do you know this moments: You've been working with a tool for a long time and suddenly you discover a feature that makes your life so much easier and that you've never seen before?
Maybe you feel the same after reading this post. If you are modeling with ARIS, you surely know this situation. You are talking to business departments to collect information that are relevant to your process landscape or enterprise architecture in ARIS. They may give you links to internal web pages or wikis where, for example, application lists with versions, license information, etc. are maintained. Or you may receive a Word document from HR with role descriptions or Excel spreadsheets with tabular process descriptions. As a modeler, you will gratefully take this information and eventually enter it into ARIS one by one with a lot of effort - of course you want to build up your single source of truth.
But there is an easier way. Since a couple of months there is "Create objects", with which you can easily copy-paste this data in bulk as objects including the associated attributes into ARIS. You want to know how this works in all details? Then have a look at this video in the know section.
Available in all editions from ARIS Elements to Enterprise! Have fun!
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by Caspar Jans
Posted on Fri, 02/26/2021 - 10:12
Hi Tom, I think this is a very powerful feature and lowers the threshold for content creation in ARIS significantly. This is the kind of developments that will keep ARIS relevant for our customers. Love it!
Though it is a powerful feature, there is a risk that users are creating new definitions of existing objects. It would be useful for users who are making libraries for reuse, but less for users who are making process models for example. It would be nice to link user groups to enable this functionality.
I recommend to limit this risk by having write permissions for the different models and a governance for submitting objects to the libraries. So owners of the library should know what they run into, if they use the feature. Others should not be able to write to the library. If they do so elsewhere, they need to follow the governance procedure to have the objects submitted to the library.
I have a question: When using the tool in enterprise Proces Connect, I am editing a model and then pasting a 4 column spreadsheet into the model. When selecting the Attributes, on the 4th column which contains URL links, I can't see the atribute "Link 1" atriibute in the dropdown list of attributes to select from. I know that the object type that I am wanting to create has the attribute available on it, but the Create Objects tool doesn't seem to allow it to be used. How can I make the attribute b available in the dropdown so I can selected it ?
You replied to a post which is 2 years old. Not many people would then notice your reply with a new question. Therefore, I suggest you create a new post with your question.
