Creating a combined data type attribute

by Dr. Ivo Velitchkov in group ARIS Support
Posted: 2009-06-26
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Is there a way to create a combined data type attributes. Now ARIS allows boolean, integer, data, time etc but combined type like those for costs cannot be created or it's not obvious how. Any ideas how to solve this?

Regards

Ivo

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by Mr. Jens Lauer on Fri, 2009/06/26 - 4:15pm

Hi Ivo,
It seems that this is currently not possible in ARIS.
But as a workaround you can create two user defined attributes:

One to specify the "amount"
One to specify the "unit"

Let's make an example:

To create attributes for defining costs you would create one attribute called cost of type floating point number. To specify the currency you can create another attribute of type "Values" and enter the currencies that should be supported.

To group the attributes belonging together you could use an own attribute group as subgroup of an existing group.
I hope that helps!

Regards
Jens

by Dr. Ivo Velitchkov on Fri, 2009/06/26 - 4:25pm

Thank you, Jens! Well, if there is no other way then I will go with the two-attribute approach.