Hello all
We have to integrate more and more Express models into the relational repositories and this is not easy. We're thinking about setting up a Governance process including the integration tasks below:
Once the import is done, there is (A) the concern about the symbol look. It is not as simple as applying a template to adjust to the classic platform style, as this reset the object's size. It seems we have to change the object appearance for each set of objects with the "Select all of this kind", being careful about treating some symbols differently (i.e. process interfaces should not change into function).
Then comes (B), the task of establishing the correct relations between objects, as Express does not provide this capability (i.e. "actor x" is resp for "function y").
Next thing (C) is to merge new imported objects with existing ones. Hard work, gracioulsy supported by the "Find objects with the same name" and "Consolidate" functionality, available within Business Architect.
One more thing we do is (D): convert some EPC into row-display (swim-lane), as this is our convention for Level 3. "Generate model" helps doing this.
My question: is there any standard scripts or macros (or simply tips!) that we could use to simplify these tasks ?
Best regards to the community!
Tue, 04/05/2011 - 19:46
Well, "it has more to it than meets the eye".
Report scripts out of the box are listed in the doc "Evalution in ARIS".
"Replace symbol types" works on the whole database or for selected objects.
"Format models" applies layout templates and other visual effects.
If you have a consolidated model baseline you could use bool attribute to mark your master objects and run "Consolidate objects" after you imported new content from Aris Express.
Unfortunately there is no real support in Architect for your task (B) assigning semantics to connections. With Aris Toolset you had a function to transform untyped objects from a casual model into meaningful objects of the Aris method.
Fantastic! I've already built a object's occurrence appearance transformation script to translate from Express (at the database level). And yes, "consolidate objects" is the way to go to merge with master objects using a boolean. The difficulty is a lot less than I expected to merge the diagrams.
Thanks a lot.
