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ARIS - SHARE YOUR IDEAS
How can we make ARIS better?
Status Open for voting
Created by Michel Benard
Created on Mar 22, 2022

Add automatically arrows to Archimate access relationships

  • 1) create an archimate collaboration diagram
  • 2) in this diagram :
  • 2a) create an application component (A)
  • 2b) create a data object (B)
  • 2c) create another data object (C)
  • 3) Create a connection between A and B of type access, add the attribute "access type" = '"read" to the relationship
  • 4) Create a connection between A and C of type access, add the attribute "access type" '"create" to the relationship
  • 5) The diagram shows two dotted lines between A---B and A--C
  • 6) but to reflect the relationship semantics the diagram should show t relationships with arrows like : A <-- B , and A --> C

See Archimate 3.x specifications
http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/archimate3-doc/chap05.html , section 5.2.2


You can still manually add the arrows by modifying the connections apperances but :

  1. you have to do it by hand
  2. one could add an arrow in the wrong direction, that is an arrows that contradicts the relationship semantics , say for example you'll see A --> B (application A writes to data object B) in the diagram and have an access type "read"


Brainstorm ID 6767
Created on Brainstorm 02/27/2019 12:09 AM