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Created by Zdenek Kocourek
Created on May 13, 2022

ARIS Connect Transformation Items based on Default symbols runs to unwanted state and have to be improved

Minifactsheets and Connect portal Search do not display for all cases the transformation item properly. It runs into 404 error in SR 17, this will be improved and replaced by configurable message in minifactsheets in new SR 18. This happens in case the e.g. Function and Control transformation items are based on same object type (22), and distinquished thanks of Default symbols. This works only if Default symbol is allowed in Filter relevant for ARIS Connect publishing (in DB settings). When narrow filter is applied it will result in this state and Viewer (user) is confused why in some cases it works as expected and some not.

The new solution could be:

  1. the Retrieving of the Default symbol from ABS will check if symbol is valid, if not it will use Default symbol option available in ARIS Architect [According to ARIS Method], if not still successfull than Display the configurable message

  2. the Retrieving of the Default symbol from ABS will check if symbol is valid, if not it will use Enter method for retriveing this info, if not still successfull than Display the configurable message

  3. in XML put one more property in Default symbol property - mark one of transformation item as fallback, so if the retrieving of default symbol is not successfull -> this will be used

The same issue occurs in case of Transformation items based on Attribute filtering. The not maintain case nor run into 404 error. Mainly because of We are not able to adress the unmaintained Attr value - this option is missing, so if you will use attr filtering you have always bug waiting for content consumers :)