Ingest Data and Auto Update BPM Diagrams and Other objects

Hi,

Yes, the ARIS Repository API can update attributes and add objects and connections to an existing model. However, it has limitations for diagram updates, particularly around occurrences and layout, so I would check the exact changes you need before choosing it for this use case.

I would recommend having a custom ARIS report script which would do the auto updating of relevant attributes, connections and model occurrences. Any logic can be implemented using the report which can be scheduled to run, ingest the data from external systems and reflect the changes in ARIS Repository.

Since the source data is very static and doesn't change that often, I would go with this solution and schedule the report to run maybe once every day or similar.

Best regards,
Luka.

Thank you for the information. We were under the assumption that only API has the ability to ingest data from the external system. The requirement is a small change. We have an existing BPM diagram that contain list of finance controls ( name and description). Whenever a new control is added or removed , we would get an updated source file. The ask was more about automatically updating the new controls in the existing diagram .

Currently its all done manually.

You can tap into external data from ARIS reports. The NetUtils are helpful for this.

• You can use createNetworkFile if the new source file is available from a shared drive (assuming you're hosting on-premise and the shared drive is accessible by the ARIS Server through WebDAV or something similar).
• Or you can use getConnectionService to do a REST GET request if the file is available through a HTTP GET request from some web server (before sending the request you can set authentication parameters for the request if the file access is protected).
• sftpGet could be used if the source file is accessible through a SFTP server.