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We recently upgraded to ARIS 9.7 from 7.2 and it seems that there is no end to our problems. The most recent and most baffling one is the curious case of the Visio Import (which BTW worked great in 7.2). Our business stakeholders use the EPC template in Visio to document process flows and save the file as a Visio XML (.vdx). This is then imported into ARIS using the Visio Import feature where it recognizes the .vdx file and creates a model. This worked like a charm in 7.2 and it created an EPC model for us.

After the upgrade to 9.7, the import feature seems to have a mind of its own. We are using the same .VDX files in EPC template. But, when it does the import, for some strange reason, ARIS 9.7 converts them into the model type - BPMN Collaboration Diagram (2.0) and obviously it garbles up the whole thing. I have even tried to then convert the imported BPMN to EPC format, but the resulting model is nowhere close to what it originally was in VISIO (obviously). I have looked into the administrative options looking for a configuration which specifies the default IMPORT model type, but to no avail. There seems to be nowhere that I can specify what model type should be used for imports. Has anyone else come across this? Is there a way to specify the model type while importing visio files? Please help.

by Francois Du Toit
Posted on Mon, 02/09/2015 - 14:28

Hi Venky,

Please chek your visio import settings in the script section. Maybe someone configured it on ARIS 7 and this was not done after the upgrade to 9...



Kind regards,

Francois

bpmutils.com

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by Ankit Malik
Posted on Wed, 03/04/2015 - 12:36

What are the key challenges to Import Visio to ARIS  (as per my understanding should be.. loss of data, manual creating connections or defining relationships between objects ? What if i have to create a collaboration model then in the case is it advisable to direct import Visio or modeling a process from the scratch please help me with your suggestions ? 

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by Stefano Pulliero
Posted on Wed, 01/30/2019 - 16:37

Hi all, we wat to try to use visio to import organizational model in ARIS 10. Can you give us a sample of a *.VDX file?

Best regards

Stefano Pulliero

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by M. Zschuckelt
Posted on Wed, 01/30/2019 - 16:56

Hi Stefano,

replying to a very old thread is not such a good idea, because of the visibility of your new question.

With importing from Visio the only valid sample to test it is your own Visio source file, because Visio is only a drawing. You have to add the interpretation with the configuration of the import in the mapping.xml file.

Consider that importing from Visio is not feasible, if you want to have the Visio source to be the master "model". You cannot repeat a Visio import, because each time you get new objects. Visio import is only for one-time-effort large scale imports, when you finally want to get rid of maintaining the Visio drawings. If the total amount of data imported is small, it may be more efficient importing the data via Excel and doing the model layout manually. This way you can import more data (descriptions, identifiers, etc.) on the organizational objects and save time on that end.

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