Anyone knows how to create a new object from scratch and assign attributes to it?

Hi Konstantinos

One manual way is to copy Excel cells and paste into an ARIS model, and then manipulate the attributes with F8, also with copy/paste by row from Excel. 

If you want to do it by program, here is one recipe. I generally take input from an Excel file usually resulting from an SAP extract to synchronize the data with ARIS.

Start from a group, create a model, create an object definition, and create object occurences...

Example:

var nLocale = Context.getSelectedLanguage()

var modeltype = 13        // EPC

var objtype = 22             // Function

var symbolnum = 335    // a function's symbol in the config

var group = devdb.RootGroup()     // Main group in this example

var model = group.CreateModel(modeltype, "New model", nLocale)

var oObjDef = group.CreateObjDef (objtype, "New Function", nLocale)

var obj = model.createObjOcc(symbolnum, oObjDef, 50,50)

To set object's attributes,  locate the object and use the Attribute().setValue() like this: 

obj.Attribute(Constants.AT_xxxxx, nLocale).setValue("value")

For custom attributes, use "UserDefinedAttributeTypeNum(GUID)".

Hope this helps !!  Thierry