attributes

In this section, you will place objects in your model and edit object attributes.

Procedure
1. Right-click in the Symbols bar and select Symbols with names to display the symbol names
in addition.

2. Click the Event icon in the Symbols bar.

3. Move the mouse pointer to the modeling area and click again. The event is created and a text
box opens automatically.

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4. Enter a name for the event by overtyping the selection with Launch scheduled. To insert a
line break between Launch and scheduled, press Enter.
5. Click in the model background and then on the Launch scheduled event. The mini toolbar
is displayed under the event. It provides you with object symbols, connections and rules that
you can link to the selected object. If you do not want the mini toolbar to be shown for a
selected object, move the mouse pointer a few centimeters away from the selected object. It
will then only be shown when you select it again.
6. Click the Function symbol in the mini toolbar.

7. The connections allowed by the method are displayed. Keep the Launch scheduled
activates Function connection activated and click below the Launch scheduled event in
the model window.

Overtype Function with Find addresses of potential customers.

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8. Create the following objects one below the other using the mini toolbar, while keeping the
respective connection default:
a. Event: Addresses of customers found
b. Function: Find contact person
c. Event: Contact person found
d. Function: Schedule product presentation
e. Event: Product presentation scheduled
For longer names in an object symbol to be properly broken down, you can insert conditional
separators. To do so, press Ctrl + Hyphen (-). Conditional separators are displayed only if
a name really needs to be broken down. As soon as you enlarge the object and the name fits
within without a line break, the separator will be removed again.
9. If all objects are not displayed in the model window, decrease the representation of the
model. Activate the View tab bar and click Zoom out.

Alternatively, click Zoom > Custom in the View tab bar and enter the relevant zoom
factor, e.g., 85.
10. Click the Find addresses of potential customers function and then the Add symbols
button in the mini toolbar.

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11. The Add symbols dialog opens. Double-click the Organizational unit symbol.

The symbol is inserted into the mini toolbar.

12. Double-click in the dialog on the Application system type symbol to insert it into the mini
toolbar.

13. Finally, click Close to close the dialog.

14. You will create the next symbol to the left of the selected function Find addresses of
potential customers. If there is not enough space, insert space to the left of the selected
function:
a. Activate the Insert tab bar.

b. Click Horizontal space.

c. In the model window, click the position starting from which you want to insert a space
(from left to right), and hold the mouse button down.
d. Drag the visible line to the right and release the mouse button at the position where you
want to stop inserting space.
The model items positioned within the area indicated by the start and end lines are placed to
the right of the end line. The connections are adjusted.

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15. Now click the Application system type symbol in the mini toolbar and then to the left of the
selected function Find addresses of potential customers click in the model background.
16. Name the new object CRM system.
17. Click the Find addresses of potential customers function again and create an
organizational unit to the right of the function. Name it Sales.

18. Click the Sales object and click Attributes in the Start tab bar. Attribute Editing opens.
19. In the tree view, click Simulation.

20. Finally, click in the table on the input box of the column Sales (English) and enter the value
12 as the Number of employees.
21. Click Close and confirm the query with Yes.

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Your EPC should look like this now:

Tips
 To change attributes for multiple objects, select the objects, right-click in the selection and
select Attributes. The selected objects of each object type are summarized on individual
tabs.
 To remove the symbol from the mini toolbar, right-click the symbol, and select Remove
symbol.

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3.5 Create object occurrences

The Sales organizational unit is also responsible for the Find contact person and Schedule
product presentation functions. To structure your model clearly, you can create an occurrence
of the Sales object beside each of these functions. Object occurrences are copies of object
symbols that represent the same object in one or more models. Any occurrence of the Sales
object that you create will represent the object you have already created in your model. If you
change an occurrence, the changes will apply to all occurrences. This becomes apparent if you
change the name of the object.

Procedure
1. Right-click Sales, hold down the mouse button and move the pointer to the right of the Find
contact person function. Release the mouse button and click Create occurrence copy
here. Another symbol is created in the model for the Sales object. The symbol is not linked
to the function with a connection yet.
2. Create the next occurrence copy with the mini toolbar. To do so, click the Schedule product
presentation function and create an organizational unit to the right of the function. Name it
Sales. As soon as you are finished with your input, the Select object dialog opens.

3. Double-click the Sales object. The new organizational unit is created in the model as an
occurrence of the selected object.

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Your EPC should look like this now:

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3.6 Rename objects

You can change object names directly in the model. If you change a name, all occurrences of the
object in the database are renamed accordingly.
In the following, you will change the name of the Sales organizational unit.

Procedure
1. Click one of the three Sales symbols.

2. Click Rename in the Start tab bar.

3. Enter Distribution and click in the model background.
The name of the organizational unit is now Distribution and all occurrences of the object are
displayed with the new name.

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3.7 Arrange and group objects

Now, you will arrange the symbols in the model.

Procedure
1. Select the adjacent objects CRM system, Find addresses of potential customers and
Distribution. To do so, position the mouse pointer to the left of/above the CRM system
object, press and hold the left mouse button, and drag the mouse pointer to the right of/below
the Distribution object. This completely encloses the adjacent objects CRM system, Find
addresses of potential customers and Distribution within the displayed frame. Now
release the mouse button. The objects are selected.

2. Click Align > Align middle in the Start tab bar.

3. Click Align > Distribute horizontally.

4. Activate the Format tab bar and click Group. You can now move or edit the three
grouped objects together only.
5. Right-click in the model background and select Select > All.
6. Hold down the Ctrl key and successively click the two new occurrences of the Distribution
organizational unit. The symbols are now removed from the selection. Release the Ctrl key.

7. Activate the Start tab bar and click Align > Centered.

8. Click Align > Distribute vertically.

9. Click in the model background to deselect all symbols.
10. Increase the distance between the CRM system application type and the Find addresses of
potential customers function. To move the grouped objects separately, you must first
ungroup them. Activate the Format tab bar and click Group > Ungroup.
11. Right-click in the model background and select Select > All.
12. Hold down the Ctrl key and click CRM system. The object is removed from the selection.
13. Now you can move the selected objects to the right by increments of two gridlines. To do this,
hold down the Shift key and press the right arrow key twice. The selected objects are
moved in line with the grid steps.
14. Click in the model background to deselect all symbols.
15. Arrange the Distribution object occurrences. Right-click one of the object occurrences and
enable Select > Select all of this type. The symbols are selected.

16. Click Align > Align right.

17. Click in the model background to deselect all symbols.
18. Hold down the Ctrl key and successively click Find contact person and the Distribution
organizational unit placed to the right. The symbols are selected.

19. Click Align > Align bottom.

20. Click in the model background to deselect all symbols.

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21. Now align the Schedule product presentation objects and the organizational unit
Distribution to the right of it along a bottom line.
The objects of the model are now arranged as follows:

Tips
 If your model is no longer fully visible in the model window, reduce the size of the model's
appearance. To do this, select the current value in the Size of appearance field of the toolbar
and overwrite it with 80, for example. Press the Enter key.
 To move the model in the model window, right-click in the model background and select
Select > Select all. Click anywhere in the selection, hold down the mouse button, and drag
the model to the relevant position in the model window.

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3.8 Create connections

In the following, you will link the unconnected object of your Customer acquisition model with
another object via a connection.

Procedure

1. Click Toggle connection mode in the toolbar. If the mouse pointer is now located on the
border of an object, connection anchor points are displayed.
2. Move the mouse pointer over the left border of the Distribution organizational unit which is
not yet linked with a connection. A connection anchor point is displayed.
3. Click the anchor point, and move the mouse pointer to the right border of the Find contact
partner function.
4. Clicking the anchor point that appears at the function will connect the two objects.

Tip
The following shape indicates that you are moving the mouse pointer over a target object for
which the method does not allow connections.

This may occur if you attempt to draw a connection from the Launch scheduled event to the
CRM system or Distribution objects, for example.

3.9 Create links

You can link objects in ARIS Architect with Web sites or e-mail addresses via hyperlinks. This
enables you to access Web sites or send e-mails directly from ARIS Architect. You can also link
objects with programs like Microsoft® Excel, Microsoft® Word, or Microsoft® PowerPoint and run
these directly from ARIS Architect.

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3.9.1 Create a program shortcut

To link the CRM system object with a program (e.g., Microsoft® Excel), proceed as follows:

Procedure

1. Click the CRM system object and select Attributes. The Attributes dialog opens.
2. In the tree view, click the System attributes attribute type group.

3. Click in the cell of the Title 1 row and enter the program name (e.g., Microsoft® Excel).
4. Enter the path to the executable program file (e.g., C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE) in the Link 1 cell. You can also click the Browse ( ) button
and navigate to the relevant directory.

5. Click Save to save the attribute changes.

6. Click Close.
7. Click the CRM system object.

8. Click Go to > Link in the Start tab bar.

The linked program is launched.
9. Close the program.

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3.9.2 Create a hyperlink

To link the Distribution object with a Web site, proceed as follows:

Procedure

1. Click an occurrence of the Distribution organizational unit and then click Attributes. The
Attributes dialog opens.
Each row in the table corresponds with an attribute. The name of the Distribution object
refers to the column that contains all of the object's attribute values. The object name is
followed by the language in which the language-dependent attribute values are specified. In
this case, this is English. The values in gray cells cannot be edited. You can change the
column width by clicking a dividing line in the column header, holding down the mouse button
and moving the line.
2. Click the Organizational unit tab on the System attributes attribute type group.

3. Click in the cell of the Title 1 attribute and enter Software AG as the name of the hyperlink.
4. Click the cell of the Link 1 attribute and enter the address www.softwareag.com.

5. Click Save to save the attribute changes.

6. Click Close.

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7. Click an occurrence of the Distribution organizational unit.

8. Click Go to > Link in the Start tab bar. Your Internet browser is launched and the
Software AG Web site opens.
9. Close your Internet browser.
You have created a link for the Distribution object.

3.10 Place attributes

You can display the attributes of objects and connections in your model. Now, you will display the
connection type.

Procedure
1. Select the connection between the CRM system object and the connections between the
Distribution organizational unit and the assigned functions. To do so, press and hold down
the Ctrl key and click the connections one after the other. Then release the Ctrl key.

2. Click Properties in the Start tab bar. The Properties dialog opens.
3. In the tree view, click Attribute placement (connections).
4. Click Add. The Add attributes dialog opens. Specified attributes are marked with a symbol
( ) in the list.

Double-click the Type attribute. The dialog is closed and the attribute is transferred to the
Properties dialog. Since the Type attribute is the only placed attribute, it is already selected.

5. Enable the lower middle check box in the Placement area.

6. Ensure that Centered is selected in the Alignment box.

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7. Click OK. The dialog is closed and the type of the selected connection is displayed as centered
below the connection.

8. Click in the model background to deselect the model items.

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Your model now looks like this:

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3.11 Apply template

You can use templates that you can modify or create yourself to change the appearance of your
models. For example, you can adapt the representation to your corporate design or prepare it for
presentation purposes.
The Standard template is already assigned to your EPC. In the following, you will assign the
Standard (classic) template to the EPC. The template enlarges the objects and brightens the
colors.

Procedure
1. Click in the model background.
2. Activate the Format tab bar.
3. Click Template and select Standard (classic) to assign the template. When you are asked
if the template should to be applied to all occurrences in the current model, click Yes.

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The template is applied to the model.

You can make further changes to the model's appearance. Right-click in the model background
and select Format > Representation.

3.12 Save model

To save your work, click Save. The model is saved in the main group of the Sales and
Marketing database.

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4 Evaluate
This chapter describes how relevant data is output by models.

4.1 Print model

You can configure the print output of the model using the following settings.

4.1.1 Configure header and footer

To add more information to the print output than is contained in the model, you can place data in
the header and footer. In the following, you will display the model name and the current date in
the header of the expression and the page number and Sales and Marketing in the footer.

Procedure

1. Click ARIS > Print > Page setup. The Page setup dialog opens. You can specify all of
the settings for printing the model here.

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2. Ensure that the Header and footer entry is selected on the Selection tab.

3. Change Global settings to Local settings. To do this, click the down arrow in the first input
box, and select Local settings. All other input boxes will become available for you to specify
your settings.
4. Click in the left Header box.
5. Double-click in the list Model and database attributes on the entry Name (Model,
AT_Name) to transfer it to the header.
6. Click in the right field of the header and then double-click Date in the Other attributes list.
7. Click in the left field of the footer and double-click Page in the Other attributes list.
8. Click in the right field of the footer and enter Sales and Marketing.
9. Enable the Separate headers and footers with lines check box.
10. Click OK.
Your settings are displayed in the print preview.

Tip

You can hide the header and footer in the printout and then show it again by clicking the
Insert headers/footers icon in the Print preview dialog.

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4.1.2 Specify print scale and color

You will now set the print size and color settings for the model.

Procedure
1. Click ARIS > Print > Print preview.

2. If you don't want your model to be printed in color, click in the dialog toolbar on Black
and white. The print preview and the print output both show the model in black and white.

3. Click Fit to page, to optimize the print scale. This action also changes the print page
display in the model window.

Tip
You can align the model on a print page by moving it. To do this, exit print preview by clicking
Close. Right-click in the model background and select Select > Select all. Click in the selection,
hold down the mouse button, and drag the model to the relevant position. Use the print page
minor tick marks to monitor the position of the model. Finally, click in the model background to
deselect all symbols.

4.1.3 Start printing

You can check your settings before you start printing with the Print preview dialog. The model
appears as it will when printed.

Procedure
1. If you have already closed the Print preview dialog, click ARIS > Print > Print preview
again.
2. Check your settings and make the required changes.

3. Click Print. The Print dialog opens.

4. Specify the required printer settings.
5. Click OK. The model is printed on the selected printer.
6. Close the print preview.

Tip
To print a model from the model window directly without a print preview beforehand, click File >
Print.

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4.2 Evaluate model contents

Report-based evaluations enable you to output the contents of user databases and models or
object descriptions as a text. In the following, you will evaluate the contents of the Customer
acquisition model.

Procedure
1. Activate the Evaluate tab bar.

2. Click Start report. The Report Wizard guides you through the relevant steps.

3. Select Output objects in the sequence of modeling (model graph) in the Report box.
4. Click Next.
5. Retain the settings for the language and the evaluation filter.
6. Select Rich Text Format (*.rtf) as the output format.
7. Enter a name for the report and specify where it is to be stored.
8. If necessary, enable the Display result check box.
9. Click Finish.
10. After starting the report, the Select output options dialog is displayed. Click OK to accept
the settings.

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The report is created and output in your RTF editor.

11. Close the RTF Editor.

You just carried out your first model evaluation.

4.3 Close model

You have created and evaluated the model. Now you can close the model.

Procedure
1. Click Close on the model tab

2. Click Yes, if you want to save your changes.

The model is saved and the model window is closed.

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