I populated our repository initially from Excel using the import/export report. It was barely worth it in our case, because it took so much trial and error (I had relationships, attributes, applications, organizations, functions already defined in Microsoft Access).
Depending on your case, consider a hybrid approach where you only utilize the aspect of the import report that includes only objects and attributes. Then, you can create your IT Architecture matrices from the objects in the library. If you don't have attributes, then this gets real simple: just right click a group or model and choose create object. The dialog box allows you to paste in multiple, and in your case you just choose the object/symbol type of Architecture element/tier.
If you have perhaps over 200 objects AND lots of attributes, I would invest the time to import them as objects. But, in theory you should be able to use the import/export report to create the IT Architecture mapping/matrix.
Thomas Gathings on
I populated our repository initially from Excel using the import/export report. It was barely worth it in our case, because it took so much trial and error (I had relationships, attributes, applications, organizations, functions already defined in Microsoft Access).
Depending on your case, consider a hybrid approach where you only utilize the aspect of the import report that includes only objects and attributes. Then, you can create your IT Architecture matrices from the objects in the library. If you don't have attributes, then this gets real simple: just right click a group or model and choose create object. The dialog box allows you to paste in multiple, and in your case you just choose the object/symbol type of Architecture element/tier.
If you have perhaps over 200 objects AND lots of attributes, I would invest the time to import them as objects. But, in theory you should be able to use the import/export report to create the IT Architecture mapping/matrix.