Have you lost yourself in a big process model? Are you not able to find objects within the opened process, which you just have modeled one day ago? Or are you still in search of all objects, which have been created by a certain colleague?
If so, then you will like the new find functionality within ARIS Business Designer. It enables you to search for text and highlight it inside the current model with only a few mouse clicks.
Find Model Items
Let´s have a closer look at the latest version of ARIS Business Designer. A new text box with the label "Find" has been added to the designer toolbar.
Click into the text box or just use the well-known shortcut for searching .
Then type in the text you want to search for (for example the name of an object, the name of a creator, the date of object generation or something else).
By pressing the arrow buttons next to the text field or just hitting the return key , the text will be highlighted inside the Attributes Tab. And, in case the attribute is visible in the diagram, it will be highlighted within Business Designer as well.
It is possible to search for any text occurrence within your diagram, including attributes of objects (for example the name or description attribute), free-form text elements and model attributes. If the attribute is not visible at all, that means if it is hidden in the Attributes Tab, then it becomes visible there for highlighting.
In order to find more occurrences of the searched text, you can use the arrow buttons , the keystroke or the shortcut (or to highlight a previous occurrence).
Hints
Edit Highlighted text
If an object is highlighted by the find functionality, one additional mouse click on the selected attribute (press alternatively) starts the edit mode for the attribute with the highlighted string preselected.
Find Selected Text
If an object or attribute is already selected either in the Attributes Tab or within ARIS Business Designer, you can use to paste the text automatically into the find text box. This works for any selected text in edit mode as well.
Clear Highlighted Text
Press to clear all highlightings in Attributes Tab and ARIS Business Designer.
As you can see, it is very easy and convenient to search the content of your current model.
Note: This article describe a feature introduced or extended with ARIS Platform 7.1 Service Release 5. See this post for links to similar articles.