Auto Indexing/Arrangement/Sorting of symbols within a Model ARIS BA

Yes, what abount arranging objects into others ?

Example: Marco process that contains processes

Thanks

Yes, what abount arranging objects into others ?

Example: Marco process that contains processes

Thanks

Can't wait until you post the directions on how to do this. This has been a missing feature in ARIS for a long time. I will use this immediatley and often.

Yassine -- Adnan is referring to models serving as inventory of Systems / Software / Hardware / Process, etc. and hence you will not have the scenario of having objects within same objects in such model.

Adnan -- While I understand that these inventory models are possible, I not clear why & when you create these simple inventory models -- instead of having these objects grouped by some other characteristics (like domain, for instance) in that model? Can you throw some light..

@  Mr. Yassine Mahlaoui   

If you can illustrate by attaching some screenshot then it would really help us to understand your requirement.

Yes of course

Here it is, I'm doing this manually right now

I Hope there is a solution to do it automaticlly

@ Mr. Shankar Ganesh

To keep thing simple,  we can always refer to UMG database. 

Go to Entry Model --> IT System and open model (sorted by alphabets)

Imagine, if someone has to manually create this model and update it from time to time, just imagine the horror, if for some reason any application name is changed. then he is in really big trouble.

Nice(visually attractive) and Clean(sorted) Publisher Output:

Stakeholder generally uses publisher output to click and click and click to drill down further... It would be useful as a modeler to provide some kind of inventory of your applications/softwares/databases/servers so that they can visually locate them within a model. This model should be assigned to entry model of your organization.

Auto Indexing:

Your idea can be applied to auto-index the inventory objects based upon domain or any other attribute value. But I have commonly seen to use alphabets as indexing the inventory objects.

Shankar,

I use these quite a lot when bringing in IT objects from other source systems like a CMDB or a simple spreadsheet. I may load 100's or even 1000's of objects which are available to be used in other models but have not been used yet. If you are running Reorganize on a regular basis any objects not currenlty in a model will get deleted. It is fairly common practice to select all of the imported objects and put them in an "Inventory" model to keep them from being deleted by Reorg.

Rick

Excellent Point.....

Just testing the script on lower version of ARIS BA....macro works well on 7.10.3xxxx and I am now making it backward compatible with 7.1.0.1xxxxx

Will be released soon......

Thanks Rick.. I agree the inventory model is really useful in the scenario you have mentioned.

@ Mr. adnan shahab

Is it possible to make a script for the arrangement posted.

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for macro see the post here

nice macro! It would be helpful to add some parameters to the marco, like:

1) maximum number of columns: if the maximum number is reached, a new row for the same letter is created. For example: If there are 8 objects starting with the letter A and the maximum is set to 5, then there are 2 rows for the letter A: the first row with 5 objects and the second row with 3 objects.

2) index starting char: if all objects are using a prefix in their name (e.g. OBJ_xxxxxxx) the prefix should be ignored when indexing the objects. In the example with the prefix "OBJ_" the indexing should start at character number 5, not 1.

3) minimum vertical and horizontal space between symbols

4) color and style of line between letters

5) additional space before and after the lines

6) style of index letter on the left side

And is it possible to publish an editable version of the macro for individual configuration?

Adnan,

I just used this maco on an Application System Type Diagram. Some apps have full names and others have accronyms in all caps. The macros seems to sort all of the capital letters in from of all of the lower case letters. For example AZZ comes before Aaa. Not a big deal as it doesn't occur all that often but thought I would pass it along.

Thanks again for all of the great macros!

Rick

Yes, you are right. The sorting is based upon what they called it "LEXICOGRAPHIC Order".
I think what you want is something like: Compares two symbols names lexicographically but ignoring case differences.
This can be achieved as well. I am working on a more generic symbol arrangement, which will be released soon.