Is it possible to add a method to the ARIS Business Publisher?

Posted by Benni Messmer

Posted on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 09:53 in Reports & Macros

Hi all,

i have a problem. I created a report with the wizard and then i customized the source code with some IF queries. The report works in ARIS Business Architect but not in ARIS Business Publisher. There the report runs through but the result is incorrect.

The problem seems to be the method getActive() (Report class Occ) that i used in the IF queries. It seems that this method is available in ARIS Business Architect but not in ARIS Business Publisher.

Is there a possibility to add the method getActive() to ARIS Business Publisher or has anybody here another idea to solve my problem?

At the moment we use ARIS 7.1 but we will upgrade to ARIS 7.2 next week. Is the method available in ARIS Business Publisher 7.2?

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Benni

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by Edwin Verstraeten

Posted on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 10:03

Hi Benni,

You can't add methods to the business publisher. You can know in advance whether a method is available in BP though. If you look into the script help, for methods is mentioned if it is available for BP. If it's not mentioned, it's most likely not available.

Best regards,

Edwin

by Benni Messmer Author

Posted on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 10:32

Thanks a lot for your quick response. Do you have an idea or a workaround to solve the problem?

Because I'm at my wit's end.

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Benni

by Edwin Verstraeten

Posted on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 11:26

The only option i can think of is setting an attribute on a connection to the inactive element (this could be done by a macro at model close) and query the value of that attribute rather than querying the inactive state of the occurrence.

Best regards,

Edwin