BG

Hello.

I want to change the owner of a (EPC) function. That particular "is technically responsible for" relationship has only been used in the active diagram, and I want to completely remove it from my repository... so it has no chance of getting brought back up in a later modelling work by mistake (e.g. via object > relationship > display in model) BUT

  1. Deleting via "del" keystroke does remove the occurence from the active diagram, but not from the model nor the function object relationship (per function > details > relationship: see deleted-from-diagram-but-not-model)
  2. Delete option is not available from the details panel (see delete-option-not-available)
  3. Dragging the source connector of the existing owner relationship away from old object and to the new object creates a new (definition copy ?) relationship, instead of altering the existing one. (see duplicate-from-moving-source)

How can I (easily) make a relationship (and any object, for that interests me too) completely disappear from my repository in ARIS cloud ?  If it doesn't exist yet, binding CTRL+DEL would be an intuitive option.

I did not find any such info in the community online videos or documentation, but please kindly point me to an accurate online user manual if it's already explained elsewhere.

Thanks for your pointers,
Bertrand.

 

PS: as a sidenote I find behaviour 3 here above a bit borderline... understandable from a technical perspective but quite misleading if the said relationship is not displayed in any other model. And even then: ARIS should rather display a warning/choice, instead of creating rubbish in the models.

by M. Zschuckelt
Posted on Fri, 12/10/2021 - 10:38

Hello Bertrand,

select one of the objects participating in the connection and go to the Properties panel and select the "Relationships" tab. There you will see the list of all connections the object has to other objects with their type and connected object name. Select the relationship you want to delete and select "Delete".

The other option is to regularly clean up your database. You could set up a scheduled report which figuratively "sweeps your workshop floor" from all the debris left behind in the modelling like connections and objects not having any occurrences in models any more. Most customers have such a report running nightly or weekly. You can also trigger this manually from ARIS Architect, if you have the privilege "Database reorganization". In the context menu of the database you select "reorganize database".

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by Bertrand G Author
Posted on Mon, 12/13/2021 - 10:20

Thanks M. Zschuckelt for your answer. 

The delete action of the details > properties > relationships tab was unfortunately greyed out (not available) for that particular relationship, even though I created myself the repository, the association, and got "Architect" rights enabled for that user... must have done something wrong with the ACL I guess.  (see aris-deep-delete-edit-relationship_delete-option-not-available.png)

Good (or strange) news is that this morning that 'delete' action was available and had indeed the wanted behaviour of a clean (deep) delete and not just hiding it from current diagram.

 

Thanks for the pointer to the report as well, I'll have a look if there's a way to use that report to improve our modelling practices to not let debris occur in the first place.

 

Still would be interested in having a keystroke bind with "deep delete" action, could be either "ctrl+delete", or simply "backspace", as to not change the behaviour of the currently established "delete" key removing smthg from current diagram without deleting from model, which totally makes sense. Where's the place to request such a feature (maybe along a warning dialog on first use ever)?

Bertrand.

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